Quotes About Logic

My brain doesn't work very well, in terms of mathematics. I'm not one of those people who can just spout off numbers for things, if numbers are thrown at me.

Well, intuition isn't much help in police work. Facts are what we need.

Recognize that there is a time to be left-brained and a time to be right-brained; a time to be efficient and a time to be creative; a time to work and a time to play.

Being a musician, there aren't that many ways for me to consciously use a more strategy, math-based part of my brain.

Monologues are self-verifying and self-referencing, a world in their own right, one with its own internal logic that strengthens with reiteration.

I like horror movies, and in fact I like them even more now after making one. I just think they're much more liberating because you don't really have to apply a very strict logic.

I happen to have been born a Cartesian. The French education is based on a sequence of strict logic. You carry it with you.

The average juror is not Mr. Spock. If he were, then a trial-court judge's job would be much easier. He could instruct the jury in broad strokes - instructing only as to the bare elements of the crime, perhaps - and be confident that the jury would deduce all of the finer-grained implications that must logically follow.

I possess a strong sense of reason.

Right reason is stronger than force.

People who express themselves in paradoxes are in a strong position; and the more outrageous the paradox, in general the stronger the position.

Sometimes a faint voice based on instinct resonates far more strongly than overpowering logic.

When even the most strictly logical mind looks round and investigates the phenomena attending its own existence, perhaps the first fact to attract attention by its strongly marked prominence is the remarkable loneliness of man. He stands alone.

The logic of collective security is flawless, provided it can be made to work under the conditions prevailing on the international scene... The odds, however, are strongly against such a possibility.

I am always fascinated by the structure of things; why do things work this way and not that way.

Robots are good at things that are structured.

Logic and mathematics are nothing but specialised linguistic structures.

People are entitled to their own opinions and what they believe in, but it's very hard when it's something that logically does not make sense; but talking about it is always good.

Before impugning an opponent's motives, even when they legitimately may be impugned, answer his arguments.

Science rests on reason and experiment, and can meet an opponent with calmness; but a belief is always sensitive.

I was a film major because, for some reason, I thought that that was a creative job that had more job opportunities. I don't know what logic I was following, but that was my impression at the time.

To think in terms of what the effect of a story is going to be, as opposed to trying to discover its inner logic, is one of the fundamental dangers in the process.

I don't have a very logical and orderly mind.

Neither Aristotelian nor Russellian rules give the exact logic of any expression of ordinary language; for ordinary language has no exact logic.