Quotes About Logic

I've always enjoyed mathematics. It is the most precise and concise way of expressing any idea.

It defies logic that protections against predatory debt collection practices don't apply to debt collectors hired by the federal government.

If the facts are contrary to any predictions, then the hypothesis is wrong no matter how appealing.

Don't leave inferences to be drawn when evidence can be presented.

I think anything goes in fiction as long as it fits within the interior logic of the work itself and is presented in a disciplined manner.

The spirit of logical analysis should in practice blend with the practical pressure for the adoption of some form of international language, but it should not allow itself to be stampeded by it.

He who dares not reason, is a slave.

As a scientist, you're not supposed to make decisions without the data.

You have to connect on emotion not logic. People go on dates and it becomes a CV exercise. Logic is someone asking 'what do you do for a job?' when you should ask 'why do you do that? What is it you enjoy?'

I was on the debate team.

I believe in reasoned debate.

I was the straight-A student but sort of a little bit of debating my parents all the time, trying to find when they weren't logically correct.

If it doen't make sense, you should find for the defense.

1 + 1 = 2. Everything else is derived.

There are two kinds of films: the ones that are devoid of logic but can still hijack the audience, and those that can win them over with logic. Both kinds can succeed, and I like to work in both.

I would rather know about different cultures, read about them, and understand them than just blindly follow their rituals. All cultures in India have their own logic.

Rush Limbaugh's pathetic abuse of logic, his absurd pomposity, his relentless self-promotion, his ridiculous ego - now those, friends, are appropriate targets for satire.

Between good sense and good taste there lies the difference between a cause and its effect.

Arthur Laffer's idea, that lowering taxes could increase revenues, was logically correct. If tax rates are high enough, then people will go to such lengths to avoid them that cutting taxes can increase revenues. What he was wrong about was in thinking that income tax rates were already so high in the 1970s that cutting them would raise revenues.

Chess first of all teaches you to be objective.

Logic teaches rules for presentation, not thinking.

The problem is that many times people suspend their common sense because they get drowned in business models and Harvard business school teachings.

You're not dealing with people," Jerry told him. "These are programmers, boy. Programmers!

The dangerous part about excuses is that a lot of them make sense.