Leisner, M., Bleris, L., Lohmueller, J., Xie, Z. & Benenson, Y. Rationally designed logic integration of regulatory signals in mammalian cells.
There is an enormous lie underlying business, the lie that decisions are made rationally, applying logic and expertise, sifting evidence, and carefully weighing alternatives.
There is no logic behind this: obviously, rationally, I'm not "taking" my friends' would-be child by being pregnant myself.
By this same logic, a state could rationally refuse to marry an opposite-sex infertile couple, claiming that their union differs from (to coin a strange phrase) fertile couples and therefore should not be afforded the same societal and legal recognition.
Obama assumed that Republicans would act "rationally" where "rationality" was defined by false reason -- on the logic of material self-interest.
You know... Since talking rationally and using logic and reason doesn't seem to work... John Boehner: Weeper of the House.
The processing in the brain that allows us to respond to any circumstance isn't a matter of straight-line logic by which A is rationally connected to B. In everyone, there is a cloud of causes, not a straight line.
Normally, we commit to an idea when we are rationally compelled by the logic of the idea and we feel emotionally comfortable with it.
E.J. Corey (Corey and Cheng, 1989) has proposed that the synthesis of organic molecules can be rationally planned according to the logic of retrosynthetic analysis.
Our results illustrate one way in which protein switches can be rationally redesigned to execute different logic gate functions through a manipulation of their allosteric mechanism.
