Quotes About Logic

Every good businessman or woman carefully analyzes all the available facts before making a decision.

An appeal to the reason of the people has never been known to fail in the long run.

Faith is not contrary to reason.

Every liberal position is built on a fallacy.

Sentences are not as such either true or false.

I'm very familiar with how people can confuse correlation with causation.

The book of female logic is blotted all over with tears, and Justice in their courts is forever in a passion.

Science is a little bit more than a wonderful way of modelling and predicting; it's a wonderful technical abstraction. I think science is a really wonderful technical abstraction.

Every problem can be solved as long as they use common sense and apply the right research and techniques.

Even in something surreal like 'Father Ted,' everything has to logically follow, everything has to lead one to another. The moment the logic of a situation doesn't work then you might as well not bother because people have signed out.

I like the law. I like the part that's about reasoning, about persuasion, about telling stories, about trying to build structures that fall within rules.

The universe is governed by science. But science tells us that we can't solve the equations, directly in the abstract.

Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.

The more I work with the body, keeping my assumptions in a temporary state of reservation, the more I appreciate and sympathize with a given disease. The body no longer appears as a sick or irrational demon, but as a process with its own inner logic and wisdom.

I realize now that this was circular reasoning impregnable to debate.

Faith was the excuse you used if you didn't have a good argument.

Reason, Observation, and Experience — the Holy Trinity of Science.

Blasphemy is an epithet bestowed by superstition upon common sense.

Arguments cannot be answered by personal abuse; there is no logic in slander, and falsehood, in the long run, defeats itself.

The mechanic, when a wheel refuses to turn, never thinks of dropping on his knees and asking the assistance of some divine power. He knows there is a reason. He knows that something is too large or too small; that there is something wrong with his machine; and he goes to work and he makes it larger or smaller, here or there, until the wheel will turn.

Logic is the necessary product of intelligence and sincerity. It cannot be learned. It is the child of a clear head and a good heart.

Inspiration is only necessary to give authority to that which is repugnant to human reason.

The brain is natural. Its food is natural. The result, thought, must be natural. The supernatural can be constructed with no material except the natural.

Clues from chaos, sense from madness.