“If the average man thinks at all, he does silly things like generalizing from a single datum. He uses one-valued logics. . . If he is hungry, hurt, or personally interested in the answer, he can’t use any sort of logic and will discard an observed fact as blithely as he will risk his life on a piece of wishful thinking. . . Far from aspiring to higher reasoning, he is not even aware that higher reasoning exists. He classes his own mental process as being of the same sort as the genius of an Einstein. Man is not a rational animal, he is a rationalizing animal.” Robert A. Heinlein, Gulf (1948).
“If the average man thinks at all, he does silly things like generalizing from a single datum. He uses one-valued logics. . . If he is hungry, hurt, or personally interested in the answer, he can’t use any sort of logic and will discard an observed fact as blithely as he will risk his life on a piece of wishful thinking. . . Far from aspiring to higher reasoning, he is not even aware that higher reasoning exists. He classes his own mental process as being of the same sort as the genius of an Einstein. Man is not a rational animal, he is a rationalizing animal.” Robert A. Heinlein, Gulf (1948).