Quotes About Logic

It would be awesome to be so impressive that we could sway people to our way of thinking just by declaiming our thoughts, but probably most of us lack such gravitas. Luckily, there's something even better: evidence, logic, and argument.

Reason and love are sworn enemies.

Experience seems to most of us to lead to conclusions, but empiricism has sworn never to draw them.

It is a myth, not a mandate, a fable not a logic, and symbol rather than a reason by which men are moved.

I think math is a hugely creative field, because there are some very well-defined operations that you have to work within. You are, in a sense, straightjacketed by the rules of the mathematics. But within that constrained environment, it's up to you what you do with the symbols.

I don't think I'm always right, but I would like to empower people to come to sound conclusions using a systematic way of looking at things.

What is mathematics? It is only a systematic effort of solving puzzles posed by nature.

Baking and coding involve using the same parts of your brain and a lot of the same skills, like being able to follow directions or create directions in a very systematic way.

If you've got good systemising skills you can apply them to systems you aren't familiar with, and look for patterns.

Common sense is just a name for the way we're used to thinking.

This is publishing, Kip! Since when does logic have anything to do with it?

Reason is a necessary instrument, to be used for good or evil, but it has no moral qualities.

it is as difficult to get charity out of piety as to get reasonableness out of rationalism.

The destruction of the foundations necessarily brings down the whole edifice.

When it is not in our power to determine what it true, we ought to follow what is most probable.

I took especially great pleasure in mathematics because of the certainty and the evidence of its arguments.

It is enough that I can understand one thing, clearly and distinctly, without another in order to be certain that one thing is distinct from the other.

One needs to know what thought is, what existence is and what certainty is.

One cannot conceive anything so strange and so implausible that it has not already been said by one philosopher or another.

while I wanted thus to think that everything was false, it necessarily had to be the case that I, who was thinking this, was something. And noticing that this truth—I think, therefore I am—was so firm and so assured that all the most extravagant suppositions of the skeptics were incapable of shaking it, I judged that I could accept it without scruple as the first principle of the philosophy I was seeking.

About Pierre de Fermat] It cannot be denied that he has had many exceptional ideas, and that he is a highly intelligent man. For my part, however, I have always been taught to take a broad overview of things, in order to be able to deduce from them general rules, which might be applicable elsewhere.

c'est une vérité très certaine que, lorsqu'il n'est pas en notre pouvoir de discerner les plus vraies opinions, nous devons suivre les plus probables partie 3, para 3)

Those who possess the strongest reasoning and who best order their thoughts in order to make them clear and intelligible can always best persuade others of what they are proposing, even if they were to speak only Low Breton and had never learned rhetoric.

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