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"Newton invented a new form of reason. He expanded reason to handle infinitesimal changes and I think what is needed now is a similar expansion of reason to handle technological ugliness. The trouble is that the expansion has to be made at the roots, not at the branches, and that's what makes it hard to see."
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"If thou really believe in one God,irrationality is subset of thou logic."
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"The rule is, jam tomorrow and jam yesterday - but never jam today."
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"Choosing beliefs freely is not what rational minds do."
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"If you write a line of zeroes, it s still nothing."
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"Continuous denial of rational arguments represents a contempt of common sense."
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"Many people have said to me that I'm a mystic. I find that a bit mysterious. I just use logic and common sense for my philosophies."
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"But twice-two-makes-four is for all that a most insupportable thing. Twice-two-makes-four is, in my humble opinion, nothing but a piece of impudence. Twice-two-makes-four is a farcical, dressed-up fellow who stands across your path with arms akimbo and spits at you."
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"Eventually we will all wither and die in the wasteland of logic and science."
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"It had to be a trick or you couldn't have done it."
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"Just because an apple falls one hundred times out of a hundred does not mean it will fall on the hundred and first."
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"He comments on how amazing it is that everything in the universe can be described by the twenty-six written characters with which they have been working. His (Korean) friends nod and smile and eat the food they've taken from tins and say no pleasantly."
Knowledge
"The bones and flesh and legal statistics are the garments worn by the personality, not the other way around."
Philosophy
"When one person suffers from a delusion, it is called insanity. When many people suffer from a delusion it is called a Religion."
Philosophy
"When spontaneity and individuality and really good original stuff occurred in a classroom it was in spite of the instruction, not because of it. This seemed to make sense. He was ready to resign. Teaching dull conformity to hateful students wasn't what he wanted to do."
Creativity
"Bill arrives with a grin about something. Sure, he's got some jets for my machine and knows right were they are. I'll have to wait a second though. He's got to close a deal out in back on some Harley parts. I go with him out in a shed in back and see he is selling a whole Harley machine in used parts, except for the frame, which the customer already has. He is selling them all for $125. Not a bad price at all.Coming back I comment, 'He'll know something about motorcycles before he gets those together.'Bill laughs. 'And that's the best way to learn, too."
Learning
"Why should an irrational method work when rational methods were all so rotten? He had an intuitive feeling, growing rapidly, that what he had stumbled on was no small gimmick. It went far beyond. How far, he didn't know."
Intuition
"Definitions are the foundation of reason. You can't reason without them."
Philosophy
"We want to make good time, but for us now this is measured with the emphasis on 'good' rather than on 'time'...."
Journey
"For every fact there is an infinity of hypotheses."
Knowledge
"Pretty mountains, pretty river, bumpy but pleasant tar road... old buildings, old people on a front porch... strange how old, obsolete buildings and plants and mills, the technology of fifty and a hundred years ago, always seem to look so much better than the new stuff."
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