Quotes About Logic

Sherlock Holmes. When you've eliminated the impossible, whatever was left, however improbable, must be the truth. Or something like that.

Lucas kicked back in his chair, and thought, Let's go to Sherlock Holmes. When you've eliminated the impossible, whatever was left, however improbable, must be the truth. Or something like that.

This is what happens when the Narrative takes over. Things quit making sense. The laws of physics take a coffee break. People stop thinking logically and start thinking dramatically.

Human brains are bullshit.

I know three things will never be believed - the true, the probable, and the logical

It is easy to find a logical and virtuous reason for not doing what you don't want to do.

A thing so triumphantly illogical, so beautifully senseless as an army can't allow a question to weaken it.

Three things will never be believed: the true, the probable, and the logical.

Some of them hated the mathematics that drove them, and some were afraid, and some worshipped the mathematics because it provided a refuge from thought and from feeling.

There was an iron simplicty in the seer. He was like a monolith of logic standing against waves of angry nonsense.

No one can be a great thinker who does not recognize that as a thinker it is his first duty to follow his intellect to whatever conclusions it may lead.

I remember one English teacher in the eighth grade, Florence Schrack, whose husband also taught at the high school. I thought what she said made sense, and she parsed sentences on the blackboard and gave me, I'd like to think, some sense of English grammar and that there is a grammar, that those commas serve a purpose and that a sentence has a logic, that you can break it down. I've tried not to forget those lessons, and to treat the English language with respect as a kind of intricate tool.

Mathematics consists of processes independent of the number. You must remove the number from your thinking and instead dwell on the idea and process of the underlying logic. The faster you do this, the quicker math will begin to make sense to you. Then maybe your life, but defiantly your grade, will get better.

To rely solely on logic is in essence to operate within a structure of limited knowledge and understanding

Having faith is like having an extra energy source. It allows you to keep moving forward when all logic tells you, you can't.

God is The Reasonable One, therefore reason & faith are not antithetical" ~R. Alan Woods [2007]

Computers are famous for being able to do complicated things starting from simple programs.

The dream of reason produces monsters

Fantasy abandoned by reason produces impossible monsters

Still more astonishing is that world of rigorous fantasy which we call mathematics.

It's easy to make up weird stuff. It gets trickier when you want the weird stuff to be interesting and make sense.

Anyone who still wants to experience fairytales these days can't afford to dither when it comes to using their brains.

But my problem with fantasy, and horror, and related genres, is that sometimes the problems are illogical.

Fear," the doctor said, "is the relinquishment of logic, the willing relinquishing of reasonable patterns. We yield to it or we fight it, but we cannot meet it halfway.