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

— Jonah Lehrer, American Novelist

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

The cooperative structure never encourages huge bureaucratic systems, for it knows that mammoth bureaucracies cannot be sensitive to the needs of people.

— Vikram Sarabhai, Indian Scientist

Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.

— George Orwell, English Novelist

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

A concept is a brick. It can be used to build a courthouse of reason. Or it can be thrown through the window.

— Gilles Deleuze, French Philosopher

A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.

— Charles Darwin, English Biologist

If one devalues rationality, the world tends to fall apart.

— Lars Von Trier,  Danish film director

I don’t believe in taking right decisions. Take decisions and make them right.

— Ratan Tata, Indian Industrialist

Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.

— Mark Twain, American Writer
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