Quotes About Reasoning

once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how unlikely, must be the truth.

Criticism, I said, is an attempt to find the weak spots in a theory, and these, as a rule, can be found only in the more remote logical consequences which can be derived from it. It is here that purely logical reasoning plays an important part in science.

317 is a prime, not because we think so, or because our minds are shaped in one way rather than another, but because it is, because mathematical reality is built that way.

A woman uses her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition.

A mathematical proof should resemble a simple and clear-cut constellation, not a scattered cluster in the Milky Way.

In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.

There are those who reason well, but they are greatly outnumbered by those who reason badly.

By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.

Democracy might be defined in different ways relating to contexts and interests; however everyone must accept that the universal beauty of democracy is the right to questioning and reasoning, inquiry for truth and justice.

reasons and two reasons only. One, because

And so you face a curious dilemma, one you will face often if you choose to live a life of integrity and challenge. Is it better to consider all ideas, to determine which one seems to you most reasonable and worthy, and then to speak your mind? Or is it better to follow old patterns and to acquiesce quietly into a general conformity?

More broadly, formal logic of the sort we have been talking about does only one thing well: it allows us to take knowledge of which we are certain and apply rules that are always valid to deduce new knowledge of which we are also certain.

That is the hazard in curiosity, I thought: all the certainties fragment and dissolve. A man curious enough and persistent enough might find even the round and solid ball of earth to be not so. He might be less proud of his faculty of reasoning when it left him with nothing whereon to stand. But then again, was not the truth a more solid foundation than illusion?

We have trouble overcoming the four factors—flawed beliefs, insufficient experience, a passive stance, and a concrete reasoning style—that emerged from the contrasting twins study.

Language builds on our cognitive capacities to reason about the goals and intentions of other people, on our desire to imitate, our desire to communicate, and our twin capacities for using convention to name things and sequence to indicate differences between differing possibilities.

A New York times reporter wrote about David Wilkerson,"He was the model of absolute simplicity, directness and non-sophistication. He sought out gang members, drug addicts and alcoholics with no other weapon than the Bible. He just went out on the streets, mixed with the kids and reasoned with them face to face, often quoting the Bible, and it worked.

On the basis of these definitions, hymns cannot do theology, even when the meaning of "reasoned enquiry" is broadened and qualified. 6 Their brevity and form are ill suited to systematic reasoning, and, though not lacking in rationality, a hymn invites us, not to step back from faith and examine it, but to step into faith and worship God.

Ad hominem and brutality are the voice and expression of logic and reasoning of impotents and inferiors.

Physicists have come to realize that mathematics, when used with sufficient care, is a proven pathway to truth.

In order to communicate rationally and successfully with anyone, you have to make sure they're regulated, make sure they feel a relationship with you, and only then try to reason with them.

Yes. Unfortunately, our schools are typically not trauma-aware and tend to prohibit many of the regulatory activities we've mentioned: walking, rocking, fiddling with things while listening to a lesson, listening to music with your earbuds while doing homework. "Somatosensory regulation," such as the rhythmic activities we have discussed, actually opens up the cortex and makes the reasoning parts of the brain more accessible for learning.

This is where the sequence of engagement comes in. Without some degree of regulation, it is difficult to connect with another person, and without connection, there is minimal reasoning. Regulate, relate, then reason.

It's not that math can solve the world's problems. It's just that the world's problems would be easier to solve if everyone just knew a little bit more math.

He defined a presupposition as a belief that "consciously or unconsciously affects the way a person subsequently reasons.