Quotes About Logic

But I still read Shaw on a regular basis. What I love is the nakedness of the polemic and the irresistible good humour. For me, 'Major Barbara' is the greatest of all the plays in that it starts from the rational and proceeds to the ecstatic in a spectacular way, and leaves you very confused if you cling to Euclidean logic.

Stated clearly enough, an idea may cancel itself out.

In so far as a scientific statement speaks about reality, it must be falsifiable; and in so far as it is not falsifiable, it does not speak about reality.

The system becomes logically closed when each of the logical implications which can be derived from any one proposition within the system finds its statement in another proposition in the same system.

When somebody says that all statements are false, the obvious problem is that as an assertion it's self-defeating.

A statement is persuasive and credible either because it is directly self-evident or because it appears to be proved from other statements that are so.

The principle of Sturgeon's Razor states that the simplest answer to any problem is 90% crap.

Statistics is the grammar of science.

Math is a language that you use to describe statistics, but really it's about collecting information and putting it in an order that makes sense.

I like - I love calculus. I love linear algebra, probability and statistics, that kind of stuff. I just really like that.

Statistics rarely drive me. Feelings, intuition, and gut instinct do.

It's the quality of our reasons for believing that make us intelligent and thoughtful individuals

Logically, such a nonoccurrence is just as much an event as an occurrence, but phenomenologically it is not.

What we call rational grounds for our beliefs are often extremely irrational attempts to justify our instincts.

Mathematics and Poetry are... the utterance of the same power of imagination, only that in the one case it is addressed to the head, in the other, to the heart.

The mathematics are usually considered as being the very antipodes of Poesy. Yet Mathesis and Poesy are of the closest kindred, for they are both works of the imagination.

Science is the knowledge of consequences, and dependence of one fact upon another.

Whereas the logical mode of thought can only manipulate the world view of given paradigm, intuition can inspire genuine creativity, since it is not shackled by the nagging analytical mind, which often serves only to intimidate imaginative thought.

Science is simply common sense at its best.

The scientific imagination always restrains itself within the limits of probability.

Logical consequences are the scarecrows of fools and the beacons of wise men.

Science is nothing but trained and organized common sense.

Science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic.

The difference between reality and fiction? Fiction has to make sense.