“Universities are the custodians not only of the many cultures of man, but of the rational process itself.” MenCultureProcessHe ManUniversityRationalCustodians Book:Point of View: Talks on Education Source: Point of View: Talks on Education
“Sometimes, I work a little more from emotion than I do from rational thought.” LittlesSometimesEmotionRationalRational Thought Author:Ronnie Dunn
“Food is not rational. Food is culture, habit, and identity.” CultureIdentityHabitRationalCraving Author:Jonathan Safran Foer
“There is an overabundance of rational reasons to say no to factory-farmed meat: It is the No. 1 cause of global warming, it systematically forces tens of billions of animals to suffer in ways that would be illegal if they were dogs, it is a decisive factor in the development of swine and avian flus, and so on.” IfsWayReasonWould BeSufferingForceCausesAnimalDogDevelopmentBillionsRationalFactorsMeatGlobal WarmingIllegalFactoriesFluSwineOverabundanceCauses Of Global Warming Author:Jonathan Safran Foer
“A hundred years ago, Auguste Compte, ... a great philosopher, said that humans will never be able to visit the stars, that we will never know what stars are made out of, that that's the one thing that science will never ever understand, because they're so far away. And then, just a few years later, scientists took starlight, ran it through a prism, looked at the rainbow coming from the starlight, and said: "Hydrogen!" Just a few years after this very rational, very reasonable, very scientific prediction was made, that we'll never know what stars are made of.” KnowsYearsHumansMadeSaidAbleScienceStarsOne ThingHundredYears AgoScientistPhilosopherRationalRanReasonableFar AwayRainbowPredictionsHydrogenStarlightPrismsGreat Philosophers Author:Michio Kaku
“I've always been sceptical about the notion that the market is a person you can engage in an argument with, and that that person is an intelligent, rational, well-intentioned person: it is fantasy. We know that ... the market is subject to irrational optimism and pessimism, and is vindictive ... You're dealing with a crazy man ... Having got what he wants he will still kill you.” KnowsMenWantWellsPersonsStillsBusinessFantasyCrazySubjectsArgumentOptimismIntelligentNotionRationalFinancePessimismIrrationalVindictiveOptimism And PessimismCrazy Man Author:Joseph Stiglitz
“To be bothered wherever you go - it's not a rational thing to want at all.” WantRationalBothered Author:Colin Firth
“The remedy for speech that is false is speech that is true. This is the ordinary course in a free society. The response to the unreasoned is the rational; to the uninformed, the enlightened; to the straight-out lie, the simple truth.” LyingCoursesSimpleSpeechOrdinaryResponseRationalEnlightenedRemedyFree SocietySimple TruthsUninformed Author:Anthony Kennedy
“One of the most thoughtless statements, parroted ad nauseam ever since rational concern for our environment exploded into an emotional syndrome, calls Man the only animal that soils its own nest. Every animal soils its nest with the products of its metabolism if unable to move away. Space technology gives us for the first time the freedom to leave our nest, at least for certain functions, in order not to soil it.” IfsMenGivingFirstsMovingCertainOrderSpaceAnimalTechnologyEnvironmentEmotionalProductsFirst TimeConcernFunctionStatementsRationalSoilAdsOur EnvironmentNestsSyndromesMetabolism Author:Krafft Arnold Ehricke