Quotes About Logic

It is logical to look for a green fowl in a dark room even if you know the chance of finding a green fowl in a dark room is slim.

See what I mean? You gotta be crazy. Ain't no time to be sane.

Some people believe in imaginary friends. I believe in imaginary numbers.

...I guess I can put two and two together.""Sometimes the answer's four, " I said, "and sometimes it's twenty-two...

We are all hunting for rational reasons for believing in the absurd.

Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.

By logic and reason we die hourly; by imagination we live.

Logic can take you from point A to point B. Imagination can take you wherever you want

Reason is nothing without imagination.

They [formulae 1.10 - 1.12 of Ramanujan] must be true because, if they were not true, no one would have had the imagination to invent them.

Camus says in 'The Stranger' that reason is the enemy of imagination. Sometimes you have to put reason aside and make something beautiful.

Imagination does not breed insanity. Exactly what does breed insanity is reason. Poets do not go mad, but chess players do.

In chess, as played by a good player, logic and imagination must go hand in hand, compensating each other.

I see mysteries and complications wherever I look, and I have never met a steadily logical person.

Anybody can have common sense, provided that they have no imagination.

Experience, the only logic sure to convince a diseased imagination and restore it to rugged health.

You gave too much rein to your imagination. Imagination is a good servant, and a bad master. The simplest explanation is always the most likely.

We balance probabilities and choose the most likely. It is the scientific use of the imagination.

A truly open mind means forcing our imaginations to conform to the evidence of reality, and not vice versa.

One factor that has remained constant through all the twists and turns of the history of physical science is the decisive importance of the mathematical imagination.

It is a certain rule that wit and passion are entirely incompatible. When the affections are moved, there is no place for the imagination.

Next to the intellectual stimulation of chess, the educational value is of great importance. Chess teaches logic, imagination, self-discipline, and determination.

Christmas is best pondered, not with logic, but with imagination.

Common sense is usually lack of imagination, and imagination is usually lack of common sense.