Quotes About Logic

I maintain that two and two would continue to make four, in spite of the whine of the amateur for three, or the cry of the critic for five.

But you see, our society is still trapped in this binary, black/white logic and that has had some very positive implications for our generation. It's had some very negative ones as well and one of the negative ones is that it creates enormous identity problems for people who have one black ancestor and all white ancestors for example.

I always thought that common sense would prevail. But on a game show, there is no common sense.

Of causes, some are complete and primary, others auxiliary and proximate. Hence, when we say that all things come about through fate by antecedent causes, we do not mean this to be understood as 'by complete and primary causes,' but 'by auxiliary and proximate causes.'

Every project has its own logic and parameters. In some objects, functionality is primary, and in others, it is rather inconsequential.

Most scientists like to operate in the context of economy. If you don't need an explanatory principle, don't invoke it.

The logic of the world is prior to all truth and falsehood.

Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities.

It is right that we be concerned with the scientific probity of metaphysics.

My dad is a mathematician; I think we both have that problem-solving, looking-for-patterns way of thinking.

A woman's mind focuses on feelings, while a man's mind focuses on problem-solving.

We may either proceed from principles to facts, or recede from facts to principles.

Each of us has a network of emotional and logical associations that is unique to us. Activate one mode of the association, and you activate a predictable pattern of behavior. A situation isn't just the external events that take place; it is how each individual processes those events and integrates them into her thoughts and feelings.

Once I accumulated a bunch of sounds and learned how to use Logic, I was like, 'Wait a second, I don't need to work with any producers. I can do this on my own.'

Pain always produces logic, which is very bad for you.

Historical methodology, as I see it, is a product of common sense applied to circumstances.

I came from doing Wushu and other martial arts, and then I got into movies, and I had to learn that as well - the language of martial arts movie fighting. It's a different thing; it's a different kind of logic.

A different script calls for different things. It always takes me a long time to get to know the part, and know the logic behind the words. I have to be with the script for quite a long time before things start to fall into place, before they become part of the character.

History is a story like any other, but black history is a story so devoid of logic that it frustrates the young reader. The young readers in my house, told of slavery and segregation, asked in disbelief, 'What? Why?' We - the parents of black children, the parents of all children - still need to tell that story.

I think Latin has some logic to it and there was a discipline.

The left brain is responsible for making order out of chaos, for making sense of things in the world that don't always add up. To do this, it often makes up stories, fantastic confabulations in some cases, just to be able to explain what we're experiencing.

Sometimes one must make extended conclusions from limited data.

Decisions should be based on facts, objectively considered.

Science is facts.