Quotes About Logic

When we talk mathematics, we may be discussing a secondary language built on the primary language truly used by the central nervous system.

The presumption that Jesus who had wiped out the ancient bias against women in the common priesthood of the faithful, would reintroduce it in ministerial priesthood defies all logic. The contention that Jesus, who brought worship 'in spirit and in truth' and for whom love and service were the supreme characteristics of his ministry, would then introduce maleness as an essential requirement offends the inner consistency of the Gospel.

he felt the logic of grammar, and he thought he perceived how it spread out from itself, permeating the language and supporting human thought.

If I were asked to answer, in one sentence, the question 'What was Wittgenstein's biggest contribution to philosophy', I should answer 'His asking of the question "Can one play chess without the Queen?

Don't you sometimes wish that you had been born into the Age of Reason, instead of into the Age of the Ostensible Reason?

man is not a rational animal. He may have invented many social philosophies, but he remains incurably biological.

It is by logic that we prove. It is by intuition that we discover," said the mathematician Henri Poincare.l

You never know anything until you've proved it right." "Nonsense. You can't order life mathematically," retorted the Judge. "Most of the time you 'know' things without factual evidence." "I'm Coleridge's 'thought-benighted skeptic,'" said Ellery unhappily. "I question everything. Sometimes I even question the results of my own thinking. My mental life is very involved.

There is pattern but no logic in criminality. It is your task to cohere confusion, to bring order out of chaos.

is the peculiar gift of the truly great detective that he can apply to the inexorable rules of logic three catalyzers: an abnormal observation of events, a knowledge of the human mind and an insight into the human heart.

The voices of cold reason were talking, as usual, to deaf ears.

It doesn't have to make sense, it just has to sound like it does.

But when you begin with bullshit the conclusion you reach is still bullshit.

Jemma got up and perched on the arm of Isidore's chair. "Marriage is a great destroyer of logic, but I do think it's a benefit to begin with a sane husband.

[Physics is] a good framework for thinking. … Boil things down to their fundamental truths and reason up from there.

The computer is no better than its program.

It is not I who am strong, it is reason, it is truth.

The immense advantage of positive science over theology, metaphysics, politics, and judicial right consists in this—that, in place of the false and fatal abstractions set up by these doctrines, it posits true abstractions which express the general nature and logic of things, their general relations, and the general laws of their development.

True beliefs are effects no less than false. In this respect magic and mathematics are on a level.

Don't take the wrong side of an argument just because your opponent has taken the right side

Reason always cuts a poor figure beside sentiment; the one being essentially restricted, like everything that is positive, while the other is infinite.

Reason shapes the future, but superstition infects the present.

For Ayn had built up a comprehensive systematic philosophy, which she calls Objectivism, and which, once you accept its first premises, is the most closely reasoned, rigorously logical and consistently interlocking world view and explanation since the great synthesis of Thomas Aquinas.

Now according to German logic, a declaration of war was found to be unnecessary because of imaginary bombings