reason Quotes

The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.

The man of science is a poor philosopher.

As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.

No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong.

The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.

I shall never believe that God plays dice with the world.

Small is the number of people who see with their eyes and think with their minds.

If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is natures way.

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in the way in which the man of practical wisdom would determine it.