Temple Grandin Quotes

I'm a hard-core geek.

Don't know if I'm a nerd - I'm more of a geek.

The provocation with Holmes is the fact that he's described by Doyle as a man without a heart - all brain... and that's very difficult to play, or even indicate.

I am much more of a geek than I am an athlete.

I span the entire geek spectrum.

Everybody who labels themselves a 'nerd' isn't some giant person locked in a cubbyhole who's never seen the opposite sex. Especially with the way the Internet is now, I think that definition is getting a little more diffuse.

As reason is the glory of man, so the lamp of reason is eloquence.

That which exercises reason is more excellent than that which does not exercise reason

I don't feel like a dork, but I certainly have many moments of nerdism, and I embrace it wholeheartedly. I've always cottoned to that crowd more, anyway.

Being a nerd is not always a bad thing. It's actually cool to be a nerd.

I consider myself a nerd. I love science and technology.

What we showed you was you can have analytic reasoning that can be passionate.

Being a geek is all about being honest about what you enjoy.

He that cannot reason is a fool.

We cannot escape the clear fact that what is going to win in this world is reason, if this ever becomes a reasonable world.

Whatever else we may say of our own age, for good or evil, nobody is likely to call it an Age of Reason.

Man is a rational animal—so at least I have been told. … Aristotle, so far as I know, was the first man to proclaim explicitly that man is a rational animal. His reason for this view was … that some people can do sums. … It is in virtue of the intellect that man is a rational animal. The intellect is shown in various ways, but most emphatically by mastery of arithmetic. The Greek system of numerals was very bad, so that the multiplication table was quite difficult, and complicated calculations could only be made by very clever people.

It's against reason," said Filby. "What reason?" said the Time Traveller.

Men prosper or fail, survive or perish in proportion to the degree of their rationality.

I became, in other words, more like Holmes than the man himself: brilliant, driven to a point of obsession, careless of myself, mindless of others, but without the passion and the deep-down, inbred love for the good in humanity that was the basis of his entire career. He loved the humanity that could not understand or fully accept him; I, in the midst of the same human race, became a thinking machine.

Nerds are running the world. Andrew Garfield made a movie [called “The Social Network”] about it. Nerds are no longer pariahs and knowing how to write computer code is longer a [mocked] quality. What was important in those early comics was this notion that Peter Parker is an outsider and how we define that in a contemporary context. That, I think, was one of the challenges for us — getting Peter Parker’s outsider status to be current.

Reason must be our last judge and guide in everything.

Fear is the enemy of logic.

For me science fiction is a way of thinking, a way of logic that bypasses a lot of nonsense. It allows people to look directly at important subjects.

Mathematical reasoning may be regarded.