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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."
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"Success-minded people know that nothing is without a reason."
"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."
"Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it, shall perish by it."
"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."
"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."
"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."
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"Secrecy, being an instrument of conspiracy, ought never to be the system of a regular government."
"No power of government ought to be employed in the endeavor to establish any system or article of belief on the subject of religion."
"The question is not, "Can they reason?" nor, "Can they talk?" but rather, "Can they suffer?""
"It is vain to talk of the interest of the community, without understanding what is the interest of the individual."
"As to the evil which results from a censorship, it is impossible to measure it, for it is impossible to tell where it ends."
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