#reason

The scientific spirit is of more value than its products, and irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

#harmful #held #irrationally #may #more

For these reasons, women tend to rely more heavily on Social Security in their retirement than do men. ↗

— Steve Israel

#men #more #reasons #rely #retirement

Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart. ↗

— Steve Jobs

#avoid #best #best way #die #follow

And we've got a toaster and everything. So there is no reason for the wedding. ↗

— Karl Pilkington

#everything #got #no reason #reason #toaster

The generous Critic fann'd the Poet's fire, And taught the world with reason to admire. ↗

— Edgar Allan Poe

#critic #fire #generous #poet #reason

One of the reasons I continue to speak out is that the solutions to the counterterrorism problem involve other parts of the national security community - especially other elements of the Department of Defense, State, FBI, Homeland Security and the staff. ↗

— John Poindexter

#continue #counterterrorism #defense #department #elements

If you apply reason and logic to this career of mine, you're not going to get very far. You simply won't. ↗

— Sidney Poitier

#career #far #get #going #logic

We need to dig deep and give people a reason to be optimistic just as Obama is doing in America. Because in the same way that outcome of the U.S. elections will change the course of events there and around the world, so too do politics here in Britain. ↗

— Lucy Powell

#around #because #britain #change #course

For some reason, the evolutionists have not come up with an evolution-based explanation for why human beings react so powerfully to music. But surely they will. ↗

— Dennis Prager

#come #explanation #human #human beings #music

For that reason you can't write with music playing, and anyone who says he can is either writing badly, or not listening to the music, or lying. You need to hear what you're writing, and for that you need silence. ↗

— Philip Pullman

#badly #either #hear #listening #lying