Rationality Quote by Peter Ackroyd Download Open image ““Well,' said Hawksmoor. 'It's a theory and a theory can do no harm.”” — Peter Ackroyd ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Rationality Science Theory
“I’m not going to force some theory on a mystery and make foolishness of it, just because that is what people who talk about… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
“A theory is like medicine or government: often useless, sometimes necessary, always self-serving and, on occasion, lethal. It needs to be used with care,… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
“This is why theory can be so valuable: it can explain what will happen, even before you experience it.” — Clayton M. Christensen Copy Share Image
“Do not be afraid of the word 'theory'. Yes, it can sound dauntingly abstract at times, and in the hands of some writers can… — Richard Howells Copy Share Image
“Without clues, we search in the wrong directions. Without evidence, a theory is not reliable.” — Carlo Rovelli Copy Share Image
“Clues put us on the right path toward a correct theory. Strong evidence is that which subsequently allows us to trust whether the theory… — Carlo Rovelli Copy Share Image
“Theory is like a book. It's full of meaningless words, a few want to read it and where stays the movie.” — Tim Goossens Copy Share Image
“You can't learn what you're unable to understand but a theory is infeasible until you won't need it.” — Robin Sacredfire Copy Share Image
“There is no theory that is not a fragment, carefully prepared, of some autobiography.” — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
“Theory has all too often been a zoo in which we cage the wild beasts of violence that inhabit our worlds. We then gaze… — Carolyn Nordstrom Copy Share Image
If I did only one thing at a time I'd think I was wasting my time. If, for example, I only wrote novels I… — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
I believe that the gods themselves are frightened of the world which they have fashioned. — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
“A woman is a deep Ditch, said he, her House inclines to Death and her Paths unto the Devil” — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
I don't know if I have a voice of my own. I don't see me being an important person with something to say. I… — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
The ordinary routines of life are never chronicled by the historian, but they make up almost the whole of experience. — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
“I believe now that there can be no real sense of loss or seperation without the recognition of death; we were too young to… — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
I don't find myself interesting as a person and the details I find boring, quite frankly. You could sum it up in a few… — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
Rioting has always been a London tradition. It has been since the early Middle Ages. There's hardly a spate of years that goes by… — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
“absinthe removes the bitter taste of failure and grants me strange visions which are charming principally because they cannot be written down. Only in… — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
“Those in their snug Bed-chambers may call the Fears of Night meer Bugbears, but their Minds have not pierced into the Horror of the… — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
In so far as I have any beliefs, I suppose I'm like that old Peggy Lee song, 'Is That All There Is?' I want… — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
“dyer. (Looking at him scornfully) So that is why Wits swarm like Egypt's Frogs. If I were a Writer now, I would wish to… — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
Truth is much too complicated to allow anything but approximations. — John von Neumann Copy Share Image
I regard individuality as the most precious trait we have, because without it there is no creativity, there is no consciousness, there is no… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
“When it comes to the Big Questions in Life, the preponderance of evidence should be our best advisor to inform our Beliefs. The companion… — Brian Goedken Copy Share Image
“When a human being develops an argument, when a human being attempts not only to think but to speak with precision, he or she… — Helen DeWitt Copy Share Image
“It's no use preaching to the choir. The rulebook, evidence, and good, old-fashioned fact-checking – let alone human decency – have been thrown out… — H.M. Forester Copy Share Image
“Once your fairytale gets shattered multiple times, life will finally paint reality in its place.” — VaeEshia Ratcliff-Davis Copy Share Image
“the thing about fear is that it defies the laws of rationality. It creates its own laws instead” — David Levithan Copy Share Image
I like [Barak] Obama. I like him. So how far does rationality help to persuade anybody? You know, I'm not so sure. — George Saunders Copy Share Image
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