#reasoning

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

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From the smallest necessity to the highest religious abstraction, from the wheel to the skyscraper, everything we are and everything we have comes from one attribute of man - the function of his reasoning mind. ↗

— Ayn Rand

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All correct reasoning is a grand system of tautologies, but only God can make direct use of that fact. ↗

— Herbert Simon

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Alas! with all her reasoning, she found, that to retentive feelings eight years may be little more than nothing. ↗

— Jane Austen

#first-love #reasoning #time #love

Human reason can excuse any evil. ↗

— Veronica Roth

#evil #humanity #reasoning #evil

There is something about inside information which seems to paralyse a man's reasoning powers. ↗

— Bernard Baruch

#about #information #inside #man #powers

Every philosophy is tinged with the coloring of some secret imaginative background, which never emerges explicitly into its train of reasoning. ↗

— Alfred North Whitehead

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The idea of reasoning with terrorists without force or with appeasement is naive, and I think it's dangerous. ↗

— George Allen

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The more one listens to ordinary conversations the more apparent it becomes that the reasoning faculties of the brain take little part in the direction of the vocal organs. ↗

— Edgar Rice Burroghs

#becomes #brain #conversations #direction #faculties

But the need for conflict to expose prejudice and unclear reasoning, which is deeply embedded in my philosophy of science, has its origin in these debates. ↗

— Robert B. Laughlin

#debates #deeply #embedded #expose #need