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The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable man persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unr
by panny 5y ago
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable man persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
- simonh 5y agoTo a point yes, but none of the principles they outlined seem to me to be an obstacle to progress.
- franknstein 5y agoBy your logic, also all regress.
- frederikvs 5y agoYou may want to properly attribute that quote - it's from George Bernard Shaw.
- Gravityloss 5y agohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_PO5cTb_T5M https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_PO5cTb_T5M A father and son team built a rocket for the X Prize Lunar Lander challenge. They got some impressive results. Their team was called Unreasonable Rocket. EDIT: That said, in this example unreasonableness was about personal endeavor, not about interacting with others or expectations toward others.
- beebmam 5y agoPremise is strictly false. That's not what reason is. Reasoning has a precise definition and set of frameworks.
- Nevermark 5y agoThe quote is entirely true and pithy. It is just using the words "reasonable" and "unreasonable" in a completely different context, where they don't mean the same thing as in a discussion of people who are attempting to get along in good faith or not. On a side note, human reasoning happened long before there was a precise definition and set of frameworks, and continues in most cases without a direct connection to either. "Reasoning" has a different meaning in different contexts just like "reasonable". Most words have a cluster of meanings depending on context.