Quotes About Logic

No longer can we be satisfied with a life where the heart has its reasons which reason cannot know. Our hearts must know the world of reason, and reason must be guided by an informed heart.

its very nature, scientific investigation takes for granted such assumptions as that: there is a physical world existing independently of our minds; this world is characterized by various objective patterns and regularities; our senses are at least partially reliable sources of information about this world; there are objective laws of logic and mathematics that apply to the objective world outside our minds;

Art and science have their meeting point in method.

So when you see Captain Picard or Commander Sisko decide that logic, reason, and communication are the way to solve problems and not turn to violence, then we were telling something to our audience that needs to be said on a regular basis.

The average citizen is the world's most efficient censor. His own mind is the greatest barrier between him and the facts. His own "logic-proof compartments," his own absolutism are the obstacles which prevent him from seeing in terms of experience and thought rather than in terms of group reaction.

used Occam's razor—the principle that given more than one explanation, you should begin by choosing the simplest one—and plausible reasoning to arrive at a neat formula for determining the "correct" price of a warrant.

was learning to work things out for myself, not limited by prompting from teachers, parents, or the school curriculum. I relished the power of pure thought combined with the logic and predictability of science. I loved visualizing an idea, and then making it happen.

Education has made all the difference for me. Mathematics taught me to reason logically and to understand numbers, tables, charts, and calculations as second nature. Physics, chemistry, astronomy, and biology revealed wonders of the world, and showed me how to build models and theories to describe and to predict. This paid off for me in both gambling and investing.

But history shows that logic launched from introspection alone lacks thrust, can travel only so far, and usually heads in the wrong direction.

Convenient mythologies require neither evidence nor logic.

Surely: the adverb of a man without an argument.

Two paradoxes are better than one they may even suggest a solution.

Science attempts to find logic and simplicity in nature. Mathematics attempts to establish order and simplicity in human thought.

There is something about poetry beyond prose logic, there is mystery in it, not to be explained but admired.

He said that the only thing that didn't lie because it simply couldn't was mathematics.

One can neither understand nor accept and respect others' logic, view, and insight before overcoming its ego.

One can understand sufficiently and precisely; however, it cannot always explain that simply as one understands love completely; whereas, it can't explain rightly and logically that.

Your logic, authentic, scientific, and rational response to your opponents will not affect, because of just their enmity. There is only one way left that you keep silence and a smile on their behavior; they will mentally die.

Her broken sentences hung in midair like the pendulums of several clocks, each ticking along at a different speed, each following its own logic and reaching its own conclusions, each rising up at a different moment, each hammering its bell at a different time....

That makes about as much sense as lopping off your foot to avoid twisting an ankle.

Will pain not be conquered by reason, when it is defeated by a smile?

Being simultaneously indifferent and insatiable is what narcissists do. It's the reason narcissists make excellent innovators. They don't stop, and they don't yield to logic or compassion.

Reason: The arithmetic of the emotions.

Business, to be successful, must be based on science, for demand and supply are matters of mathematics, not guesswork.