Quotes About Logic

More rooted in logic was the silence of God. In the world there was evil and much of it resulted from doubt, from an honest confusion among men of good will. Would a reasonable God refuse to end it? Not finally reveal Himself? Not speak? "Lord, give us a sign…" The raising of Lazarus was dim in the distant past. No one now living had heard his laughter. And so why not a sign?

More rooted in logic was the silence of God. In the world there was evil and much of it resulted from doubt, from an honest confusion among men of good will. Would a reasonable God refuse to end it? Not finally reveal Himself? Not speak?

Sometimes "creativity" is just common sense.

The assumption that anything true is knowable is the grandfather of paradoxes.

There's method in his madness.

When valour preys on reason, it eats the sword it fights with.

For these fellows of infinite tongue, that can rime themselves into ladies' favors, they do always reason themselves out again.

Every why hath a wherefore.

Reason, in itself confounded,Saw division grow together.

Though this be madness, yet there is method in 't.

A beast, that wants discourse of reason.

There is a method to madness!

Though this be madness, yet there is method in it.

Specifically, I said words to the effect that "if it isn't about modal logic or Sanskrit, I don't think I want to write about it anymore.

Minus times minus equals plus, The reason for this we need not discuss.

Geometry is one of the handles of science and philosophy.

Language is inherently not concerned with logic. As an expression of the psychological activities of humankind, it simply follows a linear process as it seeks actualisation. Moreover, it does not obey the objective concepts of time and space that belong to the physical world. When the discussion of time and space is imported into linguistic art from scientific aims and research methods, that linguistic art is entirely reduced to trifling pseudo-philosophical issues.

The square root sign is a generous symbol, it gives shelter to all the numbers.

The square root sign is a study one. It shelters all the numbers.

Two is the only even prime.

The smallest perfect number is 6: 6 = 1 + 2 + 3.

There are lots of deficient numbers that are just one larger than the sum of their divisors, but there are no abundant numbers that are just one smaller than the sum of theirs.

he had discovered the natural connection between numbers that seemed completely unrelated.

If that were the case, they wouldn't be so difficult to understand and there'd be no need for mathematicians.