Quotes About Logic

It's my belief that you can take everyone down a logical path if you take them slowly enough, and the trouble is that mathematical brains can get scrambled a little bit on the way. You get a bad teacher, it messes you up for the rest of the journey.

A computer is not really like us. It is a projection of a very small part of ourselves: that portion devoted to logic, order, rule and clarity.

I was a pedantic child. I'd get really annoyed at the logic of small things that don't bother anyone else.

Elephants are like humans. They are very smart, very logical.

I constantly do puzzle books. Smash through them. My iPad's full of them. Logic puzzles. Bridges. Slitherlink.

I'm not about to go out and buy a snake for a pet. I mean, I may have faced a few fears but I'm not insane.

I'm practical, very data-driven, and process-oriented. If I look at a radar and see a giant green blob coming toward me, I'm thinking it's probably going to snow.

It was the same industrial logic- protein is protein- that made feeding rendered cow parts back to cows seem like a sensible thing to do, until scientists figured out that this practice was spreading BSE [mad cow disease].

Monoculture is where the logic of nature collides with the logic of economics; which logic will ultimately prevail can never be in doubt.

He who establishes his argument by noise and command, shows that his reason is weak.

The man who establishes his argument by noise and command knows that his reason is weak.

The marvellous logic of the mad which seems to mock that of the logicians because it resembles it so exactly, or rather because it is exactly the same, and because at the secret heart of madness, at the core of so many errors, so many absurdities, so many words and gestures without consequence, we discover, finally, the hidden perfection of a language.

I had been mad enough to study reason; I was reasonable enough to study madness.

Qui expérimente ? Le corps. Qui invente ? Lui. Et qui flotte, court et vole, en ivresse archangélique lorsque l'intuition bienheureuse le baigne et le fait léviter ? Le corps, oui, le corps encore. Nu. Confite en logique et en mémoire, toutes deux machinales – laissez-les donc aux machines –, l'intelligence reste bête et lourde sans lui, ailé. Ascension : il vient d'appareiller

There isn't an equation that can confirm something as self-evident (to us humans) as "muggy weather is uncomfortable" or "mothers are older than their daughters." There has been some progress made in translating this sort of information into mathematical logic, but to catalog the common sense of a four-year-old child would require hundreds of millions of lines of computer code. As Voltaire once said, "Common sense is not so common.

si un gato puede comerse un ratón en un minuto, ¿cuánto tiempo tardan un millón de gatos en comerse un millón de ratones? Respuesta: un minuto.)

We all obey laws that exist within our personal reality. Asleep, we're still dreaming but the laws are different. If laws exist at all, the law of gravity may not exist in our sleeping dreams, the laws of physics are ignored and basic logic becomes irrelevant. Our waking dream follows physical laws and social and civic laws.

to me it was looking like one of those logic problems that end up with the proposition that all men are Socrates, and Socrates is a rubber chicken.

Jednak?e m?drzy ludzie w tym w?a?nie celu maj? rozum, ?eby si? nim pos?ugiwa? w podobnie skomplikowanych przypadkach.

My speeches in no way resemble verbal muck, as you have been pleased to put it in the presence of a lady, but rather a sequence of tightly packed syllogisms, the merit of which would be appreciated by such connoisseurs as Sextus Empiricus, Martianus Capella,4 and, for all I know, Aristotle himself.

B]ut pain doesn't listen to reason, it has it's own reason, which is not reasonable.

Isn't that exactly the definition of biography? An artificial logic imposed on an 'incoherent succession of images'?

It takes a very great intelligence to breathe logical meaning into meaningless ideas.

Quando parla il cuore non sta bene che la ragione trovi da obiettare.