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Quotes About Logic

The most practical solution is a good theory.
~ Albert Einstein
Mathematics is the summit of human thinking. It has all the creativity and imagination that you can find in all kinds of art, but unlike art-charlatans and all kinds of quacks will not succeed there.
~ Meir Shalev
The enemy of knowledge and science is irrationalism, not religion
~ Stephen Jay Gould
Science, as opposed to technology, does violence to common sense.
~ Richard Dawkins
The only hope [of science] ... is in genuine induction.
~ Francis Bacon
Science preceded the theory of science, and is independent of it. Science preceded naturalism, and will survive it.
~ Arthur Balfour
Trees sprout up just about everywhere in computer science.
~ Donald Knuth
Only Numbers. Pure math. You have to accustom yourself to thinking that way.
~ Anthony Doerr
I'm basically a computer science nerd.
~ Rebecca Moore
Frege has the merit of ... finding a third assertion by recognising the world of logic which is neither mental nor physical.
~ Bertrand Russell
A contemporary poet has characterized this sense of the personality of art and of the impersonality of science in these words,-'Art is myself; science is ourselves. '
~ Claude Bernard
The Method of Bisection is a sophisticated version of a tool used in fifth grade called "Guess and Check".
~ Richard A. Falk
All science is intelligent inference; excessive literalism is delusion, not a humble bowing to evidence.
~ Stephen Jay Gould
Computer science has as much to do with computers as astronomy has to do with telescopes.
~ Edsger Dijkstra
The logical and extralogical exercises you do in meditation are very similar to advanced systems analysis and programming.
~ Frederick Lenz
Programming will aid a person in developing their mind and will aid their meditation. I find that people who have pursued programming are doing much better in their meditation.
~ Frederick Lenz
In a mathematical proposition, for example, the objectivity is given, but therefore its truth is also an indifferent truth.
~ Soren Kierkegaard
Mathematics is much less formally complete and precise than computer programs.
~ William Thurston
Belief is no substitute for arithmetic.
~ Henry Spencer
I think science is real.
~ Hillary Clinton
It is the chief characteristic of the religion of science that it works.
~ Isaac Asimov
All of science is nothing more than the refinement of everyday thinking.
~ Albert Einstein
A man of logic is a man of sin.
~ Mike Norton
You can believe what you want religiously. Religion is one thing, but science, provable science, is something else.
~ Bill Nye