reason Quotes

Part of the reason there's an injunction to the truth, for example, is that if you're in a circumstance of extreme uncertainty, your best weapon, let's say, or your best tool or your best defense is the truth, because it keeps things simpler.

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

If there existed no external means for dimming their consciences, one-half of the men would at once shoot themselves, because to live contrary to one's reason is a most intolerable state, and all men of our time are in such a state.

I don't do formal debates, because formal debates where you have two people up on a stage in equal status, and each of them is given 20 minutes to give their point of view, and then 10 minutes for a rebuttal, or whatever, that creates the illusion that you really do have here two equal points of view of equal scientific standing.

A guided missile corrects its trajectory as it flies, homing in, say, on the heat of a jet plane's exhaust. A great improvement on a simple ballistic shell, it still cannot discriminate particular targets. It could not zero in on a designated New York skyscraper if launched from as far away as Boston.

I think, fundamentally, open source does tend to be more stable software. It's the right way to do things.

Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.

I don't try to be a threat to MicroSoft, mainly because I don't really see MS as competition. Especially not Windows-the goals of Linux and Windows are simply so different.

I think it's smart for the United States to have some kind of tax revenue for international earnings - if that tax were reasonable.

The Christian religion not only was at first attended with miracles, but even at this day cannot be believed by any reasonable person without one.