Quotes About Logic

Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous.

But 'the physical level of rigor' is higher on certainty than the logical one, since reproducible experiments are more reliable than anybody's, be it Hilbert's, Einstein's or Gödel's intuition.

There is no result in nature without a cause; understand the cause and you will have no need of the experiment.

Pure logic could never lead us to anything but tautologies; it can create nothing new; not from it alone can any science issue.

That which is provable, ought not to be believed in science without proof.

Truth has nothing to do with the conclusion, and everything to do with the methodology.

There wanted not some beams of light to guide men in the exercise of their Stocastick faculty.

There are no creeds in mathematics.

Music is a science, in many ways it's mathematical.

There is no branch of mathematics, however abstract, which may not some day be applied to phenomena of the real world.

All possible knowledge, then, depends on the validity of reasoning...Unless human reasoning is valid no science can be true.

Science is the true theology.

Geometry is the most complete science.

One of the nice things about math and science is it's obvious, you get the answer or you don't get the answer.

I don't believe in mathematics.

The errors which arise from the absence of facts are far more numerous and more durable than those which result from unsound reasoning respecting true data.

Making money is a common sense. It's not rocket science. But unfortunately, when it comes to money, common sense is uncommon.

Entities should not be posited unnecessarily.

Some of you may have met mathematicians and wondered how they got that way.

All science requires mathematics.

Mathematics in general is fundamentally the science of self-evident things.

There's a good part of Computer Science that's like magic. Unfortunately there's a bad part of Computer Science that's like religion.

Just as houses are made of stones, so is science made of facts.

But in my opinion, all things in nature occur mathematically.