Quotes About Logic

Prime numbers are useful for writing codes and in America they are classed as Military Material and if you find one over 100 digits long you have to tell the CIA and they buy it off you for $10,000. But it would not be a very good way of making a living. Prime numbers are what is left when you have taken all the patterns away. I think prime numbers are like life. They are very logical but you could never work out the rules, even if you spent all your time thinking about them.

a living. Prime numbers are what is left when you have taken all the patterns away. I think prime numbers are like life. They are very logical but you could never work out the rules, even if you spent all your time thinking about them.

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The unwillingness of the rich guy to take advantage of being a rich guy for fear of looking like a rich guy was a chain of logic too Ouroborosian to ponder for too long.

you can't do anything absolutely by reason. That's because reason depends on postulates. Postulates defy proof and yet they are essential to reason.

post hoc ergo propter hoc…after this, therefore because of this.

Deberían dejarse guiar más por la razón».

Theism produces sloppy ways of thinking because it doesn't necessarily respect reason but instead favors fiction.

People mistakenly assume that their thinking is done by their head; it is actually done by the heart which first dictates the conclusion, then commands the head to provide the reasoning that will defend it.

Let's start by admitting that human beings don't always act rationally.

Everything we do, we do for a reason.

The facts, if not true, were well invented; the arguments, if not logical, were seductive.

If Dick's sister married Tom's brother what relation would Dick be to Tom's mother? That's the kind of thing, isn't it?' suggested Hoffman.

The cinema implies a total inversion of values, a complete upheaval of optics, of perspective and logic. It is more exciting than phosphorus, more captivating than love.

To invoke alien law when it agrees with one's own thinking, and ignore it otherwise, is not reasoned decisionmaking, but sophistry.

My father made no such division between faith and reason. He understood that the act of faith does not mean the end of thought.

When emotion is entirely left out of the reasoning picture, as happens in certain neurological conditions, reason turns out to be even more flawed than when emotion plays bad tricks on our decisions.

The Law is Reason free from Passion.

With respect to the requirement of art, the probable impossible is always preferable to the improbable possible.

Accordingly, the poet should prefer probable impossibilities to improbable possibilities.

The mathematical sciences particularly exhibit order symmetry and limitations; and these are the greatest forms of the beautiful.

For the essence of a riddle is to express true facts under impossible combinations.

It is impossible that there should be demonstration of absolutely everything; [for then] there would be an infinite regress, so that there would still be no demonstration.

There are, then, these three means of effecting persuasion. The man who is to be in command of them must, it is clear, be able (1) to reason logically, (2) to understand human character and goodness in their various forms, and (3) to understand the emotions-that is, to name them and