Quotes About Logic

Captain Vimes believed in logic, in much the same way as a man in a desert believes in ice – i.e., it was something he really needed, but this just wasn't the place for it.

When one hears hoofbeats, medical students are taught, one must think of horses, not zebras. But the doctor who sees my blood count will surely think of horses. He will arrive at a perfectly logical conclusion. It will no occur to him that, this time, it is truly a zebra galloping by.

The Cartesian point of moral epistemology: I'm angry, therefore I'm right.

Thus in life there is ever the intellectual and the emotional nature—the mind that reasons, and the mind that feels. Of one come the men of action—generals and statesmen; of the other, the poets and dreamers—artists all.

I think that Congress' ability to reason is fully equal to that of the judiciary.

I don't see the logic of rejecting data just because they seem incredible.

An action doesn't have to be wrong just because it is not logical. It doesn't have to be right just because it has its logic.

I don't have any great detail or logic or exact point that I look for in a film. It's just if I get a good sense from it and I feel that there is something interesting that we may be able to do with it, then I just kind of go for it.

There's a beauty to math. Math is so simple. It's just one step after the next.

It's more fun to arrive a conclusion than to justify it.

If it is not tempered by compassion, and empathy, reason can lead men and women into a moral void. (95)

We are not big believers in making decisions solely on the basis of the numbers. But we do think that ignoring what the numbers tell you is pretty silly.

Adjectives are not arguments.

if you're making sense, you've just unmade confusion.

Emotion apparently made fools of even geniuses.

Occam's razor: The simplest explanation that accommodates all variables is most likely the truth.

TIME IS THE ONLY TRUE GOD, AND I AM FOREVER. THEREFORE, I AM GOD. Your logic is flawed. Time is not forever. It is always. Past, Present, and Future. There was a time in the past when you did not exist. Therefore, you are not God. I CREATE. I DESTROY. With the whimsy of a spoiled child. YOU FAIL TO DIVINE THE MASTER DESIGN. EVEN THAT WHICH YOU CALL CHAOS HAS PATTERN AND PURPOSE.

Sometimes I think everybody else in the world knows something I don't know. Like they're all in on some kind of conspiracy and if I just knew that one secret thing, too, the things adults do that baffle me would make perfect sense. Other times I think I know something extra that the whole rest of the world doesn't know and that's why nothing they do makes sense. 'Cause they don't know it and all their actions stem from flawed logic. Unlike mine.

Fools and the dead are not governed by logic. Survivors are.

once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how unlikely, must be the truth.

What a stupid innovation! Skate blades. Indoor lakes. It had a perverse, fairy-tale logic, I thought, tying knives to your feet and carving out over frozen water.

Never go shopping for kiwis in a shoe store.

Everyone had a reason for everything they did, even if that reason was sometimes stupidity.

The power of the people and the power of reason are one.