I am convinced that the act of thinking logically cannot possibly be natural to the human mind. If it were, then mathematics would be everybody's easiest course at school and our species would not have taken several millennia to figure out the scientific method.

Neil Degrasse Tyson
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This quote is a wonderful example of the power of logic and reason. There is no doubt that our species has been around for thousands and thousands of years, but we still have not figured out everything there is to know about the universe. This quote gives great credit to the human mind and the power of logic.

Source: The Sky Is Not The Limit: Adventures Of An Urban Astrophysicist

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