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4. “If you see voters as rational, you'll be a terrible politician. People are not wired to be rational. Our brains simply evolved to keep us alive. Brains did not evolve to give us truth. Brains merely give us movies in our minds that keeps us sane and motivated. But none of it is rational or true, except maybe sometimes by coincidence.”
Scott Adams
Politics, Rationality, Psychology, Decision-Making, Human Nature
6. “We Humans Like To Think We Are Creatures Of Reason. We Aren’t. The Reality Is That We Make Our Decisions First And Rationalize Them Later... Your Illusion Of Being A Rational Person Is Supported By The Fact That Sometimes You Do Act Rationally.” Scott Adams Psychology, Decision-making, Rationality, Human-nature, Illusion
9. “Men are not rational beings, as commonly supposed. A man is a bundle of instincts, feelings, sentiments, which severally seek their gratification, and those which are in power get hold of reason and use it to their own ends, and exclude all other sentiments and feelings from power.” Herbert Spencer Reason, Instinct, Feelings, Power, Rationality
14. “The cosmic perspective is humble. The cosmic perspective is spiritual – even redemptive – but not religious. The cosmic perspective enables us to grasp, in the same thought, the large and the small. The cosmic perspective opens our minds to extraordinary ideas but does not leave them so open that our brains spill out, making us susceptible to believing anything we’re told.” Neil deGrasse Tyson Perspective, Universe, Humility, Spiritual, Rationality
22. “If all that you see, do, measure and discover is the will of a deity, then ideas can never be proven wrong, you have no predictive power, and you are at a loss to understand the principles behind most of the fundamental interconnections of nature.” Neil deGrasse Tyson Science, Logic, Knowledge, Rationality, Discovery
27. “Listen, I mean that from my knowledge of the world that I see around me, I think that it is much more likely that the reports of flying saucers are the results of the known irrational characteristics of terrestrial intelligence than of the unknown rational efforts of extra-terrestrial intelligence.” Richard P. Feynman Flying Saucers, Intelligence, Aliens, Rationality, Science
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4. “If you see voters as rational, you'll be a terrible politician. People are not wired to be rational. Our brains simply evolved to keep us alive. Brains did not evolve to give us truth. Brains merely give us movies in our minds that keeps us sane and motivated. But none of it is rational or true, except maybe sometimes by coincidence.”
Scott Adams Politics, Rationality, Psychology, Decision-Making, Human Nature
6. “We Humans Like To Think We Are Creatures Of Reason. We Aren’t. The Reality Is That We Make Our Decisions First And Rationalize Them Later... Your Illusion Of Being A Rational Person Is Supported By The Fact That Sometimes You Do Act Rationally.”
Scott Adams Psychology, Decision-making, Rationality, Human-nature, Illusion
9. “Men are not rational beings, as commonly supposed. A man is a bundle of instincts, feelings, sentiments, which severally seek their gratification, and those which are in power get hold of reason and use it to their own ends, and exclude all other sentiments and feelings from power.”
Herbert Spencer Reason, Instinct, Feelings, Power, Rationality
14. “The cosmic perspective is humble. The cosmic perspective is spiritual – even redemptive – but not religious. The cosmic perspective enables us to grasp, in the same thought, the large and the small. The cosmic perspective opens our minds to extraordinary ideas but does not leave them so open that our brains spill out, making us susceptible to believing anything we’re told.”
Neil deGrasse Tyson Perspective, Universe, Humility, Spiritual, Rationality
22. “If all that you see, do, measure and discover is the will of a deity, then ideas can never be proven wrong, you have no predictive power, and you are at a loss to understand the principles behind most of the fundamental interconnections of nature.”
Neil deGrasse Tyson Science, Logic, Knowledge, Rationality, Discovery
27. “Listen, I mean that from my knowledge of the world that I see around me, I think that it is much more likely that the reports of flying saucers are the results of the known irrational characteristics of terrestrial intelligence than of the unknown rational efforts of extra-terrestrial intelligence.”
Richard P. Feynman Flying Saucers, Intelligence, Aliens, Rationality, Science
