Quotes About Logic

By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.

I don't believe in natural science.

The unreasonable efficiency of mathematics in science is a gift we neither understand nor deserve.

All cats die. Socrates is dead. Therefore Socrates is a cat.

Science is practical philosophy.

Induction for deduction, with a view to construction.

Geometry is the science of correct reasoning on incorrect figures.

For me science fiction is a way of thinking, a way of logic that bypasses a lot of nonsense. It allows people to look directly at important subjects.

Every good mathematician should also be a good chess player and vice versa.

Mathematics is the queen of science, and arithmetic the queen of mathematics.

Our intellect does not draw its laws from nature, but it imposes its laws upon nature.

There is an astonishing imagination, even in the science of mathematics. ... We repeat, there was far more imagination in the head of Archimedes than in that of Homer.

Indeed, in view of its function, religion stands in greater need of a rational foundation of its ultimate principles than even the dogmas of science.

Computer Science is a science of abstraction -creating the right model for a problem and devising the appropriate mechanizable techniques to solve it.

No human investigation can be called real science if it cannot be demonstrated mathematically.

Philosophy is empty if it isn't based on science. Science discovers, philosophy interprets.

Mathematics has a threefold purpose. It must provide an instrument for the study of nature. But this is not all: it has a philosophical purpose, and, I daresay, an aesthetic purpose.

Science is methodology. As a belief system it's disastrous.

Mathematics is as little a science as grammar is a language.

I'm supposed to be a scientific person but I use intuition more than logic in making basic decisions.

Science is not a substitute for common sense, but an extension of it.

Mathematics is not a deductive science - that's a cliché... What you do is trial and error, experimentation, guesswork.

Atheism, which people have tried to for hundreds of years as 'the ways of reason and science,' is proving to be mere irrationality and ignorance.

A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, - a mere heart of stone.