Quotes About Logic

Every song has a composer, every book has an author, every car has a maker, every painting has a painter, and every building has a builder. So it isn't irrational to take this simple logic a little further and say that nature must have had a Maker. It would be irrational to believe that it made itself.

Every song has a composer, every book has an author, every car has a maker, every painting has a painter, and every building has a builder. So it isn't irrational to take this simple logic a little further and say that nature must have had a Maker. It would be irrational to believe that it made itself.

philosopher Kurt Gödel reached a similar conclusion in his 1931 "incompleteness theorem." We are thus left with the perplexing situation of being able to define a problem, to prove that a unique answer exists, and yet know that the answer can never be found.

Logic is not a science that discovers truths; it is just a collection of tautologies.

Propositions can only say how things are, not what they are.

Tautologies, according to Wittgenstein, are senseless, because, as they do not picture the world, they lack sense.

Wittgenstein calls tautologies and contradictions 'pseudo-propositions'; they are not real propositions, because real propositions can be either true or false.

The fear of slaves on the one hand, and the military potential of mobilizing slaves on the other, gave a peculiar twist to the logic of war in Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, and Maryland.

Communist interpretation is never wrong. Logicians will object in vain that a theory which exempts itself from all refutations escapes from the order of truth.

Charles Bascomb was a man who loved figures—the genuine, Arabic kind, that is.

No validation of our rationality - of our very sanity - can be accomplished using our rationality itself. How can a person operating within a system of beliefs, including beliefs about beliefs, get outside that system to determine whether it is rational? If your entire system becomes infected with madness, including the very rules by which you reason, then how can you ever reason your way out of your madness?

We are speaking to the intelligence of Canadians, not to their emotion.

We need to have an understanding of what causes what to happen in the world, and why.

If you believe in science, like I do, you believe that there are certain laws that are always obeyed.

There is something cheap about magic that works just because it is magic.

Chess is a thinking person's game. But you don't have to be smart to know what's funny! Lots of check, mate!

Christianity has always embraced both reason and faith.

I look back upon my Liberal political beliefs with a sort of wonder - as another exercise in self-involvement - rewarding myself for some superiority I could not logically describe.

Supernatural does not mean methodological stupidity.

Science operates in the natural, not the supernatural. In fact, I go so far as to state that there is no such thing as the supernatural or the paranormal.

People who believe in science have a hard time believing in ghosts and the supernatural.

Coding - everyone thinks it's a superpower. And so when you feel like, 'I've learned how to code,' and you say to your mom or the girl sitting next to you, 'I know how that app is built, I know the logic behind how that was created' - that's powerful.

Science stands for rational thought, faith for superstition and unreason.

This is indeed a clash of civilisations, not between Islam and Christendom but between reason and superstition.