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Reasonable Man of the Day: Mythbuster Adam Savage delivers a rousing speech on reason and the progress-sustaining byproducts thereof at Saturday’s Reason Rally in DC.

Money: “Everything that we have that makes our lives possible exists because human beings have tested the things they’ve found in their surroundings, made predictions based on those tests, and then improved upon them. This is reason: The human capacity to make sense of the world.”

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