Quotes About Logic

Only facts will help you escape -- not hopes, fears or wishes.

Science rests on reason and experiment, and can meet an opponent with calmness; but a belief is always sensitive.

History cannot be logically constructed any more than a scientific event, if only because it involves the process of vague and indefinable concepts which are about to crystallize. The more detailed and differentiated the description for any field of thought, the more complex, interrelated, and mutually dependent in definition will be its concepts. They become a tangle impossible to unravel logically, an organic structure produced by mutual development and with interacting components.

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Logic is one thing, the human animal another. You can quite easily propose a logical solution to something and at the same time hope in your heart of hearts it won't work out.

Science, unlike theology, never leads to insanity.

Reason is the greatest enemy that faith has: it never comes to the aid of spiritual things.

The logical outcome of the Pro-Slavery party was the Southern Confederacy; the logical outcome of the Anti-Slavery party was the Republican party; the logical outcome of the conflict between the two was the Civil War.

Intuition without reason is the fertile mother of blunders and wrongs.

the ontological argument for the existence of God.

It was only a small step in logic to conclude that in our act of participation as an observer in the quantum world, we might also be an influencer, a creator.8 Did we not only stop the butterfly at a certain point in its flight, but also influence the path it will take – nudging it in a particular direction? A related quantum effect suggested by

Proper punctuation is both the sign and the cause of clear thinking.

Waters said, "Meeting a preserving Negro did for me what logic could not do." It was the first time Waters looked at his culture critically and light of the gospel. He observed: "I am a Southerner. I have been prejudiced. I had to get rid of my prejudice to get to be a little more Catholic.

Science is the most reliable guide in life.

emotions don't dictate choices.

Her only love was reason. And that has never been the same as wisdom.

with Occam's old razor she could slit the throat of that idea.

If the deep logic of what determines the value of the fine-structure constant also played a significant role in our understanding of all the physical processes in which the fine-structure constant enters, then we would be stymied. Fortunately, we do not need to know everything before we can know something.

The mistake, Wittgenstein argued, is in thinking philosophy can answer these questions. It comes partly from a flawed view of language that insists that if a word has meaning, there must be a thing attached to that meaning. The philosopher asks, 'What is reality?', 'What is justice?' or 'What is the mind?' and then goes looking with logic for the identity of that thing – and of course can't find it, because they are just words.

If a person is intelligent, then of course he is either an agnostic or an atheist. Just as he is a physical coward. They are automatic definitions of high intelligence.

As commonly practiced, philosophy is the attempt to find good reasons for conventional beliefs.

As Knox had proclaimed, Elizabeth ruled from the head and Mary from the heart

If I say: "I know that either it is raining or it is not raining," this is a tautology. It is the opposite of a contradiction, in that it is true whatever the circumstances, but it says nothing as it applies to nothing in particular.

Facts are in logical space and independent of one another and can only be stated or asserted.