Quotes About Logic

This was not even a matter of putting two and two together; it was looking at four.

All right, then: Taking the ipso facto as prima facie, it stood to reason that if I was not a pedophile, I was also not a murderer. Quad erat demonstrandum.

I went over it all in my head, again and again, and it all added up the same way, and the only thing that really stuck out was the thought that it was all very simple, perfectly connected, coherent and logical and right, and I had no choice but to act as quickly as I could, and why should that be bothersome?

women are often blessed with more common sense than men.

Reading a novel after reading semiotic theory was like jogging empty-handed after jogging with hand weights...How wonderful it was when one sentence followed logically from the sentence before!...There were going to be people in it. Something was going to happen to them in a place resembling the world.

The striatum, and especially the caudate, can thus be thought of as a neuronal mosaic of reason and passion.

F]ree will seems to violate all we know of how the world works, but as long as we cannot construct a logical proof of its nonexistence we cling to it tenaciously, even desperately.

In the battle between logic and crazy, crazy always wins.

When you have excluded the impossible, what remains, however improbable, must be the truth

We know our lives are chaotic, but we insist that everything happen in an orderly way and be logically conceived.

She was her own kind of dreamer, a blind mathematician skating along the thin surface of life, believing in the saving power of logic, reason, and information, overlooking the whole murky expanse of feeling and animal instinct that was the real driver of human behavior, the real author of history.

She was her own kind of dreamer, a blind mathematician skating along the thin surface of life, believing in the saving power of logic, reason, and information, overlooking the whole murky expanse of feeling and animal instinct that was the real driver of human behavior, the real author of history. Since

Even though I now speak the language fairly well, the spoken language doesn't help me. A conversation involves a sort of collaboration and, often, an act of forgiveness. When I speak I can make mistakes, but I'm somehow able to make myself understood. On the page I am alone. The spoken language is a kind of antechamber with respect to the written, which has a stricter, more elusive logic.

A new language is almost a new life, grammar and syntax recast you, you slip into another logic and another sensibility.

If we look at our attitudes consistently and work out the logical implications we're on the road to moral progress, moral understanding.

When I told my son that I had to give a talk about my work to non-mathematicians, he warned me that regular people don't think like mathematicians.

I can put two and two together, you know. Do not think you are dealing with a man who has lost his grapes.

If you can engage the influencer's passions, and work with them to craft a compelling logical appeal, then you can leverage the credibility of the influencer to actually sway hearts and minds.

When I'm stuck for a closing to a lyric, I will drag out my last resort: overwhelming illogic.

Students shy away from Maths, but in reality Maths is the best friend of man.

Students need to learn how to think critically, how to argue opposing ideas. It is important for them to learn how to think. You can always cook.

I've always been interested in the politics of war. War is one of those things that, the longer I studied it, the more illogical it seemed.

Mathematicians do not study objects, but relations between objects.

You should carefully study the Art of Reasoning, as it is what most people are very deficient in, and I know few things more disagreeable than to argue, or even converse with a man who has no idea of inductive and deductive philosophy.