Quotes About Logic

One cannot understand... the universality of laws of nature, the relationship of things, without an understanding of mathematics. There is no other way to do it.

Every relationship can feel saturated by market logic or at best purchased at the price of the immiseration of others.

You cannot expect any rational thought from a religious man. He is like a rocking log in water.

One can be sophisticated and believe in God. Reason and intellect are not to be laid aside where matters of religion are concerned.

Stripping away the irrational, the illogical, and the impossible, I am left with atheism. I can live with that.

Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep thoughts can be winnowed from deep nonsense.

If you study carefully, you will see that Buddhism is based on reason. There is an element of flexibility inherent in it, which is not found in any other religion.

No amount of belief makes something a fact.

Religion is love; in no case is it logic.

One can't logically argue that because something highly improbable happens, some occult force had to make it happen that way.

There is no difference between religion and politics. Both involve lies and fanatical beliefs that generaly defy logic... Just like rock climbing.

There is no scientific proof that only scientific proofs are good proofs; no way to prove by the scientific method that the scientific method is the only valid method.

We who are atheists are also a-fairyists, a-teapotists, and a-unicornists, but we don't have to bother saying so.

Man, once surrendering his reason, has no remaining guard against absurdities the most monstrous. . . .

In philosophy, or religion, or ethics, or politics, two and two might make five, but when one was designing a gun or an aeroplane they had to make four.

Prejudice, not being founded on reason, cannot be removed by argument.

The soul cannot be humbled by fasts and prayer; it must be broken by mortal sin to experience forgiveness of sin and rise to a state of grace. Otherwise, religion is nothing but dead logic.

Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense.

The division between faith and reason is a half-measure, till it is frankly admitted that faith has to do with fiction, and reason with fact.

Reason bases its decisions on evidence available to everyone, and allows people to disagree when evidence is lacking. Religion will never do that.

Although atheism might have been logically tenable before Darwin, Darwin made it possible to be an intellectually fulfilled atheist.

Science, like art, religion, commerce, warfare, and even sleep, is based on presuppositions.

I do engineering, not religion.

Against logic there is no armor like ignorance.