badger comments on Rationality Quotes - April 2009 - Less Wrong

11 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 18 April 2009 01:26AM

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Comment author: badger 18 April 2009 04:48:59AM 13 points [-]

Reason means truth, and those who are not governed by it take the chance that someday a sunken fact will rip the bottom out of their boat.

-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

Comment author: dlrlw 12 May 2015 09:01:44AM 1 point [-]

Alas, even those who are governed by reason take the chance that someday a sunken fact will rip the bottom out of their boat.

The odds are only somewhat less for this happening to those governed by reason.