Such familiar figures as a messed-up clown (John Malkovich) and a hyper-rational man of science (Donald Pleasence) either suffer the torments of love or try to find the root of evil.

NEWYORKER: Shadows and Fog

They are, with their rational basis in math and science and their clean modernist aesthetic, the perfect antidote to the postmodern, self-referential and celebrity art of the early aughts.

FORBES: Magazine Article

The result, which Dr Jensen reports in Science, is that chimps are simply rational maximisers Pan economicus, if you like.

ECONOMIST: Evolution

But Joseph Kaye, a graduate student at Cornell's computer science department, had a slightly less rational idea: stop with just two endpoints.

FORBES: Magazine Article

And also, because God has granted us intelligence and reason, we can find the logos, that rational explanation that exists in the universe that allows us to engage in science as well.

FORBES: Chief Vatican Astronomer: Big Bang Is Compatible With Catholicism

Economists, psychologists and historians of science all tell us (and I am inclined to believe them) that we act within our rational self-interest.

FORBES: Peer Review And 'Pal Review' In Climate Science