Quotes About Logic

Reason is a very light rider, and easily shook off.

It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into.

The highway cop said, "Walk a straight line." I said, "Well, Officer Pythagoras, the closest you could ever come to achieving a straight line would be making an electroencephalogram of your own brain waves." He said, "You're under arrest. You have the right to remain silent. Do you wish to retain that right?" I thought, "Oooh, a paradox!"

Let him make use of instinct who cannot make use of reason.

The dangerous thing about hate is that it seems so reasonable." --from The Chalk Garden

The dangerous thing about hate is that it seems so reasonable.

Cuál es la lógica entre las cosas? Realmente ninguna. Somos nosotros los que buscamos una entre un segmento y otro de vida. Pero ese intento de dar forma a lo que no la tiene, de dar forma al caos, sólo saben llevarlo a buen puerto los buenos escritores.

Reason is not measured by size or height, but by principle.

every event whatsoever has a prior cause, whether known or not.

But it was useless to try to explain him in terms of Good and Evil. They were no more than baroque abstractions. Good Business and Bad Business were the elements of the new theology. Dimitrios was not evil. He was logical and consistent; as logical and consistent in the European jungle as the poison gas called Lewisite and the shattered bodies of children killed in the bombardment of an open town.

Though the individual himself may change his images as gradually as time passes, he does not like to have others change them for him before he is ready. That is why people shout and become anxious during an argument. The better the logic of the opponents, the more anxious they make the individual for the safety of his cherished images, and the louder he shouts to defend them.

The behavior of running code is unambiguous.

Two objects are equal only if the variables containing the object references point to the same object.

If the two values have different types, try to convert them into the same type and then compare them

The type of undefined is undefined. Why?

An expression is anything that evaluates to a value. 3+4

A function without a return statement returns undefined.

Booleans are named after George Boole, an English mathematician who invented Boolean logic. You'll

You can use arguments to create a function that accepts a variable number of arguments, or create a function that does different things depending on the number of arguments passed to it. Let's

The Greeks invented logic but were not fooled by it.

Bonhoeffer had always struggled with the "problem" of being charming. He mistrusted it and wanted the words and logic of what he said to be the only things to which others responded.

Bonhoeffer openly thought things through and taught his students to do the same. They followed lines of reasoning to their logical conclusions and considered every angle to have a sense of absolute thoroughness, so that nothing depended on mere emotion.

You can speak of the ethical foundations of science, but you cannot speak of the scientific foundations of ethics.

Science without math is religion