Quotes About Logic

Investigating is a process of elimination. You have to explore all the possibilities, and whatever's left, no matter how implausible, has got to be it.

If God wanted us to act on instinct, we wouldn't have the power of reason.

Logical thinking keeps you from wasting time worrying, or hoping. It prevents disappointment. Imagination, on the other hand, only gets you hyped up over things that will never realistically happen.

Ninety percent of our life is created for Emotional Belief Systems, not logical reasoning. This explains why past trauma, pain and fear creates powerful less than belief systems that have wedged like crossbows.

We are to admit no more causes of natural things than such as are both true and sufficient to explain their appearances.

Science is nothing, but trained and organized common sense.

Science is the refusal to believe on the basis of hope.

Science is a method to keep yourself from kidding yourself

Science keeps down the weed of superstition not by logic, but by rendering the mental soil unfit for its cultivation

The difference between science and the fuzzy subjects is that science requires reasoning while those other subjects merely require scholarship.

Science is a differential equation. Religion is a boundary condition.

Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.

Mathematics is the queen of sciences and arithmetic is the queen of mathematics

Follow your heart but think with your head.

If it comes down between what your heart is telling you and what your brain is telling you. Listen to your heart, because that's what you want more.

1 + 1 = 3 if you don't use condom...

Follow your heart, but take your brain with you.

like to do it because I believe hospitality is about love, not logic.

The more logical conclusion was that the General had bolstered the Vietnamese tendency for conspiracy with the American trait of paranoia, admittedly with my help.

The only rule of science is that it has no rule.

Men follow their sentiments and their self-interest, but it pleases them to imagine that they follow reason. And so they look for, and always find, some theory which, a posteriori , makes their actions appear to be logical.

People reasoning on essences may sometimes substitute certitude for probability, even very great probability. But we know nothing about essences and accordingly lose our certitude.

Creation was by divine fiat. Since "Reason" (Word, Wisdom, Logic) is eternal and preceded creation, the laws of logic were not created. They are true not only for human beings, and they operate not only by cultural convention. Instead, they are necessary laws of thought that had eternally existed in the mind of God – logic is the way God thinks.

To discern good and evil, we must, as the Scripture says, be trained in the word of God. In order to wage spiritual warfare against the deception of Satan, we must know the truth, and know it with accuracy, precision, comprehensiveness, and be able to communicate and defend it. The study of logic helps us clarify and organize our thoughts. It helps us to understand the arguments others present to us, whether they are good or evil, right or wrong.