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"An overly complex explanation began with an unsophisticated assumption."
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"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."
"Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it, shall perish by it."
"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."
"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."
"Success-minded people know that nothing is without a reason."
"Though analogy is often misleading, it is the least misleading thing we have."
"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."
"An overly complex explanation began with an unsophisticated assumption."
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"Information is a difference that makes a difference. Truth is information that doesn't change and self referential noise is a difference that doesn't make a difference."
"You cannot identify an enemy without becoming one."
"There is great beauty in the world but you will not trip over it with every step. When a man dulls himself to beauty, the world begins to die."
"If you zoom in far enough, the information is there but it contains no meaning. The meaning emerges as a collective principle of organization."
"The density of meaning is external and context dependent."
"Imagination is the connecting of disparate things in novel ways."
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