"Reason is not one tool of thought among many, it is the entire toolbox. To advocate that reason be discarded in some circumstances is to advocate that thinking be discarded - which leaves one in the position of attempting to do a job after throwing away the required instrument."

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Source : George H. Smith (2010). “Atheism: The Case Against God”, p.110, Prometheus Books

George H. Smith

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“I don't have an iPod! It's never appealed to me, really.”

Source : "'This really does keep my brain young'". Interview With Stuart O'Connor, www.theguardian.com. February 14, 2008.
“I suspected my homosexuality, but I'd never acted out on it because I was afraid of sex. It's awful to be afraid of sex.”
“I write rhymes with addition and algebra, mental geometry.”
“An architect is given a program, budget, place, and schedule. Sometimes the end product rises to art - or at least people call it that.”
“Screaming racism is the last refuge of leftist intellectuals who've completely lost their mojo.”
“I believe that it's fine if the university wants to regulate, for example, bandwidth access, but they should treat the students data as private data.”

Source : "Cyber rights... and wrongs" by Erica Hill, www.cnn.com. May 7, 2003.
“I am trying to attend every training session and do all of my workouts.”
“When I first began studying philosophy, a good deal of what went on in analytic epistemology was focused on addressing the Gettier problem. At first, I became quite caught up in it, and the kind of analytical ingenuity required for the work appealed to me. After a while, however, I started to lose interest.”

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