Quotes About Logic

Science is the knowledge of consequences, and dependence of one fact upon another.

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.

Philosophy is the science which considers truth

An important aspect of being a scientist isn't just knowing the math, but also knowing of imagination.

You say: I am not free. But I have raised and lowered my arm. Everyone understands that this illogical answer is an irrefutable proof of freedom.

Talking with an atheist is like trying to reason with someone who denies the existence of the sun.

I think, therefore I am. I'm pink, therefore I'm spam.

Mathematics consists in proving the most obvious thing in the least obvious way.

Mathematics is a game played according to certain simple rules with meaningless marks on paper.

Mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true.

If your head tells you one thing and your heart tells you another ,before you do anything,you should first decide wether you have a better head or a better heart.

What I learned is that in business you must make decisions based on facts, not react with your heart.

Shop often, shop hard, and spend for the best stuff available - logic dictates that you can make delicious food only with delicious ingredients.

At the time I thought the winner in an argument was the person who put forward the most logical support for his position. Of course, this isn't true. Human history, from gardening disputes to genocide, is full of examples of people with the most decent, well-argued stance ending up with their face in the mud in front of a naked display of power.

When imagination is sacrificed on the altar of logic, God is robbed of the glory that rightfully belongs to Him. In fact, the death of a dream is often a subtle form of idolatry. We lose faith in the God who gave us the big dream and settle for a small dream that we can accomplish without His help. We go after dreams that don't require divine intervention

Neuroimaging has shown that as we age, our cognitive center of gravity shifts from the imaginative right brain to the logical left brain.

At some point, most of us stop living out of imagination and start living out of memory. Instead of creating the future, we start repeating the past. Instead of living by faith, we live by logic. Instead of going after our dreams, we stop circling Jericho. But it doesn't have to be that way.

La fecha de nuestra muerte no es la fecha que escriben en la lápida de nuestro sepulcro. El día en que dejemos de soñar, es el día en que comenzaremos a morir. Cuando sacrificamos la imaginación en el altar de la lógica, le robamos a Dios la gloria que le pertenece a él con todo derecho.

When understood in all its rich complexity, religion does not simply provide secure foundations but destabilizes every type of religiosity by subverting the oppositional logic of eitherjor.

We must question the story logic of having an all-knowing, all-powerful God, who creates faulty humans and then blames them for his own mistakes."--Gene Rodenberry

Charles Darwin himself recognized this problem and feared it when he wrote hauntingly: "Within me the horrid doubt always arises whether the convictions of a man's mind, which has been developed from the mind of lower animals, are of any value or at all trustworthy."40 The problem being, of course, that Darwin's theory itself was the conviction of man's mind, and thus by his own logic, he couldn't trust it.

Our minds are wired by nature to detect patterns.

Emotion had no place in the virtual world, where logical, ruthless intellect prevailed.