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"Though analogy is often misleading, it is the least misleading thing we have."
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"Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it, shall perish by it."
"He who thinks and thinks for himself, will always have a claim to thanks; it is no matter whether it be right or wrong, so as it be explicit. If it is right, it will serve as a guide to direct; if wrong, as a beacon to warn."
"You all know the argument from design: everything in the world is made just so that we can manage to live in the world, and if the world was ever so little different, we could not manage to live in it. That is the argument from design. It sometimes takes a rather curious form; for instance, it is argued that rabbits have white tails in order to be easy to shoot. I do not know how rabbits would view that application."
"An overly complex explanation began with an unsophisticated assumption."
"Facts are always required to draw conclusions and make serious decisions."
"Reason is up to these demands because it is an open-ended combinatorial system, an engine for generating an unlimited number of new ideas. Once it is programmed with a basic self-interest and an ability to communicate with others, its own logic will impel it, in the fullness of time, to respect the interests of ever-increasing numbers of others. It is reason too that can always take note of the shortcomings of previous exercises of reasoning, and update and improve itself in response. And if you detect a flaw in this argument, it is reason that allows you to point it out and defend an alternative."
"Success-minded people know that nothing is without a reason."
"The mechanic, when a wheel refuses to turn, never thinks of dropping on his knees and asking the assistance of some divine power. He knows there is a reason. He knows that something is too large or too small; that there is something wrong with his machine; and he goes to work and he makes it larger or smaller, here or there, until the wheel will turn."
"Though analogy is often misleading, it is the least misleading thing we have."
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"A physician's physiology has much the same relation to his power of healing as a cleric's divinity has to his power of influencing conduct."
"Letters are like wine; if they are sound they ripen with keeping. A man should lay down letters as he does a cellar of wine."
"If people would dare to speak to one another unreservedly, there would be a good deal less sorrow in the world a hundred years hence."
"If we attend continually and promptly to the little that we can do, we shall ere long be surprised to find how little remains that we cannot do."
"A virtue to be serviceable must, like gold, be alloyed with some commoner, but more durable alloy."
"Think of and look at your work as though it were done by your enemy. I you look at it to admire it, you are lost."
"In old times people used to try and square the circle; now they try and devise schemes for satisfying the Irish nation."
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