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It is our responsibility to examine why we think what we think in order for us to make wise decisions. - Mr. Robison

"The scientific method allows ordinary people to do extraordinary things" - Francis Bacon

"...most individuals believe in things that are untrue or unjustified or both: most people possess a lot of unreliable knowledge and, what's worse, they act on that knowledge! Other ways of knowing, and there are many in addition to science, are not reliable because their discovered knowledge is not justified. Science is a method that allows a person to possess, with the highest degree of certainty possible, reliable knowledge (justified belief) about nature. The method used to justify scientific knowledge, and thus make it reliable, is called the scientific method." -- An Introduction to Science : Scientific Thinking and the Scientific Method by Steven Schafersman

"A person who will not reason is a bigot;
one who cannot reason is a fool;
and one who dares not reason is a slave." --William Drummond

"Science aims at nothing but making true and adequate statements about its object. The scientist only imposes two things, namely truth and sincerity, imposes them upon himself and upon other scientists."--Erwin Schrodinger, "the Principle of Objectification", in What Is Life? : The Physical Aspect of the Living Cell With Mind and Matter & Autobiographical Sketches

"The propagandist tries to "put something across," good or bad. The scientist does not try to put anything across; he (sic) devotes his life to the discovery of new facts and principles. The propagandist seldom wants careful scrutiny and criticism; his object is to bring about a specific action. The scientist, on the other hand, is always prepared for and wants the most careful scrutiny and criticism of his facts and ideas. Science flourishes on criticism. Dangerous propaganda crumbles before it."--Alfred McLung Lee & Elizabeth Bryant Lee, The Fine Art of Propaganda, 1939

"Enlightenment is man's emergence from his self-imposed nonage. Nonage is the inability to use one's understanding without another's guidance. This nonage is self-imposed if its cause lies not in lack of understanding but in indecision and lack of courage to use one's mind without another's guidance. "Sapere Aude!" -- "Dare to Know!" Have the courage to use your own understanding is therefore the motto of the Enlightenment." -- Immanuel Kant, 1784 "What is Enlightenment?"

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