Quotes About Logic

Surreal fiction is a sophisticated art form. Events happen divorced from conventional logic, as events in a dream may happen. But unlike dreams, everything in the story contributes to an overall coherent point, impression or emotion.

Certainly nothing is unnatural that is not physically impossible.

Theology is unnecessary.

One of the things I particularly enjoyed doing was taking raw sound from locations during the film, like the candy machine, and writing pieces of music to go with them, which is totally unnecessary within the context of the film, because they have their own logic.

In the ordinary affairs of life we do not require nor expect demonstrative evidence, because it is inconsistent with the nature of matters of fact, and to insist on its production would be unreasonable and absurd.

It's expected of novels that they should explain the world and create the illusion that things are ultimately logical and coherent. But that's not what I see around me. Often, events remain mysterious and unresolved, and our emotions reach no catharsis.

Panic implies that there is no rational thought taking place. That we are frozen and incapable of adjusting. Powerless to logic, and subject to seemingly unthinkable behavior.

The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt.

No matter how correct a mathematical theorem may appear to be, one ought never to be satisfied that there was not something imperfect about it until it also gives the impression of being beautiful.

Facts are stupid until brought into connection with some general law.

The discipline, particularly in these urban schools for the poor, it's not controlled by the administration - they're controlled by the police. This is an expression of a racist logic that has now seeped directly into schools.

If the world were a logical place men would ride sidesaddle.

If we were logical, the future would be bleak, indeed. But we are more than logical. We are human beings, and we have faith, and we have hope, and we can work.

Many of our deepest motives come, not from an adult logic of how things work in the world, but out of something that is frozen from childhood.

You can be totally rational with a machine. But if you work with people, sometimes logic often has to take a backseat to understanding.

The aim of scientific work is truth. While we internally recognise something as true, we judge, and while we utter judgements, we assert.

A critic is a man who creates nothing and thereby feels qualified to judge the work of creative men. There is logic in this; he is unbiased, he hates all creative people equally.

Logic is one thing, the human animal another. You can quite easily propose a logical solution to something and at the same time hope in your heart of hearts it won't work out.

Moving from an objective statement of fact to a subjective statement of value does not work, because it leaves open questions that have not been answered.

I do not take things to the heart. I calculate and I do what needs to be done. If I were to start acting emotionally, it would destroy my work.

Human rationality depends critically on sophisticated emotionality. It is only because our emotional brain works so well that our reasoning can work at all.

If people were possessed by reason, running marathons would never work. But we are not creatures of reason. We are creatures of passion.

If something is irrational, that means it won't work. It's usually unrealistic.

Production is not the application of tools to materials, but logic to work.