"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."

Logic, Reason, Innovation, Technology, Expansion

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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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"You can't skip over nature by logic. Logic presupposes three possibilities, but there are millions! Cut away a million, and reduce it all to the question of comfort! That's the easiest solution to the problem!"

Fyodor Dostoevsky, Russian Novelist

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"Facts are not truths they are not conclusions they are not even premisses but in the nature and parts of premisses."

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, English Poet

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"In order to disprove the assertion that all crows are black, one white crow is sufficient."

William James, American Philosopher

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"Arguments cannot be answered by personal abuse; there is no logic in slander, and falsehood, in the long run, defeats itself."

Robert Green Ingersoll, American Lawyer

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"To mistrust science and deny the validity of scientific method is to resign your job as a human. You'd better go look for work as a plant or wild animal."

P. J. O'Rourke, American Comedian

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"When I was in school the teachers told me practice makes perfect, then they told me nobody's perfect so I stopped practicing."

Steven Wright, American Comedian

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"There is no logic in logics except an illogical logic."

Santosh Kalwar, Nepalese Poet

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"If it's zero degrees outside today and it's supposed to be twice as cold tomorrow, how cold is it going to be?"

Steven Wright, American Comedian

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"All men are mortal. Socrates was mortal. Therefore, all men are Socrates."

Woody Allen, American Director

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"Any belief which encourages you to use your own intellect, which motivates you to question everything and points out your own mind as the only road for your salvation is a good belief!"

Mehmet Murat ildan, Turkish Philosopher

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"It was the ghost of rationality itself ... This is the ghost of normal everyday assumptions which declares that the ultimate purpose of life, which is to keep alive, is impossible, but that this is the ultimate purpose of life anyway, so that great minds struggle to cure diseases so that people may live longer, but only madmen ask why. One lives longer in order that he may live longer. There is no other purpose. That is what the ghost says."

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"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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"For every fact there is an infinity of hypotheses. The more you look the more you see."

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"When you want to hurry something, that means you no longer care about it and want to get on to other things. I just want to get at it slowly, but carefully and thoroughly, with the same attitude I remember was present just before I found that sheared pin. It was that attitude that found it, nothing else."

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"The bones and flesh and legal statistics are the garments worn by the personality, not the other way around."

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"An egoless acceptance of stuckness is a key to an understanding of all Quality."

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"We're living in topsy-turvy times, and I think that what causes the topsy-turvy feeling is inadequacy of old forms of thought to deal with new experiences. I've heard it said that the only real learning results from hang-ups, where instead of expanding the branches of what you already know, you have to stop and drift laterally for a while until you come across something that allows you to expand the roots of what you already know. Everyone's familiar with that. I think the same thing occurs with whole civilizations when expansion's needed at the roots."

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"Definitions are the foundation of reason. You can't reason without them."

Philosophy

"The range of human knowledge today is so great that we're all specialists and the distance between specializations has become so great that anyone who seeks to wander freely between them almost has to forego closeness with the people around him."

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"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."

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