Reductio Quotes
- Reductio ad absurdum, which Euclid loved so much, is one of a mathematician's finest weapons. It is a far finer gambit than any chess play:… — G. H. Hardy
- The housewife is an unpaid worker in her husband's house in return for the security of being a permanent employee: hers is the reductio ad… — Germaine Greer
- The obvious reductio ad absurdum is Holocaust deniers: Should their perspective be provided, for "balance," any time someone writes about the Holocaust? — Chris Mooney
- If God existed (a question concerning which Jubal maintained a meticulous intellectual neutrality) and if He desired to be worshiped (a proposition which Jubal found… — Robert A. Heinlein