reason Quotes

If the experiments which I urge be defective, it cannot be difficult to show the defects; but if valid, then by proving the theory, they must render all objections invalid.

The best and safest method of philosophizing seems to be first to inquire diligently into the properties of things, and establishing those properties by experiments, and then to proceed more slowly to hypotheses for the explanation of them.

Nothing can be divided into more parts than it can possibly be constituted of. But matter (i.e. finite) cannot be constituted of infinite parts.

The Ignis Fatuus is a vapor shining without heat.

There are some ideas so wrong that only a very intelligent person could believe in them.

Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.

All political thinking for years past has been vitiated in the same way. People can foresee the future only when it coincides with their own wishes, and the most grossly obvious facts can be ignored when they are unwelcome.

So much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot.

Oceania was at war with Eurasia; therefore Oceania had always been at war with Eurasia.

Common sense is the genius of humanity.