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Rationality Quotes October 2011
aSynchro00

“Uniformity is death. Diversity is life”

Mikhaïl Bakounine

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Rationality Quotes October 2011
aSynchro-10

"Perfection isn't when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away."

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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0Nominull
Repeat. http://lesswrong.com/lw/mx/rationality_quotes_3/
Rationality Quotes October 2011
aSynchro50

There's a nice quote from George Bernard Shaw on the same subject: "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man."

It's more demonstrative imho ^^

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0RobertLumley
I dislike that quote. It used to be in my quotesfile, but I removed it sometime recently. It starts out on a bad premise, namely, that the reasonable man adapts himself to the world. There's no justification for that, and if you reverse "reasonable" and "unreasonable" the quote is pointless.
1Fyrius
Ah, that one. I may lack the context to properly appreciate this quote, but evaluating it on its own merits, I've always thought it's unfair - I think the judgemental aspect isn't necessarily warranted. It's unreasonable to want to adapt the world to ourselves, now? In many cases I think it's just a good idea, and there are plenty of examples that I don't think anyone would feel any need to disagree with. Humankind changed the world when they eliminated smallpox, for example. I may be missing the point.