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Irrational Quotes by Alan Lightman
- In this acausal world, scientists are helpless. Their predictions become postdictions- Their equations become justifications, their logic, illogic. Scientists turn reckless and mutter like gamblers…
- -But rational thoughts lead only to rational thoughts, whereas irrational thoughts lead to new experiences.
More Irrational Quotes
- Rational thinking is an important aspect of human nature, but we have imagination, we have ambition, we have irrational fear, we are… — Ha-Joon Chang
- Lawyers have a way of seeing that sets them apart from the rest of us. In some way this special vision makes… — Thane Rosenbaum
- Fear of serious injury alone cannot justify oppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It is the… — Louis D. Brandeis
- O Woe to his blinded soul! Saying this, he as it were said to God: "Thou Thyself are guilty, because the woman… — Symeon the New Theologian
- A real man does not think of victory or defeat. He plunges recklessly towards an irrational death. By doing this, you will… — Nabeshima Naoshige
- Last year a friend went dark in a nervous city alone, the sea flashing against his glasses, the sea sorted out at… — Sylvia Plath
- The transfinite numbers are in a sense the new irrationalities [ ... they] stand or fall with the finite irrational numbers. — Georg Cantor
- Stripping away the irrational, the illogical, and the impossible, I am left with atheism. I can live with that. — Mark Twain