3 Stephen Jay Gould Quotes on Reason

Stephen Jay Gould quotes on reason

7. If there is any consistent enemy of science, it is not religion, but irrationalism.

20. The world, unfortunately, rarely matches our hopes and consistently refuses to behave in a reasonable manner.

89. Lavoisier was right in the deepest, almost holy, way. His passion harnessed feeling to the service of reason; another kind of passion was the price. Reason cannot save us and can even persecute us in the wrong hands; but we have no hope of salvation without reason. The world is too complex, too intransigent; we cannot bend it to our simple will.