Quotes About Logic

The inseparability of junk science from junk thought is evinced by the telltale marks of endemic illogic coupled, in many instances, with deliberate manipulativeness. The first and most fundamental warning sign is an inability to distinguish between coincidence and causation--a basic requirement for scientific literacy.

Twentieth-century philosophy is not unique in its ability to confuse puzzles with problems.

The dangers of sophistry and scholasticism are present in the possibility of philosophy itself.

What drives pure reason to efforts that seem to have neither end nor result?

It's a matter of logical structure: what is, just is, and any claim about what ought to be is a claim about our own wishes and desires. Why ever should we imagine that the two would be related?

On a library bookshelf, thought progresses in a way that is logical but also dumbfounding, mysterious, irresistible.

Victims suggest innocence. And innocence, by the inexorable logic that governs all relational terms, suggests guilt.

The belief that love is a finite essence that will eventually run out holds a certain logic for me even now, even if I am supposed to know better.

Logic and people who subscribed to conspiracy theories were often strangers to each other.

Wars are won by heads not hearts.

Wars are won with heads, not hearts.

Ironically, her logical, if demeaning, reply is the only one that comforts me.

The mind wants to understand things—it's a miracle. We make logic jumps every day—images we see are interpreted. We make natural assumptions to form an understanding

You can't put rubbish into a computer and get something good out.

Math is sometimes called the science of patterns.

My background is basically scientific math. My Dad was a physicist, so I have it in my blood somewhere. Scientific method is very important to me. I think anything that contradicts it is probably not true.

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.

The intellectually sophisticated person is indifferent to all genuine individuality, because relationships and reactions result from it which cannot be exhausted with logical operations.

Persuasion is clearly a sort of demonstration, since we are most fully persuaded when we consider a thing to have been demonstrated.

Plane geometry is sort of the key course where you learn about proving things and abstraction.

Im a soulless lawyer. Give me any opinion and I can argue it.

Logic only gives man what he needs, " he stammered. "Magic gives him what he wants.

Numbers are important to the life, you better stay good at arithmetics.

I have tried to be very rational, although I know love and hate are not rational and explained feelings.