Quotes About Logic

the truth is that grammar is always interesting, always useful. Mastering the logic of grammar contributes, in a mysterious way that again evokes some process of osmosis, to the logic of thought.

So if a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics; for in demonstrations, if his wit be called away never so little, he must begin again.

If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics.

Fortitude is the marshal of thought, the armor of the will, and the fort of reason.

Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.

sejarah menjadikan orang bijaksana, puisi menjadikan orang fasih lidah, matematika menjadikan orang cerdik, filsafat menyebabkan orang berpikir dalam, moral menjadikan orang bersikap sungguh-sungguh, logika dan ilmu berpidato menjadikan orang berani mengeluarkan pendapat.

For the things of this world cannot be made known without a knowledge of mathematics.

So if a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics.

Aristotle ... a mere bond-servant to his logic, thereby rendering it contentious...

Reasoning draws a conclusion, but does not make the conclusion certain, unless the mind discovers it by the path of experience.

And inquiries into nature have the best result when they begin with physics and end in mathematics.

The logic now in use serves rather to fix and give stability to the errors which have their foundation in commonly received notions than to help the search after truth. So it does more harm than good.

to apply scientific arguments to the question of God's existence, as if this were somehow a showstopper, is committing a category error.

to apply scientific arguments to the question of God's existence, as if this were somehow a showstopper, is committing a category error

Faith and reason are not, as many seem to be arguing today, mutually exclusive. They never have been. The letter to the Hebrews in the New Testament defines faith as 'the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of the things not seen.

What, to use Noble Laureate Wigner's classic phrase, accounts for the 'unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics'?

The slumber of reason breeds monsters.

Fantasy abandoned by reason produces impossible monsters

Le sens commun n'est pas si commun (Common sense is not so common)

Intelligence is not a science.

What's the odd one out between an egg, a drum, and a potato?' Ronan shook his head, mystified. 'You can beat an egg. You can beat a drum. But you can't beat a potato. D'you get it, do you?

One of the best things to come out of the home computer revolution could be the general and widespread understanding of how severely limited logic really is.

I don't believe in god, so I don't have to make elaborately sounded structures. ... Pain always produces logic, which is very bad for you. ... As for measure and other technical apparatus, that's just common sense: if you're going to buy a pair of pants you want them to be tight enough so everyone will want to go to bed with you. There's nothing metaphysical about it.

If this was sanity, being crazy made a lot more sense.