Quotes About Logic

What has been affirmed without proof can also be denied without proof.

Tous les chats sont mortels. Socrate est mortel. Donc Socrate est un chat.

Reason can wrestle and overthrow terror.

[A mathematician is a] scientist who can figure out anything except such simple things as squaring the circle and trisecting an angle.

It is remarkable how little concern men seem to have for logic, statistics, and even, indeed, survival: we live by emotion, prejudice, and pride."24

Serious poetry deals with the fundamental conflicts that cannot be logically resolved: we can state the conflicts rationally, but reason does not relieve us of them.

All religions are, in some basic sense, irrational.

American advertisers rely on 'essentially illogical' approaches to determine their advertising budgets.

I'm a mathematician and always have been, as far as I can remember. I don't remember when I first got involved with mathematics, but I think of myself always as a mathematician first.

I think facts remove assumptions.

The language of judicial decision is mainly the language of logic. And the logical method and form flatter that longing for certainty and for repose which is in every human mind. But certainty generally is illusion, and repose is not the destiny of man.

We now think of internal representation as great big vectors, and we do not think of logic as the paradigm for how to get things to work. We just think you can have these great big neural nets that learn, and so, instead of programming, you are just going to get them to learn everything.

The ideal reasoner, he remarked, would, when he had once been shown a single fact in all its bearings, deduce from it not only all the chain of events which led up to it but also all the results which would follow from it.

There is no room for political, personal or religious ideologies in science.

The resistance to science is idiotic.

Although many of us fear death, I think there is something illogical about it.

One never wants to do anything that's going to break that 'sculpture of the character' that's been done so far, or make anything that's been done so far become illogical in any way, so you always want to try to connect when you're doing a series of films that has a continuous character.

Music helps immensely with math skills, and math skills help immensely with music skills.

The logical thing is to implement the Arab Defense Agreement.

If there isn't a business logic to get to marketability, the chance of an idea's importance in the world is very low.

Deskilling devices - they make us dumber. We're immersed in a system that now requires the use of a cell phone just to get around, just to function, and so the logic of that cell phone has been imposed on us.

It is certain because it is impossible.

Logically, if there was a chance to improve and go to a bigger club, it would be a good opportunity, although there are few clubs bigger than Liverpool.

Blackjack is very scientific. There's always a right answer and a wrong answer. Do you take a card, increase your bet, bet big or bet small. There's absolutely a right and wrong answer.