Quotes About Logic

It is only the inferior thinker who hastens to explain the singular and the complex by the primitive shortcut of supernaturalism.

Man is a reasoning animal.

Doctrines which can stand the trial of logic and reason can do without persecuting skeptics.

It is illogical to say, as many etatists do, that liberalism is hostile to or hates the state, because it is opposed to the transfer of the ownership of railroads or cotton mills to the state. If a man says that sulphuric acid does not make a good hand lotion, he is not expressing hostility to sulphuric acid as such; he is simply giving his opinion concerning the limitations of its use.

The aim was to regulate the value of money by increasing or diminishing the quantity of it. The effects of these measures appeared to provide an inductive proof of the correctness of this superficial version of the Quantity Theory, and incidentally concealed the weaknesses of its logic.

arguments from authority are invalid; the proof of a theory is in its reasoning, not in its sponsorship;

The logic of the world is prior to all truth and falsehood.

The problems are solved, not by giving new information, but by arranging what we have known since long.

I am sitting with a philosopher in the garden; he says again and again 'I know that that's a tree', pointing to a tree that is near us. Someone else arrives and hears this, and I tell him: 'This fellow isn't insane. We are only doing philosophy.

Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.

Science is less messy than emotion

Actually, she liked math. She loved knowing that if she worked hard enough, at the end there was going to be an answer that made sense.

I can defeat you physically with or without a reason. But I can only defeat your mind with a reason. —JIM LAU

Wonderful, how an injection of pure speculation—never mind the questionable logic—icy-cold and colourless as a shot of opium, can deaden briefly even the worst of afflictions. Briefly.

You'll notice something interesting about the way scientists think: they don't start with data. They start with a hypothesis. Then they go to the data.

A very young child cannot understand that his dad is a sick alcoholic. Children are limited in logical ability. Their earliest way of thinking is through feelings (felt thought). Children are also egocentric. This doesn't mean they are selfish in the usual meaning of that word. They are not morally selfish. Egocentric thinking means that a child will take everything personally. Even if a parent dies, a child can personalize it.

Our schools display an enormous bias in educating the mind rather than the whole person. We place major emphasis on reasoning, logic and math, with almost no concern for emotions, intuition and creativity. Our students become memorizing mimics and dull conformists, rather than exciting and feeling creators.

Absolute virtue is impossible and the republic of forgiveness leads, with implacable logic, to the republic of the guillotine.

As Socrates so philosophically put it, since we don't know what death is, it is illogical to fear it.

The purpose of abstraction is not to be vague, but to create a new semantic level in which one can be absolutely precise.

Computers are stupid.

Just just because there are flaws in aircraft design that doesn't mean flying carpets exist.

Everything that I do has a certain mechanical logic to it, and follows my definition of design--which is function with cultural content.

Design must be proved before a designer can be inferred.