Quotes About Logic

When I think of Sherlock Holmes, I think of a guy who can wander into the confusion of life and sort of pluck out answers at will.

I wanted to separate data from programs, because data and instructions are very different.

I felt that chess... is a science in the form of a game... I consider myself a scientist. I wanted to be treated like a scientist.

All too often when liberals cite statistics, they forget the statisticians' warning that correlation is not causation.

Emotions may win arguments, but they don't win wars.

Standing athwart ineffective, feel-good legislation shouting, 'Stop!' is seen as a betrayal of those struggling to get their footing on the lowest rung of the economic ladder. Yet raising the minimum wage hacks the lowest rungs off the ladder altogether. But economic logic doesn't wash with liberals who are intent on inflaming class warfare.

Was it probably true that reasoning beings were equal? It seemed more like a belief than a fact, even if I agreed with it. If you followed logic all the way back to its origin, did you inevitably end up at point of illogic, an article of faith?

If you followed logic all the way back to its origin, did you inevitable end up at a point of illogic, an article of faith? Even an indisputable fact must be chosen as the place to start reasoning, given weight by a mind that believed in its worth.

you twist logic to your own purposes." "It's a lawyer's duty," sniffed Phloxia,

That was basic hound logic, learned from Faffy: if you ran, you were prey.

Oh, you humans may prefer empathy and mercy, but that's like intuiting the answer to an equation: you still have to go back and work the problem to be certain you were right. We can come to genuinely moral conclusions by our own paths.

Where's the logic in dying?

You often show yourself without any faculty of deductive reasoning.

There can be a reason for a reason already supplied and a reason for the reason for the initial reason.

I]f you live today you breathe in nihilism. In or out of the Church it's the gas you breathe. If I hadn't had the Church to fight it with or to tell me the necessity of fighting it, I would be the stinkingest logical positivist you ever saw right now

I also noticed that as you go to sleep the ideas continue, but they become less and less logically interconnected. You don't notice that they're not logically connected until you ask yourself, "What made me think of that?" and you try to work your way back, and often you can't remember what the hell did make you think of that!

When you have got a new idea, read Aristotle to find out what's wrong with it.

Common sense is as rare as genius, - is the basis of genius

Skepticism is unbelief in cause and effect.

If you don't abide by scientific principles, chaos will ensue.

The reason we remember song lyrics more easily than poetry is that music is stored in the cleaner, mathematical side of our brains. Poetry is shoveled into the cluttered, creative side.

It is impossible to do math and be frightened at the same time.

Common sense is the lie codified and vulgarized.

What I believe in my heart must make sense in my mind.