Quotes About Logic

I wondered why ordinary words seemed so exotic when they were used in relation to numbers. Amicable numbers or twin primes had a precise quality about them, and yet they sounded as though they'd been taken straight out of a poem.

Deizmin kutsal? ak?l, bilim ve ahlakt?r.

By the cold Darwinian logic of natural selection, evolution codifies happenstance into strategy.

We live in a Newtonian world of Einsteinian physics ruled by Frankenstein logic.

Occam's Razor: The simplest theory is usually the correct one." He

It is not a look of horror, consternation, or even distress. More often than not, the last visage of a murdered man resembles that of a flustered schoolchild to whom the logic of a simple equation has just been revealed.

There's a simple reason why people don't get involved with reason, logic and mathematics. They find these extremely difficult. There's a simple reason why people get involved with faith, prayer, mysticism, meditation and mindfulness: they're easy! Anyone can do them.

Some people believe that explanations which do not involve matter are supernatural. In fact, material explanations are themselves supernatural. How can lifeless matter produce life? There's nothing natural about that. How can mindless matter produce mind? What's natural about that? How can temporal and contingent matter come into existence in the first place? You can't get existence from non-existence. That's logic 101.

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You know what the scariest part is about people like him? Everything he's doing makes perfect sense in his own mind.

The president has listened to some people, the so-called Vulcans in the White House, the ideologues. But you know, unlike the Vulcans of Star Trek who made the decisions based on logic and fact, these guys make it on ideology. These aren't Vulcans. There are Klingons in the White House. But unlike the real Klingons of Star Trek, these Klingons have never fought a battle of their own. Don't let faux Klingons send real Americans to war.

You may think of God as the timeless, eternal universe of mathematics.

Without Intelligent Design there could be no stupidity

Neil Degrasse Tyson says that the universe is under no obligation to make sense to you. Surely it's scientists who are under no obligation to make sense.

I have faith that men can be as reasonable and logical as women if they but try.

have faith that men can be as reasonable and logical as women if they but try.

roses. Do not tell me you couldn't travel with as little. I have faith that men can be as reasonable and logical as women if they but try.

I am a scientist," I told him ruthlessly. "I do not require perfect knowledge in order to form a working hypothesis, only possibilities.

Common sense is very uncommon. It is also shaped by your education.

Just because you deny facts and science doesn't mean they aren't true

Every true scientist is a philosopher, but not every philosopher is a scientist.

It is better to be a pragmatist than a lunatic.

As a rationalist, pragmatist, and a scientist I rarely involve myself in the cosmological arguments of the creation of the universe.

To be logical is very illogical.