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Keep in mind my friend, if an answer is not rational, then it is not an answer, but a delusion.”

— Abhijit Naskar, Author

I think that we must find some way to get more common sense, more rationality, in our decisions and less emotion.

— David Packard, Co- founder of HP

The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.

— Isaac Asimov, American Writer and Professor

During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.

— George Orwell, English Novelist

People who are more rational don’t perceive emotion less, they just regulate it better.

— Jonah Lehrer, American Novelist

To such a world of conflict, a world of victims, and executions, it is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners.

— Albert Camus, French Philosopher

What counts now are the value-less facts, the material and the rational. All else is regarded with condescension as being of only sentimental value.

— Jean Gebser, Swiss Philosopher

The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.

— Thomas Hexley, English Biologist

What, therefore, is a government at its best? It is a government that “governs” least and instead finds ways to mobilise the energies of our people.

— Vikram Sarabhai, Indian Scientist

Writing my own novels in the ’90s…I never imagined that in ten years, science and rationality would require explanation and defense in a world rocked and ruled by religious fervor.

— Mary Doria Russell, American Novelist
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