Quotes About Logic

I prioritise story over science, but not at the expense of being really stupid about it.

You can't argue with stupidity.

Kant's style is so heavy that after his pure reason, the reader longs for unreasonableness.

Dramatic experience is not logical; it may be subdued to the kind of coherence that we indicate when we speak, in criticism, of form.

When I was in school, I liked math because all the problems had answers. Everything else seemed very subjective.

My favourite subjects at school were algebra and logic: making a big problem into something small.

Math is one of my favorite subjects.

As an engineer, I learned that a long time ago: you don't want to get into a rational discussion about irrational subjects.

The rules of evidence in the main are based on experience, logic, and common sense, less hampered by history than some parts of the substantive law.

My wife is a Christian and is extraordinary patient, logical, and philosophical. For years, I would challenge and condemn her beliefs, battering the structure of her conclusions with every argument, analogy, and evidence I could bring to bear. I am a very argumentative man, and I am as fell and subtle as a serpent in debate.

It is even possible that laws which have not their origin in the mind may be irrational, and we can never succeed in formulating them.

There is a sense of rationality and order to human error.

In Socrates' time, an orator was accustomed to ask his audience which genre or mode of expression was preferred: myth i.e., narrative-- or logical argumentation? In the age of the book, this decision cannot be left to the audience: the choice must be made in order for the book to exist and one merely imagines (or hopes for) an audience that will have given one answer rather than the other; one also tries to listen to the answer suggested or imposed by the subject itself.

In a different direction, the necessity to model the analysis of noisy incomplete sensory data not by logic but by Bayesian inference first came to the forefront in the robotics community with their use of Kalman filters.

Immanuel Kant: "Human reason is by nature architectonic

Piaget termed this action logic sensorimotor intelligence, and the three volumes on infancy "form one entity dedicated to the beginnings of intelligence, that is to say, to the various manifestations of sensorimotor intelligence and to the most elementary forms of expression" (OI, p. ix).

From lies to forgeries the step is not so long, and I have written technical essays on the logic of forgeries and on the influence of forgeries on history.

Lower your voice and strengthen your argument

If you must argue, the best way to win is to start by being right.

A fool in love makes no sense to me. I only think you are a fool If you do not love.

Use soft words and hard arguments.

After years of marriage, I have learned one thing: Trust a woman's intuition before a man's undeniable logic.

All general statements are false.

Faith is believeing in something That sometimes doesn't always seem logical.