Reason is the rider on the elephant of emotion.
Jonathan Haidt
Peter Griffin was certainly an exceptional "reasoning" mathematician. Additionally, his ability to reason belies the implication that emotion controls reason more than vice versa-at least for him.
Your question about Griffin pushed me to look again at The Theory of Blackjack. He had some memorable quotes at the beginning of each chapter. Since this thread is about quotes, I am adding some of them here.
There are three subjects you can count upon a man to lie about: sex, gas mileage, and gambling.
R. A. Rosenbaum
But what did (the odds) matter to me?...
I wanted to astonish the spectators by taking senseless chances.
Dostoevsky, The Gambler
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