Quotes from the World for Saturday 08/31/MXIII

Reason is a faculty far larger than mere objective force. When either the political or the scientific discourse announces itself as the voice of reason, it is playing God, and should be spanked and stood in the corner.

Ursula K. Le Guin
Ursula K. Le Guin (b. 1929), U.S. author. Commencement address, 1986, Bryn Mawr. Dancing at the Edge of the World (1989).