Analytical Reasoning

Science is the acceptance of what works and the rejection of what does not. That needs more courage than we might think.

— Jacob Bronowski

Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.

— George Bernard Shaw

To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact.

— Charles Darwin

To free a person from error is to give, and not to take away.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Valid criticism does you a favour.

— Carl Sagan

If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.

— George Orwell

Reasoning will never make a man correct an ill opinion, which by reasoning he never acquired.

— Jonathan Swift

No rational argument will have a rational effect on a man who does not want to adopt a rational attitude.

— Karl Popper

I much prefer the sharpest criticism of a single intelligent man to the thoughtless approval of the masses.

— Johannes Kepler