reason Quotes

A good theory explains a lot but postulates little.

A good scientific theory is one which is falsifiable, which has not been falsified.

The word 'belief' is a difficult thing for me. I don't believe. I must have a reason for a certain hypothesis. Either I know a thing, and then I know it - I don't need to believe it.

The pendulum of the mind alternates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.

We are too much accustomed to attribute to a single cause that which is the product of several, and the majority of our controversies come from that.

Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time.

I think there is only one quality worse than hardness of heart and that is softness of head.

I love argument, I love debate. I don't expect anyone just to sit there and agree with me, that's not their job.

Evil is the product of the ability of humans to make abstract that which is concrete.

One of the things being in politics has taught me is that men are not a reasoned or reasonable sex.