Rationality Quotes

"The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence" "A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it" "Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality" "There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity" "People almost invariably arrive at their beliefs not on the basis of proof but on the basis of what they find attractive" "Science is what we have learned about how to keep from fooling ourselves" "There's nothing I like less than bad arguments for a view that I hold dear." "Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions" "The rules of morality are not the conclusions of our reason" "You can never convince a monkey to give you a banana by promising him limitless bananas after death in monkey heaven" "I shall not commit the fashionable stupidity of regarding everything I cannot explain as a fraud" "I'm against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world" "Science replaces private prejudice with publicly verifiable evidence" "It is absolutely safe to say that if you meet somebody who claims not to believe in evolution, that person is ignorant, stupid or insane (or wicked, but I’d rather not consider that)" "The middle of the road is all of the usable surface. The extremes, right and left, are in the gutters"