Science & Reason Quotes — page 8

He is irrational, however well he may be able to reason, who does not clearly see that good is good and truth truth.

it is as irrational to accept blindly the dictum of those who say, "Thus saith science!" as it is in things that are the proper field of the natural sciences to bow before the dictum of those who say, "Thus saith religion!"

Reason requires all things to have a use and be appropriate and fitted to the purpose for which they are used.

They were newly rich contractors who, having bought houses, motors, hand-painted pictures, and gentlemanliness, were now buying a refined ready-made philosophy. It had been a tossup with them whether to buy New Thought, Christian Science, …

I have been trying all my life to like Scotchmen, and am obliged to desist from the experiment in despair.

In science, read, by preference, the newest works; in literature, the oldest. The classic literature is always modern.

A new factor enters the situation when we encounter the influence of ‘scientific socialism.’ It is true, the party platform declares that ‘religion is a private affair.’ The saving of souls is the only industry that socialism distinctly …

It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.

But by far the greatest obstacle to the progress of science and to the undertaking of new tasks and provinces therein is found in this — that men despair and think things impossible.

Still may syllabes jar with time, Still may reason war with rhyme, Resting never!

Woman's inaptitude for reasoning has not prevented her from arriving at truth; nor has man's ability to reason prevented him from floundering in absurdity.

Magick is the Science and Art of causing Change to occur in conformity with Will.

Those who most confidently appeal to Reason are usually the very persons most controlled by Imagination.

There are few things more exciting to me, in short, than a psychological reason.

Woe to the unlucky man who as a child is taught, even as a portion of his creed, what his grown reason must forswear.

There is something in Poetry beyond Prose-reason; there are Mysteries in it not to be explained, but admired; which render mere Prose-men Infidels to their Divinity.

It is odd that the last twenty-five years which have witnessed the greatest progress ever made in physical science—the greatest victories ever achieved by mind over matter—should have produced hardly a volume that will be remembered in …

No one can depute authority. It comes too much from personal accidents, and too little from reason or law to be handed over to others.

Religion has never risen from science: it is an overflowing of the heart of man in his relations with God.

To give a reason for anything is to breed a doubt of it…

I have often been surprised that Mathematics, the quintessence of Truth, should have found admirers so few and so languid. Frequent consideration and minute scrutiny have at length unravelled the cause: viz. that though Reason is feasted, …

It is reason, principle, conscience, the inhabitant of the breast, the man within, the great judge and arbiter of our conduct.

And as well as I dream, I reason if I want, for that's just another kind of dream.

Of all the bigotries that savage the human temper there is none so stupid as the anti-Semitic. It has no basis in reason; it is not rooted in faith; it aspires to no ideal; it is just one of those dank and unwholesome weeds that grow in …