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Quotes About Logic

Without analysis, no synthesis.
~ Friedrich Engels
Mathematics is the cheapest science. Unlike physics or chemistry, it does not require any expensive equipment. All one needs for mathematics is a pencil and paper.
~ George Polya
The true Logic for this world is the Calculus of Probabilities, which takes account of the magnitude of the probability.
~ James Clerk Maxwell
Without mathematics, there's nothing you can do. Everything around you is mathematics. Everything around you is numbers.
~ Shakuntala Devi
The meaning of world is the separation of wish and fact.
~ Kurt Gödel
Detection is, or ought to be, an exact science, and should be treated in the same cold and unemotional manner.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
Science is different to all other systems of thought because you dont need faith in it, you can check that it works.
~ Brian Cox
Mathematics is the key and door to the sciences.
~ Galileo Galilei
But if science may be said to be blind without philosophy, it is true also that philosophy is virtually empty without science.
~ A.J. Ayer
It would be better for the true physics if there were no mathematicians on earth.
~ Daniel Bernoulli
Logic is the last scientific ingredient of Philosophy; its extraction leaves behind only a confusion of non-scientific, pseudo problems.
~ Rudolf Carnap
The cure for a fallacious argument is a better argument, not the suppression of ideas.
~ Carl Sagan
Science is the most reliable guide in life.
~ Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
Pure logical thinking cannot yield us any knowledge of the empirical world. All knowledge of reality starts from experience and ends in it.
~ Albert Einstein
Mathematics is less related to accounting than it is to philosophy.
~ Leonard Adleman
We endeavour to employ only symmetrical figures, such as should not only be an aid to reasoning, through the sense of sight, but should also be to some extent elegant in themselves.
~ John Venn
Scientific reasoning is a dialogue between the possible and the actual, between proposal and disposal between what might be true, and what is in fact the case.
~ Peter Medawar
Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
~ Edsger Dijkstra
You cannot reason people out of a position that they did not reason themselves into.
~ Ben Goldacre, Bad Science
One of the endlessly alluring aspects of mathematics is that its thorniest paradoxes have a way of blooming into beautiful theories.
~ Philip J. Davis
When a man finds a conclusion agreeable, he accepts it without argument, but when he finds it disagreeable, he will bring against it all the forces of logic and reason.
~ Thucydides
C'este donc par l'étude des mathématiques, et seulement par elle, que l'on peut se faire une idée juste et approfondie de ce que c'est qu'une science.
~ Auguste Comte
Science is simply common sense at its best.
~ Thomas Huxley
The new art must be based upon science - in particular, upon mathematics, as the most exact, logical, and graphically constructive of the sciences.
~ Albrecht Durer