Best of Rationality Quotes

20 points komponisto 02 July 2010 12:07:04AM Permalink

Hunches are not bad, they just need to be allowed to die a natural death when evidence proves them wrong.

-- Steve Moore, former FBI agent

14 points komponisto 01 April 2010 09:39:48PM Permalink

What can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence.

-- Christopher Hitchens

11 points komponisto 05 October 2010 07:02:24PM Permalink

In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.

-- Bertrand Russell

(Quoted, in Italian translation, on p. 174 of Amanda Knox's appeal brief.)

9 points komponisto 19 May 2009 08:29:01PM Permalink

Some people dream of great things. Others stay awake and do them.

-Poster found in school classrooms

(Anyone know the original source?)