Quotes with reasoning

  • The difference between science and the fuzzy subjects is that science requires reasoning while those other subjects merely require scholarship.
  • A society in which all men and women would become people of substantive reason, whose independent reasoning would have structural consequences for their societies, its history and thus for their own life fates.
  • 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.
  • Both a priori reasoning and experience teach us that as as these funds grow larger the geometrical rate of growth by compound interest ultimately defeats itself.
  • As if reasoning were any kind of writing or talking which tends to convince people that some doctrine or measure is true and right.
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  • Thomas More For this is one of the ancientest laws among them; that no man shall be blamed for reasoning in the maintenance of his own religion.
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  • Roger Bacon Reasoning draws a conclusion, but does not make the conclusion certain, unless the mind discovers it by the path of experience.
    Roger Bacon
    English philosopher and Franciscan (1214 - 1294)
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  • Bill Watterson The purpose of writing is to inflate weak ideas, obscure pure reasoning, and inhibit clarity. With a little practice, writing can be an intimidating and impenetrable fog!
    Bill Watterson
    American cartoonist (1958 - )
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  • Alexis Carrel A few observation and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning to truth.
    Alexis Carrel
    French surgeon, anatomist and biologist (1873 - 1944)
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  • C. Wright Mills A society in which all men and women would become people of substantive reason, whose independent reasoning would have structural consequences for their societies, its history and thus for their own life fates.
    The Sociological Imagination (1959)
    C. Wright Mills
    American sociologist (1916 - 1962)
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  • Alexis Carrel All great men are gifted with intuition. They know without reasoning or analysis, what they need to know.
    Alexis Carrel
    French surgeon, anatomist and biologist (1873 - 1944)
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  • Catharine Esther Beecher As if reasoning were any kind of writing or talking which tends to convince people that some doctrine or measure is true and right.
    Catharine Esther Beecher
    American educator
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  • Benjamin Graham Both a priori reasoning and experience teach us that as as these funds grow larger the geometrical rate of growth by compound interest ultimately defeats itself.
    Storage and Stability Part II, Ch. VIII,Ultimate Uses of the Stored Unit
    Benjamin Graham
    British-born American economist, professor and investor (1894 - 1976)
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  • Carlos Castaneda Conclusions arrived at through reasoning have very little or no influence in altering the course of our lives.
    Carlos Castaneda
    American author and anthropologist (1925 - 1998)
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  • Alfred N. Whitehead Every philosophy is tinged with the coloring of some secret imaginative background, which never emerges explicitly into its train of reasoning.
    Alfred N. Whitehead
    English philosopher and mathematician (1861 - 1947)
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  • John R. Stott Faith is a reasoning trust, a trust which reckons thoughtfully and confidently upon the trustworthiness of God.
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  • Ayn Rand 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
    Russian Writer, Philosopher (1905 - 1982)
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  • Johann Kaspar Lavater He knows very little of mankind who expects, by any facts or reasoning, to convince a determined party man.
    Johann Kaspar Lavater
    Swiss theologist and mysticist (1741 - 1801)
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  • Little Richard I got fame and fortune, and I lost my sense of reasoning.
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  • Plato I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning.
    Plato
    Greek philosopher (427 - 347)
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  • Vannevar Bush 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.
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  • Mary Wollstonecraft If the abstract rights of man will bear discussion and explanation, those of women, by a parity of reasoning, will not shrink from the same test: though a different opinion prevails in this country.
    Mary Wollstonecraft
    British feministisch writer (1759 - 1797)
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  • Alexander Hamilton Man is a reasoning rather than a reasonable animal.
    Alexander Hamilton
    American statesman (1757 - 1804)
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  • Antoine Rivarol Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.
    Antoine Rivarol
    French journalist (1753 - 1801)
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  • Alan Turing 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
    English mathematician and computer scientist (1912 - 1954)
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