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"An overly complex explanation began with an unsophisticated assumption."
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"Though analogy is often misleading, it is the least misleading thing we have."
"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."
"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."
"Facts are always required to draw conclusions and make serious decisions."
"Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it, shall perish by it."
"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."
"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."
"An overly complex explanation began with an unsophisticated assumption."
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"We are searching for the most humble man on the planet so that we can award him with a great honor but we are having trouble finding the guy."
"Perfect truth (symmetry) is information that doesn't change and pure randomness is a difference that doesn't make a difference."
"We live in the shadows of perception. Our dull awareness gives us no useful clues as to why we are here."
"The imagination goes where it will, you can be set aloft by it, or you can cage it with reason."
"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."
"Power and control are an illusion, all we have are the relationship of measured things and incomplete descriptions."
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