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This idea was also brought out very clearly by Wallace, who emphasized that apparently reasonable activities of man might very well have developed without an actual application of reasoning.


Franz Boas


#actual #also #apparently #application #brought

It frequently happens that two persons, reasoning right on a mechanical subject, think alike and invent the same thing without any communication with each other.


Oliver Evans


#any #communication #each #frequently #happens

No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.


Edmund Burke


#effectually #fear #mind #passion #powers

If scientific reasoning were limited to the logical processes of arithmetic, we should not get very far in our understanding of the physical world. One might as well attempt to grasp the game of poker entirely by the use of the mathematics of probability.


Vannevar Bush


#attempt #entirely #far #game #get

All great men are gifted with intuition. They know without reasoning or analysis, what they need to know.


Alexis Carrel


#gifted #great #great men #intuition #know

Reasoning at every step he treads, Man yet mistakes his way, Whilst meaner things, whom instinct leads, Are rarely known to stray.


William Cowper


#every step #his #his way #instinct #known

There is no reasoning, no process of inference or comparison; there is no thinking about things, no putting two and two together; there are no ideas - the animal does not think of the box or of the food or of the act he is to perform.


Edward Thorndike


#act #animal #box #comparison #does

Mathematical reasoning may be regarded rather schematically as the exercise of a combination of two facilities, which we may call intuition and ingenuity.


Alan Turing


#combination #exercise #facilities #ingenuity #intuition

O that unbelievers would learn of faithful Abraham, and believe whatever is revealed from God, though they cannot fully comprehend it! Abraham knew God commanded him to offer up his son, and therefore believed, notwithstanding carnal reasoning might suggest may objections.


George Whitefield


#believe #believed #cannot #carnal #commanded

I've been to Africa three times. All right? You can't bring Western reasoning into the culture. The same way you can't bring it into fundamental Islam.


Bill O'Reilly


#been #bring #culture #fundamental #i






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