Quotes About Logic

Y pensar que hay gente tan ignorante que piensa que un loco no tiene argumentos!

It's easy to make up weird stuff. It gets trickier when you want the weird stuff to be interesting and make sense.

Do you know why I love mathematics? Because it blew your mind for free when you couldn't get drugs? Eccles snorted in surprise. Well, yes, but there's another reason.

Written words, if carefully laid down, represent the civilized ideal of reason.

Consciousness and logic are not reliable standards. —COGITORS, Fundamental Postulate

Logical enlightenment will always defeat emotional ignorance, although the battle is not necessarily pretty. —mission statement, Denali Research Facility

Logic and reason are deceptive. They can lead a person to lose his soul. —MANFORD TORONDO, speech on Salusa Secundus

If stated reasons don't sit well with your conscience or stand the test of logic, look for deeper motivations.

All his life, Sherlock Holmes had believed that when one had eliminated the impossible, whatever remained —however improbable— must be the truth. Now he understood that when the impossible was too intractable to be eliminated, one had to revise one's opinion of the limits of the possible.

Aristotelian

As is so often the case with a legend, every incident has two possible interpretations, the plausible and the one that is molded to suit the making of the myth. Man is a romantic at heart and will always put aside dull, plodding reason for the excitement of an enigma. As Doc had pointed out, mystery, not logic, is what gives us hope and keeps us believing in a force greater than our own insignificance.

In this world are very few things made from logic alone. It is illogical for man to be too logical. Some things we must just let stand. The mystery is more important than any possible explanation. The searcher after truth must search with humanity. Ruthless logic is the sign of a limited mind. The truth can only add to the sum of what you know, while a harmless mystery left unexplored often adds to the meaning of life. When a truth is not so important, it is better left as a mystery.

In this world there are very few things made from logic alone. It is illogical for man to be too logical. Some things we must just let stand. The mystery is more important than any possible explanation.

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Logic was puny in the face of my wrath. Logic was puny and magic was mighty: I had just gotten rebirthed, refilled and renewed, and was fast on my way to resentful.

The western mind makes definitions; it draws lines.

Buck had lobbied for a banjo player but Lane said they cost too much, which made no fucking sense to Buck because a banjo's got fewer strings than a damn guitar.

The cure for a fallacious argument is a better argument, not the suppression of ideas.

But I try not to think with my gut. If I'm serious about understanding the world, thinking with anything besides my brain, as tempting as that might be, is likely to get me into trouble.

When a religious couple wrote to Sagan about fulfilled prophecies, he wrote back in May 1996 :] If 'fulfilled prophecy' is your criterion, why do you not believe in materialistic science, which has an unparalleled record of fulfilled prophecy? Consider, for example, eclipses.

When we are self-indulgent and uncritical, when we confuse hopes and facts, we slide into pseudoscience and superstition.

Science is more than a body of knowledge; it is a way of thinking.

The idea of science as a method rather than as a body of knowledge is not widely appreciated outside of science, or indeed in some corridors inside of science.

Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge