Best 3829 quotes in «reason quotes» category

Science is not only a disciple of reason but, also, one of romance and passion.

Science is not a vast encyclopedia, it is a thin flame of reason burning across ample reservoirs of ignorance.

Science rests on reason and experiment, and can meet an opponent with calmness; [but] a creed is always sensitive.

Second sight is redundant to reason anyway.

Selling, in particular, can be a challenge; many investors are tempted to become more optimistic when a security is performing well. This temptation must be resisted; tax considerations aside, when a security reaches full valuation, there is no longer a reason to own it.

Sexual enlightenment is that hardhearted process which for hygienic reasons forbids young people to satisfy their curiosity themselves.

She gave so many reasons that I've forgotten them all.

She could not trust herself to hope—but without hope, she realized, she had no reason to go on.

She'd become an English major for the purest and dullest of reasons: because she loved to read.

She [Marilyn Monroe] was good at being inarticulately abstracted for the same reason that midgets are good at being short.

She spoke under her breath to Nick. "Is there a reason he's only wearing one sock?" "He puked on his foot." "Oh." She turned back to Huxley. "Can we get you another sock? Maybe a blanket or something?

She teaches me that the world is made to be pounced on and enjoyed, and that there is absolutely no reason at all to hold back.

she was beautiful and seemingly quite intelligent, what with her pentameter search system. There wasn't a reason in the world not to find her appealing.

Short people got no reason to live.

Short attention span is the new avant-garde. Everyone complains that we can no longer intake huge chunks of text. I find that a reason to celebrate. It's something that has deep roots in modernism, stretching from the Futurists' use of typography to Pound's use of ideograms to concrete poetry. David Markson feels particularly relevant now. Twitter is the revenge of modernism.

Since it is proposed to regard chemical reactions as electrical transactions in which reagents act by reason of a constitutional affinity either for electrons or for atomic nuclei, it is important to be able to recognize which type of reactivity any given reagent exhibits.

Since it is Reason which shapes and regulates all other things, it ought not itself to be left in disorder.

Since the Enlightenment, popular religion has rejected the Enlightenment path and transformed itself into a bastion of resistance against reason.

Since there are thousands of reasons to be happy, let us smile so many thousands times!

Skepticism is the agent of reason against organized irrationalism--and is therefore one of the keys to human social and civic decency.

Small businesses are seeing huge rate increases every year, and more and more of them are saying they just can't afford to provide coverage. That's part of the reason more than 45 million Americans are now uninsured.

Social media is called social media for a reason. It lends itself to sharing rather than horn-tooting.

Social science virtually abhors the event. Not without reason; the short-term is the most capricious and deceptive form of time.

Social interactions can be enormously challenging for people on the spectrum. That's part of the reason that unemployment among autistic adults hovers near 80 percent.

So convenient a thing to be a reasonable creature, since it enables one to find or make a reason for every thing one has a mind to do.

Socialized medicine must fail for the same reasons all socialism must fail: it offers no system for rationally allocating resources, and instead promotes the overutilization of all resources, ending in bankruptcy.

So I think you have to marry for the right reasons, and marry the right person.

so it is with human reason, which strives not against faith, when enlightened, but rather furthers and advances it.

Sola scriptura means at least this: that the church's proclamation is always subject to potential correction from the canon. It is for this reason that we resist simply collapsing the text into the tradition of its interpretation and performance.

Solitude was no reason for sloppiness

So I became a producer because I knew one of the reasons was they didn't do them the way I thought was right.

So I won't say I'm lucky. I'm fortunate enough to find or attract very talented people. For some reason I found them, and they found me.

So is it just human nature to believe that things happen for a reason - to find some shred of meaning even in the worst experiences?

Some big movies are terrific, and some aren't. They're made for different reasons, and they have different impacts and they're very different experiences making them. But if they're good, if you're with good people, then hooray.

So many people around me would say they cared for the wrong reasons. A lot of people were pulling from me, taking from me and not giving.

Some comics really thrive on being disrespectful, especially toward women, and it's somehow understood as edgy, but I'm the opposite. I've never liked curse words for that reason.

So, Japan as a country has lost its vigor, it feels very much closed in for various reasons.

Some excel in rhyme who reason foolishly.

Some of the wealthy collectors have paid lots of money for artwork that I already did, but I didn't do it with the intention of catering to them. I think part of the reason my work is attractive to people like that is because it doesn't cater to them.

Some of the reasons John McCain lost in 2008 were his lackluster campaign, his refusal to showcase Obama's extreme liberalism and, thus, his failure to demonstrate why he would make a better president than Obama.

Some of us would be greatly astonished to learn the reasons why others respect us.

Sometimes all you need to live one more day is a good reason to stick around.

Some persons will tell you, with an air of the miraculous, that they recovered although they were given over; whereas they might with more reason have said, they recovered because they were given over.

Some people wave their dogmatic thinking until their own reason is entangled.

Something I say a lot when it comes to anti-feminist stereotypes is that they exist for a reason.

Sometimes good days are not always fun, sometimes they are good because of how hard they were and gratifying for those reasons.

Sometimes, I feel the reason I have become a star beyond my films is that I am politically incorrect.

Sometimes I'll put a lie for philosophical reasons, and sometimes to make the story shorter.

Sometimes I'm not nice for a reason. It's a way to find out what someone's made of.

Sometimes really, really bad things happen to people, and there is no explanation and no reason whatsoever.