Quotes About Logic

Reason is the power or capacity whereby we see or detect logical relationships among propositions.

There are too many of numbers for them to arise as a result of human intellectual activity. Consider, for example, the following series of functions: 2 lambda n is two to the second to the second .... to the second n times. The second member is ##2 (n); the third 3#2(n), etc.

Baseball is like live math.

Emotion kicked logic's ass. He was going after Quinn.

Religion seems to have a way of making people abandon logic.

I am above the weakness of seeking to establish a sequence of cause and effect, between the disaster and the atrocity.

There's no way you can possibly intellectually justify, 'Well, it's okay for the Western Judeo-Christian countries to have nuclear weapons, but not for a country like Iran.' That logic goes nowhere fast.

Grow your tree of falsehood from a small grain of truth. Do not follow those who lie in contempt of reality. Let your lie be even more logical than the truth itself, so the weary travelers may find repose.

It is illogical to play Wednesday, Saturday, and Tuesday.

You must build public policies on reason, on facts.

Common sense says that if something possessed the ability to create itself from nothing, then that something wasn't nothing, it was something - a very intelligent creative power of some sort.

We would be in a nasty position indeed if empirical science were the only kind of science possible.

How is an error possible in mathematics?

I think a lot of the logic of Google+ is much better in terms of notification of messages to you, in terms of how you post. One very obvious feature is that with Google+, after you post something, you can edit it forever. That is true of both posts and comments. I edit almost every post I make and almost every comment I make.

I happen to be extremely left-brained; my instinct is to draw a chart rather than a picture. I'm trying to get my right-brain muscles into shape. I actually think this shift toward right-brain abilities has the potential to make us both better off and better in a deeper sense.

The power of the people and the power of reason are one.

I believe in the Constitution - and I believe in common sense.

Well, I believe in the idea of 'normal' in the way that I believe in the idea of logic. Or the idea of character. All of these ethical constructs are just that: constructs.

My biggest critical success was 'The Draughtsman's Contract,' but then it wasn't the English who particularly thought so; it was the French, who are much more interested in Cartesian logic: in finding your way through more cerebral puzzle-making, if you wish.

If you follow reason far enough it always leads to conclusions that are contrary to reason.

To hold an idea and convince ourselves we arrived at it rationally, we go in search of evidence to support our view.

Craftsmanship and logic is key to any movie-making.

The more you reason the less you create.

It is embarrassingly unscientific to speak of anything creating itself from nothing.