Jeremy Bentham Quotes

The man of science is a poor philosopher.

My background is basically scientific math. My Dad was a physicist, so I have it in my blood somewhere. Scientific method is very important to me. I think anything that contradicts it is probably not true.

Practically, Science is true; and Faith is foolish.

Rationalism doesn't require "belief," only observation. The real, measurable world doesn't care what you believe.

Scientific research can reduce superstition by encouraging people to think and view things in terms of cause and effect.

To disparage the dictate of reason is equivalent to contemning the command of God.

Reasoning is the pastime of my whole household, and all this reasoning has driven out Reason.

[I]t is truth alone-scientific, established, proved, and rational truth-which is capable of satisfying nowadays the awakened minds of all classes. We may still say perhaps, 'faith governs the world,'-but the faith of the present is no longer in revelation or in the priest-it is in reason and in science.

I'm supposed to be a scientific person but I use intuition more than logic in making basic decisions.

Say first, of god above or man below; what can we reason but from what we know.

Logic is the art of convincing us some truth.

Science and reason liberate us from the shackles of superstition by offering us a framework for understanding our shared humanity. Ultimately, we all have the capacity to treasure life and enrich the world in incalculable ways.

Induction for deduction, with a view to construction.

Science, unlike theology, never leads to insanity.

Thinking. A process by which I use my brain to make a rational decision.

Science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common sense rounded out and minutely articulated.

The investigation of mathematical truths accustoms the mind to method and correctness in reasoning, and is an employment peculiarly worthy of rational beings.

Logic is one thing and commonsense another.

We shall do better to abandon the whole attempt to learn the truthunless we can trust to the human mind's having such a powerof guessing right that before very many hypotheses shall have been tried, intelligent guessing may be expected to lead us to one which will support all tests, leaving the vast majority of possible hypotheses unexamined.

We do not respect people's beliefs, we evaluate their reasons. If my reasons are good enough for believing what I believe, you will helplessly believe what I believe. I will give you my reasons and reasons are contagious. That is what it is to be a rational human being.

Logic is the kingdom of the unexpected. To think logically means to be continually amazed.

The best road to correct reasoning is by physical science; the way to trace effects to causes is through physical science; the only corrective, therefore, of superstition is physical science.

Logic is a large drawer, containing some useful instruments, and many more that are superfluous. A wise man will look into it for two purposes, to avail himself of those instruments that are really useful, and to admire the ingenuity with which those that are not so, are assorted and arranged.

Logic is the hygiene the mathematician practices to keep his ideas healthy and strong.

With method and logic one can accomplish anything.