Quotes About Logic

The true miracle is that abstract considerations of logic lead to a unique theory that predicts and describes a vast universe full of the amazing variety that we see.

can God make a stone so heavy that he can't lift it?

A scientific law is not a scientific law, if it holds only when some supernatural being decides not to intervene

as we all know, decisions are often not rational or are based on a defective analysis of the consequences of the choice. That is why the world is in such a mess.

In conclusion, rapid space travel and travel back in time can't be ruled out according to our present understanding. They would cause great logical problems, so let's hope there's a Chronology Protection Law to prevent people going back and killing their parents.

The basic assumption of science is scientific determinism.

Hot?rârile noastre sunt adesea iraÈ›ionale sau se bazeaz? pe o analiz? incorect? a consecinÈ›elor alegerii. De aceea în lume e atâta dezordine.

The beauty of religious mania is that it has the power to explain everything. Once God (or Satan) is accepted as the first cause of everything which happens in the mortal world, nothing is left to chance...logic can be happily tossed out the window.

Nightmares exist outside of logic, and there's little fun to be had in explanations; they're antithetical to the poetry of fear.

What I'm saying is that I'm trying to find rational reasons to explain irrational feelings, and that's neveer a good sign.

Remember in elementary school you were told that in case of fire you have to line up quietly in a single file from smallest to tallest? What is the logic in that? What, do tall people burn slower?

Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth.'

It's just that I take riddling seriously. I was taught that the ability to solve them indicates a sane and rational mind.

Es la regla Sherlock: cuando eliminas lo imposible, lo que queda, por improbable que sea, es la respuesta.

I've spent my whole life doing some things because they were logical and not doing others because they were not. I've seen what happens when people act on intuition, or for illogical reasons. Sometimes the results are ludicrous and embarrassing; more often they are simply horrible. But here I am, just the same, behaving like a crackbrained crystal gazer.

Plus, dreams don't have to be logical, do they? Dreams are poems from the subconscious.

Sane people don't sacrifice children on the altar of probability. That's not science, it's superstition.

That had to be the answer. When you heard hoofbeats, you didn't think zebras.

Feelings are invulnerable to rational thought.

Deduce is absurd and dangerous

His so-fucking-vivid imagination rarely gave him the horrors, but when it did, God help him. God help him once it was warmed up. It was not only warmed up now, it was hot and running on full choke. That there was no sense at all in what he was thinking made not a whit of difference in the dark. In the dark, rationality seemed stupid and logic a dream. In the dark he thought with his skin.

There is nothing left in your right brain, and there is nothing right in your left brain..

When life throws a lemon at you, you throw it straight back at life and miss completely. That's my logic.

Just do what makes sense.