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A Universe More Rational Than Our Species

Posted in Philosophy, Quotes, Science and Learning, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on June 17, 2025| Leave a Comment »

In its relentless ascent toward complexity, the universe has given rise to man, endowed with consciousness and intelligence.  Stardust coalesced to trigger the spark of life and cause the appearance of a living being capable of comprehending the cosmos.  Poets have sung its beauty, artists have painted it harmony, but it fell to scientists to unveil its mysteries and reveal to us this truly miraculous fact:  We live in a rational universe ruled by very precise laws that can be perceived and analyzed by human reasoning.
    —    Trinh Xuan Thuan
From:  “Chaos and Harmony:  Perspectives on Scientific Revolutions of the Twentieth Century“
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Characteristically Human Activities

Posted in Philosophy, Quotes, tagged , , , , , , , , , on July 31, 2023| Leave a Comment »

While ritual, emotion and reasoning are all significant aspects of human nature, the most nearly unique human characteristic is the ability to associate abstractly and to reason.  Curiosity and the urge to solve problems are the emotional hallmarks of our species;  and the most characteristically human activities are mathematics, science, technology, music and the arts — a somewhat broader range of subjects than is usually included under the “humanities.”  Indeed, in its common usage this very word seems to reflect a peculiar narrowness of vision about what is human.  Mathematics is as much a “humanity” as poetry.
    —    Carl Sagan
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Finding Beliefs

Posted in Faith, My Journal, Quotes, tagged , , , , , on December 13, 2014| Leave a Comment »

Most of our so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believing as we already do.
    —    James Harvey Robinson
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Nothing So Far Removed

Posted in My Journal, Philosophy, Quotes, Science and Learning, tagged , , , , , , on June 16, 2014| 8 Comments »

The long chains of simple and easy reasonings by means of which geometers are accustomed to reach the conclusions of their most difficult demonstrations, had led me to imagine that all things, to the knowledge of which man is competent, are mutually connected in the same way, and that there is nothing so far removed from us as to be beyond our reach, or so hidden that we cannot discover it, provided only we abstain from accepting the false for the true, and always preserve in our thoughts the order necessary for the deduction of one truth from another.
     —    René Descartes
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Seven Causes

Posted in Philosophy, Quotes, tagged , , , , , , , , , , on August 27, 2012| Leave a Comment »

Every action must be due to one or the other of seven causes:  chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reasoning, anger, or appetite.
     —    Aristotle
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What Counts

Posted in Investing, Philosophy, Quotes, tagged , , , , , , , on April 1, 2011| Leave a Comment »

And the Truth is, you are neither right nor wrong because people agree with you.  You’re right because your facts and reasoning are right.  In the end, that’s what counts.
    -–    Warren Buffett
(As quoted in:  “The Snowball”;  Written by:  Alice Schroeder)
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Useful Confrontation

Posted in Philosophy, Poetry, Quotes, Reading, Science and Learning, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , on January 17, 2011| Leave a Comment »

One of the primary virtues of commonsense reasoning is its resiliency.  It adapts well when confronted with new facts about a situation.
    ––    Dennis Shasha and Cathy Lazere
Quoted from:  “Out Of Their Minds“
[The problem is too few people have developed commonsense and many of those who have don’t believe their eyes when confronted with new facts.   (See In Broken Images)   —    kmab]
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