Quotes About Logic

Right reason is stronger than force.

The heart never takes the place of the head: But it can, and should, obey it.

A child knows how to image before he know how to reason. He is born with a naturally vivid and fertile imagination but he has to learn how to use logic and reason.

if it does not appear reasonable to you, it is reasonable for you, to believe in God.

Pythagorean thought was dominated by mathematics, but it was also profoundly mystical.

A mathematician is not a man who can readily manipulate figures; often he cannot. He is not even a man who can readily perform the transformation of equations by the use of calculus. He is primarily an individual who is skilled in the use of symbolic logic on a high plane, and especially he is a man of intuitive judgment in the choice of the manipulative processes he employs.

If scientific reasoning were limited to the logical processes of arithmetic, we should not get very far in our understanding of the physical world. One might as well attempt to grasp the game of poker entirely by the use of the mathematics of probability.

I look wildly for facts and I can only find arguments.

The worst tyrannies were the ones where a government required its own logic on every embedded node.

Humor is something that thrives between man's aspirations and his limitations. There is more logic in humor than in anything else. Because, you see, humor is truth.

There is more logic in humor than in anything else. Because, you see, humor is truth.

Humor is something that thrives between man's aspirations and his limitations. There is more logic in humor than in anything else. Because, you see, humor is truth.

Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education.

Reason is intelligence taking exercise. Imagination is intelligence with an erection.

The transition of nothing-to-something is a natural one, not requiring any agent.

We rarely make mistakes in analysis. We usually make them in our assumptions.

The good thing in chess is that very often the best moves are the most beautiful ones. The beauty of logic.

A elegantly executed proof is a poem in all but the form in which it is written.

Mathemagical mathematics combines the beauty of mathematical structure with the entertainment value of a trick.

To me, reason is as spiritual as anything else, the beauty of reason seems to me indelible and ineffable and numinous... the spirit is after all the same word we use to describe... essence

Abstractness, sometimes hurled as a reproach at mathematics, is its chief glory and its surest title to practical usefulness. It is also the source of such beauty as may spring from mathematics.

The difference between a poet and a philosopher is that the poet sees logically and describes basically the beauty whereas the philosopher defines the basics and shows the beauty of logics.

Only the rational and useful is beautiful.

Mathematics possesses not only truth but supreme beauty - a beauty cold and austere like that of a sculpture.