Quotes About Logic

I love music because it's so fecking brilliant. Music is math, and math is the structure of everything and pretty much perfect.

I am drawn to the wild not because it is wild but because it is sensible, logical, ordered, stable, resilient. Wild nature is everything we're struggling to regain.

Whatsoever is contrary to nature is contrary to reason, and whatsoever is contrary to reason is absurd.

The laws of Nature are written in the language of mathematics...the symbols are triangles, circles and other geometrical figures, without whose help it is impossible to comprehend a single word.

I conclude that there is as much sense in nonsense as there is nonsense in sense.

Human beings are the only creatures who are able to behave irrationally in the name of reason.

. . . to know the order of nature, and regard the universe as orderly is the highest function of the mind.

Complex, statistically improbable things are by their nature more difficult to explain than simple, statistically probable things.

To call everything that appears illogical, fantasy, fairy tale, or chimera would be practically to admit not understanding nature.

Men became scientific because they expected Law in Nature, and they expected Law in Nature because they believed in a Law Giver.

Religions are conclusions for which the facts of nature supply no major premises.

It is always the moralists who do the most harm. Abortion is the logical outcome of civilization, only the jungle gives birth and moulders away as nature decrees. Man plans.

That is the logical tight-rope on which we have to walk if we wish to interpret nature.

Philosophy ought to be able to give an account of rationality that is not wholly detached from science's account of nature, even if it is not straightforwardly reducible to it.

Reason deceives us more often than does nature.

Galileo wrote that 'the book of nature is written in the language of mathematics; without its help it is impossible to comprehend a single word of it.'

Nature is as it is because this is the only possible nature consistent with itself.

It is in the nature of foolish reasonings to seem good to the foolish reasoner.

How it chanced that a man who reasoned on his premises so ably, should assume his premises so foolishly, is one of the great mysteries of human nature.

He who takes nature for his guide, is not easily beaten out of his argument

Many things complicated by nature are restored by reason.

Nature's tears are reason's merriment.

To a rational being it is the same thing to act according to nature and according to reason.

What is impossible by the nature of things is not confirmed by any law.