Quotes About Logic

Violence is the ultimate boundary force on behavior; this, if you can understand how the logic of violence will change, you can usefully predict where people will be dropping or picking up the equivalent of one-hundred-dollar bills in the future.

He let out a short laugh. "You sound like Sherlock Holmes. You gonna pull out a magnifying glass? A pipe, maybe?

Everything we do is for a reason.

Logic told him that being filthy had nothing to do with the strength of your heart or the functioning of your lungs.

idealism mistakenly imputes a logic and rationality to culture

Crucial decisions in business are taken as much for emotional reasons as for logical ones, perhaps even more so. The tabulators inspired a level of emotion in Flint and in other powerful American businessmen that did indeed make these people feel certain they were witnessing a momentous breakthrough in humankind's mastery of information.

Science was constructed against a lot of nonsense

Everywhere all over Africa and South America ... you see these suburbs springing up. They represent the optimum of what people want. There's a certain sort of logic leading towards these immaculate suburbs. And they're terrifying, because they are the death of the soul ... This is the prison this planet is being turned into.

Koans offer the possibility that you could free the mind in one jump, without passing through stages or any pretense at logical steps. In the territory that koans open up, we live down a level, before explanations occur, beneath the ground that fear is based on, before the wanting and the scrambling around for advantage, before there is a handle on the problem, before we were alienated from the world. A koan doesn't hide or even

May not Music be described as the Mathematics of sense, and Mathematics as the Music of reason?

May not music be described as the mathematics of the sense, mathematics as music of the reason?

This meant there could be no German rearmament; that meant there could be no equality of arms, and that in turn, by the convoluted logic of politics, meant there could be no disarmament.

If only I had been able to examine the evidence while it was fresh! But no: I had followed my prick instead. What would Sherlock Holmes have said?

Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add up.

Just because you've discerned doesn't mean that you shouldn't look to reality for some real-life confirmation. As one Jesuit said, "Trust your heart but use your head, too.

Two and two the mathematician continues to make four, in spite of the whine of the amateur for three, or the cry of the critic for five.

Two and two continue to make four, in spite of the whine of the amateur for three, or the cry of the critic for five.

Ockham's disposable razors

There is a reason and not a reason for everything.

In order to be a sound argument, however, two things are necessary: The argument must be valid, and its premises must be true.

Never reason from what you do not know. If you do, you will soon believe what is utterly against reason.

No amount of belief makes something a fact.

Those who believe without reason cannot be convinced by reason.

Throw away the Tarot deck and ignore the astrology column.