Quote by Michel de Montaigne

“But being rational about it didn't cure it.”

— Colum McCann

“It was the dominance of the choice to rat out the other that drove the group to a deficient outcome. The individuals were rational,…

— Rich Jolly

“To them it’s like deliberately causing the conception of a child who is so defective that it must die in infancy. ”

— Octavia E. Butler

“Speaking as a mother of unborn generations, I'm against it.”

— Neil Gaiman Terry Pratchett

“Instead of promoting healthy development, they unconsciously undermine it, often with the belief that they are acting in their child’s best interest.”

— Susan Forward

“I am convinced that natural selection has been the main but not exclusive means of modification.”

— Charles Darwin

“Conceit is not necessarily a disease. It’s more of a weakness.”

— Bob Dylan

“It took the full force of human genetics to bring sanity to the study of madness.”

— Siddhartha Mukherjee

“Everyone endeavours to eliminate through the other individual his own weaknesses, defects, and deviations from the type, lest they be perpetuated or even grow…

— Alain de Botton

“It seemed humans, the scientifically minded ones at least, were either tempting death or trying to prolong life. Surely that was an indication of…

— Kady Cross

“if people begin by thinking rationally, the danger is that they may end by acting rationally also.”

— Grant Allen

“a rationalist isn't ever certain of anything”

— Eliezer Yudkowsky