Quotes About Logic

Our brain is so full of nonsense there is no room for common sense.

Of course, there is no conceivable way of getting by reason from the proposition "I am losing interest in this" to the proposition "This is false.

No man can outrun Logic or Time.

Paradoxes are less paradoxical in their reference to truth than most of the most plausible axioms.

Paradox: Pinocchio says "My nose will grow" if it doesn't he is lying but it didn't grow and if it does he is telling the truth and it did?

The science of operations, as derived from mathematics more especially, is a science of itself, and has its own abstract truth and value.

Music is science. Everything is science. Because science is truth.

A philosopher goes where the truth leads and has no patience with mere emotion.

When a truth is necessary, the reason for it can be found by analysis, that is, by resolving it into simpler ideas and truths until the primary ones are reached.

Truth is stranger than fiction fiction has to make sense.

If proof were the standard of truth, fallacies would constitute the ultimate reality.

When you hear hoof beats, think horses before you think zebras.

All human behavior has a reason. All behavior is solving a problem.

Increasingly, the mathematics will demand the courage to face its implications.

Ian Malcolm, how do you do? I do maths." He

But absence of proof is not proof of absence.

The essence of verification is multiple lines of reasoning that converge at a single point.

Being too reasonable is a defect

Just as Hebrews 10:5-8 (Appendix A) says, this coming was not to be a sacrifice but was the opposite, it was anti-sacrificial.  Jesus did not come to fulfill the logic of the sacrificial system (either Jewish or pagan) but to expose it and put an end to its reign in our lives.

That was Eisman's logic: the logic of Wall Street's pecking order. Goldman Sachs was the big kid who ran the games in this neighborhood. Merrill Lynch was the little fat kid assigned the least pleasant roles, just happy to be a part of things. The game, as Eisman saw it, was crack the whip. He assumed Merrill Lynch had taken its assigned place at the end of the chain. On

He didn't worry about how screwed-up the market for some security became because he knew that eventually it would be disciplined by logic: Businesses either thrived or failed. Loans either were paid off or were defaulted upon.

He had little patience for the mystical, spiritual approach of computer programming.

Think for yourself along rational lines. Hypothesize, test against the evidence, never accept that a question has been answered as well as it ever will be.

There was so much confusion about the different terms," said Charlie. "In the course of trying to figure it out, we realize that there's a reason why it doesn't quite make sense to us. It's because it doesn't quite make sense." The