Stephen Jay Gould Quotes on Reason
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If there is any consistent enemy of science, it is not religion, but irrationalism.
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The world, unfortunately, rarely matches our hopes and consistently refuses to behave in a reasonable manner.
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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.