Quotes About Logic

And, fatigued by the merciless and enormous day, he lost his usual sane view of human intercourse, and felt that we exist not in ourselves, but in terms of each others' minds—a notion for which logic offers no support and which had attacked him only once before...

I didn't believe in such things. I believed in facts, science and, every once in a while, human beings.

It's not an exclamation point. There are no interjections in mathematics.

Yossarian knew that you had to be crazy to fly combat. But you couldn't fly combat if you were crazy. If you turned yourself in as crazy so that you couldn't fly combat that would clearly be the act of a sane person, so you couldn't really be crazy and you must fly combat. Yossarian knew all this and he recognized it as the "catch." It was Catch-22.

simple conveying of information to rational people.

TIP: When holding two long suits, one of which contains a sequence, you should lead the suit with the sequence.

The sounder your argument, the more satisfaction you get out of it.

No passion so effectually robs the mind of its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.

Merely fact-minded sciences make merely fact-minded people.

The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim.

The question of whether computers can think is just like the question of whether submarines can swim.

Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.

La vida es mucho más sencilla que esa lógica binaria de varitas mágicas que abren los ojos y conectan los corazones.

When the philosopher's argument becomes tedious, complicated, and opaque, it is usually a sign that he is attempting to prove as true to the intellect what is plainly false to common sense

There is science, logic, reason; there is thought verified by experience. And then there is California.

To refute the solipsist or the metaphysical idealist all that you have to do is take him out and throw a rock at his head: if he ducks he's a liar. His logic may be airtight but his argument, far from revealing the delusions of living experience, only exposes the limitations of logic.

Reason is and ought to be, as Hume said, the slave of the passions.

The whole of science is merely a refinement of everyday thinking.

The whole of science is merely a refinement of everyday thinking. —Albert Einstein

Many highly intelligent people are poor thinkers. Many people of average intelligence are skilled thinkers. The power of a car is separate from the way the car is driven.

Logic will never change emotion or perception.

Argument is meant to reveal the truth, not to create it.

Many highly intelligent people are poor thinkers. Many people of average intelligence are skilled thinkers. The power of the car is separate from the way the car is driven.

Most of the mistakes in thinking are inadequacies of perception rather than mistakes of logic.