Quotes About Logic

Because, my friend, the more prosaic explanation is nearly always more probable.

You see," he said sadly, "you have no instincts." "It was intelligence you were requiring just now," I pointed out. "The two often go together," said Poirot enigmatically.

Si se estudia un problema con orden y método, no hay dificultad alguna en resolverlo (Hércules Poirot)

It is always wise to suspect everybody until you can prove logically, and to your own satisfaction, that they are innocent." -- Hercule Poirot

There's no reason why women shouldn't behave like rational beings," Simon asserted stolidly. Poirot said dryly: "Quite frequently they do. That is even more upsetting!

He had to deal with the physical world and not the psychic. It was his job to track down the murderer. And to do that he required no guidance from the spirit world.

methods of Hercule Poirot. I do not run to and fro, making

A madman is as logical and reasoned in his actions as a sane man—given his peculiar biased point of view.

If one approaches a problem with order and method there should be no difficulty in solving it—none whatever,' said Poirot severely.

Progress by elimination," said Sir Charles.

But me, I am old-fashioned. I use the old methods. I work only with the little grey cells.

ah, sim; temo que nosso amigo de devonshire não tenha usado suas pequenas células cinzentas. mediu as pegadas, mas deixou de refletir e organizar as ideias com a ordem e o método necessários.

If you would use your grey cells, and see the whole case clearly as I do, you too would perceive it, my friend.

If the fact will not fit the theory—let the theory go.

The thing people don't seem to want anywhere, nowadays," said Bob, "is anyone who's got a bit of common sense. I've never been a brainy chap?well, you know that well enough, Ali?but I often think that that's what the world really needs?just a bit of common sense.

Faith can't be reasoned with. Otherwise it would've been called Fact.

I think Chinese leadership is trying to tell the world they have another set of logic or reasoning or values which are different from yours. Of course, I don't think they believe that. It's just an argument that's made when you can't confront the truth and facts. They really want to maintain power.

The United States has figured out a way to bend a false interpretation of Christianity to undergird, and make sense of, a logic of White supremacy and racial hierarchy.

We need to be pro-science we have to go back to science.

The rule of reason is the true sovereign in the American system.

Homo logicus are driven by an irresistible desire to understand how things work. By contrast, Homo sapiens have a strong desire for success. Programmers also want to succeed, but they will frequently accept failure as the price to pay for understanding.

Computer literacy, however, is really a euphemism for forcing human beings to stretch their thinking to understand the inner workings of application logic, rather than having software-enabled products stretch to meet people's usual ways of thinking.

This seems scientific and disarmingly undogmatic, but it ignores the fact that it is impossible to prove something doesn't exist.

I propose to consider the question, "Can machines think?"