Alexander Vilenkin Quotes

The best way to win an argument is to begin by being right.

He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.

Persuasion is clearly a sort of demonstration, since we are most fully persuaded when we consider a thing to have been demonstrated.

That's the beauty of argument, if you argue correctly, you're never wrong.

Logic is the art of convincing us some truth.

Convincing yourself doesn't win an argument.

When blithe to argument I come, Though armed with facts, and merry, May Providence protect me from The fool as adversary, Whose mind to him a kingdom is Where reason lacks dominion, Who calls conviction prejudice And prejudice opinion.

Good argument is intended to persuade another.

Rhetoric is cheap, evidence comes more dearly.

Nothing is as frustrating as arguing with someone who knows what he's talking about.

Logic is the technique by which we add conviction to truth.

Argument is conclusive … but … it does not remove doubt.

The truth is always the strongest argument.

Though we cannot out-vote them we will out-argue them.

In my opinion, it helps enormously to know why something is true, rather than being told it is true, for why should you believe me? Never believe anything on the authority of a single person but seek confirmation — and reason is the best confirmation

Analogies prove nothing, that is quite true, but they can make one feel more at home.

I enjoy a good reasoned argument. I love the power of logic.

Yes, I have a philosophy, and you have to come with good arguments to change that philosophy, but, if someone has a better argument than me, then I will change.

There is nothing that a New-Englander so nearly worships as an argument.

You can change my mind, but you gotta work harder at it.

In Don Mills in the Sixties, nothing comes close to the humiliation of losing an argument. In our weird little creative circle, no one cares who has faster fists, but to lose an argument suggests inferior intelligence.

It would be awesome to be so impressive that we could sway people to our way of thinking just by declaiming our thoughts, but probably most of us lack such gravitas. Luckily, there's something even better: evidence, logic, and argument.

The best way I know of to win an argument is to start by being in the right.

A proof is a proof. What kind of a proof? It's a proof. A proof is a proof. And when you have a good proof, it's because it's proven.

Neither irony or sarcasm is argument.