Quotes About Logic

A metà strada tra la fede e la critica c'è sempre l'ostello della ragione. La ragione è la fede in ciò che si può comprendere senza fede; ma è anche essa stessa una fede, perchè comprendere implica presupporre che esista qualcosa di comprensibile.

Tal vez se descubra que aquello que llamamos Dios, y que de forma tan patente está en otro plano diferente al de la lógica y la realidad espacial y temporal, es una forma de nuestra existencia, una sensación de nosotros mismos en otra dimensión del ser.

Gustavo Solivellas dice: Un pensamiento no paradójico me resulta casi insoportable, un pensamiento cerrado en sí mismo, coherente, que no admite la paradoja (Fernando Savater)

Cuando discutimos de algún asunto la razón no la tiene quien más grita sino el que es capaz de enlazar sus argumentos de modo adecuado.

Those who are long on logic, definitions, abstractions, and formulas are frequently short on a sense of the concrete.

I grew up as a computer scientist, and I've always been fascinated by algorithms.

Taking the third step before the first would be fatal.

You can win more arguments then you might think as a writer, even though you legally have no recourse, and your script can get muddied and altered in any way possible. You can use reason, logic, and passion to argue persuasively for a case in your favor.

We apply law to facts. We don't apply feelings to facts.

I care about facts. I don't care about your feelings.

There are areas of philosophy that are important, but I think of them as being subsumed by other fields. In the case of descriptive philosophy, you have literature or logic, which, in my view, is really mathematics.

I'm a firm believer in science.

Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it. Do not count on them. Leave them alone.

Arithmetic! Algebra! Geometry! Grandiose trinity! Luminous triangle! Whoever has not known you is without sense!

Pure mathematics is on the whole distinctly more useful than applied. For what is useful above all is technique, and mathematical technique is taught mainly through pure mathematics.

The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.

A close friend of mine described me as a radical pragmatist. I embrace this no-nonsense distinction wholeheartedly. It is a character trait that matches the sense of myself I've had from as far back as I can remember. I am not one who goes in much for magical thinking. I don't believe in destiny, fate, or things like divine guidance, either.

The logic is often far-fetched - how does medical marijuana affect interstate commerce? - and some conservatives would like judges to start throwing out federal laws wholesale on commerce clause grounds. The court once again said no thanks.

Proof is an idol before whom the pure mathematician tortures himself.

Nothing exists from whose nature some effect does not follow.

Lacking the direct test of success or failure, the voter tends to turn, not to those politicians whose measures have the best chance of success, but to those with the ability to 'sell' their propaganda. Without grasping logical chains of deduction, the average voter will never be able to discover the error that the ruler makes.

Why shouldn't truth be stranger than fiction? Fiction, after all, has to make sense.

It's hard to find logic in things sometimes. That's why I can't analyze things too much, because it often doesn't make much sense.

Politics is not an exact science. That's why in school I loved mathematics. Everything in mathematics was clear to me.