Quotes About Logic

When the difficulty of a problem lies only in finding out what follows from certain fixed premises, mathematical methods furnish invaluable wings for flying over intermediate obstructions.

Geometry is one of the handles of science and philosophy.

By abstaining from all definite content, whether as formal logic and theory of science or as the legend of Being beyond all beings, philosophy declared its bankruptcy regarding concrete social goals.

... mathematics is the science of skillful operations with concepts and rules invented just for this purpose.

What we cannot express by the art of thinking, by the art of science or philosophy or logic, we can and should express by the poetic, visual, or some other arts.

When I write my books, actually I'm known for very logical rule-based magic systems. I write with one foot in fantasy and one foot in science fiction.

There is an astonishing imagination, even in the science of mathematics.

Common sense invents and constructs no less than its own field than science does in its domain. It is, however, in the nature of common sense not to be aware of this situation.

There are three creative ideas which, each in its turn, have been central to science. They are the idea of order, the idea of causes, and the idea of chance.

It is a law, that every event depends on some law.

Science can never grapple with the irrational. That is why it has no future before it, in this world.

Here is something Category-Theorists like: it is trivial, but not trivially trivial.

Fear is religion, courage is science.

It is certainly true that principles cannot be more securely founded than on experience and consciously clear thinking.

Reduction is at the heart of progress in science.

Science [is] knowledge of the truth of Propositions and how things are called.

The initial stage, the act of conceiving or inventing a theory, seems to me neither to call for logical analysis nor to be susceptible of it.

Practically, Science is true; and Faith is foolish.

It's like a mathematical law, Grace.

With a metric you can really go to town, otherwise it is just abstract nonsense.

Science is a collection of successful recipes.

Without computers we will be stuck only proving theorems that have short proofs.

The computer was, to the best of my feelings about the subject, not thinking like a mathematician, and it was much more successful, because it was thinking not like a mathematician.

Philosophically, mathematics is not a part of science. Mathematics studies patterns, science studies nature