Rationality Quotes

"I shall not commit the fashionable stupidity of regarding everything I cannot explain as a fraud" "I'm against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world" "Science replaces private prejudice with publicly verifiable evidence" "It is absolutely safe to say that if you meet somebody who claims not to believe in evolution, that person is ignorant, stupid or insane (or wicked, but I’d rather not consider that)" "The middle of the road is all of the usable surface. The extremes, right and left, are in the gutters" "To him who looks upon the world rationally, the world in its turn presents a rational aspect. The relation is mutual." "By all means let’s be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out." "It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion" "When scientific evidence is given, reasoning is paramount." "Science brings us closer to the truth than does any other human activity." "It is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatever for supposing it true" "The pendulum of the mind alternates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong" "No person ever strayed away from sensible thinking who took time to think." "The rules of common sense are the rules of truth" "Decision-making is the heart of administration, and rationality is at the heart of decision-making" "It is not what the man of science believes that distinguishes him, but how and why he believes it." "It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this." "The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds."