Quotes About Logic

Learning to write programs stretches your mind, and helps you think better, creates a way of thinking about things that I think is helpful in all domains.

A linguist would be shocked to learn that if a set is not closed this does not mean that it is open, or again that "E is dense in E" does not mean the same thing as "E is dense in itself".

A good programming language is a conceptual universe for thinking about programming.

The tools we use have a profound and devious influence on our thinking habits, and therefore on our thinking abilities.

Reasoning is the pastime of my whole household, and all this reasoning has driven out Reason.

No, no, you're not thinking; you're just being logical.

The life of the law has not been logic; it has been experience.

The trouble with logic is that its relationship with reality is usually obscure.

Though faith is not illogical, it trusts God even when it cannot fully make sense of all the data at hand.

Only irrational fools would consistently and practically deny that 2 + 2 = 4. Not only is the answer to this equation a part of common sense, it is easily demonstrable and highly useful.

If the Bible provides us with the only cohesive system of thought that allows us to properly interpret all of reality, why is it so hated and rejected by so many? If the truth claims of the Bible are logically demonstrable, why is it so despised and ridiculed by some of the brightest and smartest minds?

An intelligent person can rationalize anything, a wise person doesn't try.

The logic of episiotomy was that a second-degree tear would prevent a third- or fourth-degree tear, but studies conducted through the 1980s and 1990s found the opposite to be true. One study found that episiotomy makes such an injury nine times more likely.

That's factually crazy...

She could feel the logic of mechanical parts in her fingertips; this came so naturally that she could only think that other people didn't really try.

Time is irrelevant to math.

The answer to your first riddle," I told him. "If yes is no and once is never, then the number of sides a triangle has… is… two." I drew out my reply, not bothering to explain how I'd arrived at my answer

Darn you and your infernal logic." Asher ran both hands through his hair, mussing it to ridiculous heights. "Fine," he capitulated. "But I want in. Whatever you're planning to do about this, whatever Vivvie's doing, I want in.

if yes is no, and once is never then how many sides does a triangle have?

If yes is no and once is never then how many sides does a triangle have? - Jameson Hawthorne

Identify the assumptions implicit in your own logic," Grayson said, clearly citing a dictate he'd been taught. "Then negate them.

he answer to your first riddle," I told him. "If yes is no and once is never, then the number of sides a triangle has… is… two." I drew out my reply, not bothering to explain how I'd arrived at my answer

Here one does not use logic to conquer chaos. Rather, one uses logic because the logic itself is beauty, is truth. Plato offers the amazing idea that contemplation of the way things really are is, in itself, a purifying process that can bring human beings into the only divinity there is.

Provable truths are what we need.