Quotes About Logic

If it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't.

O por el contrario, si fue así, pudo ser, y si así fuera, sería; pero como no es, no es. ¡Es pura lógica!

Algunas personas ¡Tienen menos sentido común que un bebé!

When you peeled back the skin, you were dealing with bone and muscle, blood and nerve endings. It was all the same. She liked the beautiful logic of the circulatory system, the elegance of the neurological, and the fierce warrior spirit of the heart. The body had rules and it had quirks.

Just because I believe in science doesn't mean I ignore superstition. Sometimes there's a basis for those superstitions.

La línea entre la fe y el fanatismo está en constante movimiento -respondió el profesor- ¿Cuándo se convierte la fe en justificación? Cuándo se transforma el derecho en lógica y la cruzada en delito?

God save me from a woman's way of thinking. What the hell kind of logic is that? One has nothing to do with the other." "Maybe not to you, but let's face it, you're plankton, and I'm a higher life form. Details matter to me.

I will, in fact, claim that the difference between a bad programmer and a good one is whether he considers his code or his data structures more important. Bad programmers worry about the code. Good programmers worry about data structures and their relationships.

sort. The authority of sober reason is being undermined. The paltry varnish of logic is being scraped away. An epoch is at hand during which the large, partially hyperdeveloped animal, known as man, will revert to his fundamentals. Aren't you thrilled to be living during these times?" Quietly, he turned his

No, my fatalism is yet not as primitive as that. It is rather the logical outcome of unfortunate experiences with the consistent application of intelligence.

Freud showed, too, how the mind, in one of its parts, could work without logic, yet not without that directing purpose, that control of intent from which, perhaps it might be said, logic springs. For the unconscious mind works without the syntactical conjunctions which are logic's essence.

most scientific problems are far better understood by studying their history than their logic.

There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.

I would like to see our society mature, and become more rational and more knowledge-based, less emotion-based.

Business and its logic of productivity have become the reference point in a society that thinks marketing every time it opens its mouth.

Too much reasoning has spoiled the contemporary mind. People have lost their hearts and faith.

You believe in a book that has sticks turning into snakes, and you say we are the ones that need help?

Nothing is so deceptive as human reasoning, - nothing so slippery and reversible as what we have decided to call 'logic.' The truest compass of life is spiritual instinct.

Common sense is what tells us the earth is flat.

Propositions are true or false. Images are not.

No one can prove logically, that the Bible is the word of God, but what Jesus did proved crazily the love of God.

And why did we need both an SEC and a CFTC—which often battled each other—to regulate the securities markets? Was the profusion of agencies grounded in some underlying legal or economic logic, or was it mainly about turf? The main answer was political: If you have multiple regulators, you need multiple congressional oversight committees, each of which is a gold mine for political contributions.

If a machine is expected to be infallible, it cannot also be intelligent.

It is possible to invent a single machine which can be used to compute any computable sequence.