Quotes About Logic

When superstitions enter the world of imagination, then intelligence and science become fiction.

To fall for the notion of a 'double truth' and argue there was one set of truths for reason and another for faith and never the two shall meet made nonsense of the idea of truth itself.

Mathematics began to seem too much like puzzle solving. Physics is puzzle solving, too, but of puzzles created by nature, not by the mind of man.

Any ceremony performed in the absence of reasonable knowledge as to cause and effect is magic.

All the speed he took, all the turns he'd taken and the corners he'd cut in Night City, and still he'd see the matrix in his sleep, bright lattices of logic unfolding across that colorless void...

Apparently loved did weird things to a girl's practical decision-making skills - Matilda

You can use logic to justify just about anything, that's its power and its flaw.

That was a double negative, Jemail. By saying that you haven't seen nobody, you're actually saying that you have seen somebody.

The language of experiment is more authoritative than any reasoning: facts can destroy our ratiocination—not vice versa.

There is a scientific explanation behind everything. Finding it depends on whether you give in to the much simpler supernatural explanation.

Art works to satisfy the instinct and the science works to satisfy the reason.

If all the arts aspire to the condition of music all the sciences aspire to the condition of mathematics.

Reason observation and experience - the Holy Trinity of Science.

Computers can figure out all kinds of problems except the things in the world that just don't add up.

It is only logical that the pauperization of our soul and the soul of society coincide with the pauperization of the environment. One is the cause and the reflection of the other.

It does not matter how many people chose moral duty over the rationality of self-preservation, what does matter is that some did. Evil is not all-powerful. It can be resisted. The testimony of the few who did resist shatters the authority of the logic of self-preservation. It shows it for what it is in the end: a choice.

Never and nowhere was there a shortage of people eager to find a logic to their unhappiness, humiliating defeats and life frustrations by pinning the blame on someone's malevolent intentions and fiendish plots.

Circular reasoning is infallible even if not exactly logical, and this is why so many of us so often resort to it—not so much to resolve baffling problems, but to be absolved of the obligation to worry about them.

When arguing with a fool, make sure the opponent isn't doing the exact same thing.

Lincoln characterized Stephen Douglas's argument as a specious and fantastic arrangement of words, by which a man can prove a horse chestnut to be a chestnut horse.

Be guided by reason. Cold Calculated unimpassioned reason

The light obtained by setting straw men on fire is not what we mean by illumination.

The logic of nationalism always flows downhill, toward the gutter.

I suppose we couldn't realize, or could realize but couldn't accept, that the logic of business is not a logic in that sense. It's not only a narrow consideration of profits and losses, but a larger logic of, well, appetite. To buy something is to assert oneself, and to sell it, for whatever reason, is to collaborate in one's own diminishment.