Quotes About Logic

Like the hostages, I can't find any excuses for my jailers, even if some of them are rootless exiles. They change continuously as if there's a factory producing new versions all the time. They're like nouns and verbs ungoverned by rules, indeclinable, or arithmetical problems where numbers and logic interweave and every time the teacher and the student think of solving them together their brain cells

The danger of exchanging the necessary insecurity of philosophical thought for the total explanation of an ideology and its [worldview], is not even so much the risk of falling for some usually vulgar, always uncritical assumption as of exchanging the freedom inherent in man's capacity to think for the straight-jacket of logic with which man can force himself almost as violently as he is forced by some outside power.

the general contempt for even the most obvious rules of common sense.

De belangrijkste handicap van de totalitaire propaganda is dat ze deze hunker van de massa's naar een volledig consistente, begrijpelijke en voorspelbare wereld niet kan bevredigen zonder ernstig in conflict te raken met het gezond verstand.

Experience cannot beat logic, and interpretations of observational evidence which are not in line with the laws of logical reasoning are no refutation of these but the sign of a muddled mind (or would one accept someone's observational report that he had seen a bird that was red and non-red all over at the same time as a refutation of the law of contradiction rather than the pronouncement of an idiot?).

Most people oversimplify Occam's razor to mean the simplest answer is usually correct. But the real meaning, what the Franciscan friar William of Ockham really wanted to emphasize, is that you shouldn't complicate, that you shouldn't "stack" a theory if a simpler explanation was at the ready. Pare it down. Prune the excess.

True," Adam said. "But I can read numbers, Bob. Logan's overall score was a six-point-seven. Jimmy only has a score of six-point-four. Even with today's new math, six-point-seven is greater than six-point-four. I can show you with a graph if that would help." Gaston

Once you touch the biographies of human beings, the notion that political beliefs are logically determined collapses like a pricked balloon.

My heroes were always a combination of Captain Kirk and Mr Spock. You have to be ruled by logic, but if you're only ruled by logic and you don't touch your emotions, you will make the wrong instinctive call.

I cannot live on myths; somehow, science convinces me more easily. I am prone to lean towards science, ethics, and philosophy rather than myth, religion, and rituals.

Happy is he who can trace effects to their causes.

It is such a complex matter we live within, it is impossible to track logic and decision making really, so therefore each choice can actually only be seen as coincidence.

I'll trade glib for common sense any day.

I have great faith in the intelligence of the American viewer and reader to put two and two together and come up with four.

No, you used nouns and verbs together in a pleasing but illogical format.

There's a difference between logic and what maybe people see when they're presented evidence and justice and that they're not always together.

Scientists like ripping problems apart, collecting as much data as possible and then assembling the parts back together to make a decision.

There is science, logic, reason; there is thought verified by experience. And then there is California.

If black boxes survive air crashes - why don't they make the whole plane out of that stuff?

Faith and reason are the shoes on your feet. You can travel further with both than you can with just one.

Astrology is a sickness, not a science ... It is a tree under the shade of which all sorts of superstitions thrive.

Logic chases truth up the tree of grammar.

trust your heart but use your head

A half truth, like half a brick, is always more forcible as an argument than a whole one. It carries better.