Rationality Quotes

"Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition" "Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence." "A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence" "The good thing about science is that it's true whether or not you believe in it" "By all means let's be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out." "It is time that we admitted that faith is nothing more than the license religious people give one another to keep believing when reasons fail." "All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason There is nothing higher than reason" "Our emotions have a mind of their own, one which can hold views quite independently of our rational mind." "Facts are facts and will not disappear on account of your likes" "Faith is belief without evidence and reason; coincidentally that's also the definition of delusion" "There is nothing without a reason." "The simplest explanation is always the most likely." "If you want to assert a truth, first make sure it's not just an opinion that you desperately want to be true." "When scientifically investigating the natural world, the only thing worse than a blind believer is a seeing denier." "Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines"