reason Quotes

A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers.

Knowledge is true opinion.

I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning.

To be sure I must; and therefore I may assume that your silence gives consent.

The very essence of instinct is that it's followed independently of reason.

I have steadily endeavoured to keep my mind free so as to give up any hypothesis, however much beloved (and I cannot resist forming one on every subject), as soon as facts are shown to be opposed to it.

My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts.

A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, - a mere heart of stone.

We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe, nay whole systems of universes, to be governed by laws, but the smallest insect, we wish to be created at once by special act.

I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world.