Quotes About Logic

Unfortunately it's an incontrovertible fact that sound common sense flies out of the window as soon as love comes in through the door.

common sense flies out the window as soon as love comes in through the door.

but then logic had never been my strong point.

En cuanto el amor entra en juego, el sentido común se esfuma.

If you eliminate all the logical solutions to a problem, then the illogical solution—even though it's impossible—has to be the right one.

Mõnikord võib mõistusevastane käitumine osutuda hoopiski ratsionaalseks.

You can't reason someone out of a notion that they didn't reason themselves into.

A distributed, decentralized network is more a process than a thing. In the logic of the Net there is a shift from nouns to verbs.

To demand that artificial intelligence be humanlike is the same flawed logic as demanding that artificial flying be birdlike, with flapping wings. Robots, too, will think different. Consider

Search his car for the bomb! He's got a logic bomb!

Human beings are powered by emotion, not by reason Study after study has proven that if the emotion centers of our brain are damaged in some way, we don't just lose the ability to laugh or cry, we lose the ability to make decisions.

My Father taught me how to be a man – and not by instilling in me a sense of machismo or an agenda of dominance. He taught me that a real man doesn't take, he gives; he doesn't use force, he uses logic; doesn't play the role of trouble-maker, but rather, trouble-shooter; and most importantly, a real man is defined by what's in his heart, not his pants.

Only an idiot guesses or reasons or deduces ,' the Professor said, patiently.

My logical mind simply can't make sense of the ability to see things before they even happen. However, experience has shown me that there is a lot more to reality than that which is generally considered "logical.

An excess of reason is itself a form of madness

Without naïveté, father and son would have been defeated; had they aimed lower, according to the logic of probability, they would have failed.

Simplest explanation usually the right one

The night is in no way the work of reason, nor it is deduced from experience. It is experience itself.

Levi always said if you heard hoofbeats, expect to see horses, not zebras.

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.

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

Arithmetic is numbers you squeeze from your head to your hand to your pencil to your paper till you get the answer.

Arithmetic is numbers you squeeze from your head to your hand to your pencil to your paper until you get the right answer.

If, adhering closely to the absolute, we try to avoid all difficulties by a stroke of the pen, and insist with logical strictness that in every case the extreme must be the object, and the utmost effort must be exerted in that direction, such a stroke of the pen would be a mere paper law, not by any means adapted to the real world.