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"Reason can be used only when looking critically back."
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"I write for the same reason I breathe - because if I didn't, I would die."
"The word "belief" is a difficult thing for me. I don't believe. I must have a reason for a certain hypothesis. Either I know a thing, and then I know it - I don't need to believe it."
"Man's life, as required by his nature, is not the life of a mindless brute, of a looting thug or a mooching mystic, but the life of a thinking being-not life by means of force or fraud, but life by means of achievement-not survival at any price, since there's only one price that pays for man's survival: reason."
"A ratio of failures is built into the process of writing. The wastebasket has evolved for a reason."
"When everybody worships all sort of religious lies and illogical myths, dare to be there, in the land of reason!"
"If a thing which is believed by billions is against the reason and not supported by the science, it is a great honour not to be amongst those billions!"
Explore more quotes by Peter D. Mitchell
"The final outcome cannot be known, either to the originator of a new theory, or to his colleagues and critics, who are bent on falsifying it. Thus, the scientific innovator may feel all the more lonely and uncertain."
"Moreover, in the experimental sciences, the scientific fraternity must test a new theory to destruction, if possible."
"Meanwhile, the originator of a theory may have a very lonely time, especially if his colleagues find his views of nature unfamiliar, and difficult to appreciate."
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