Quotes About Reasoning

I could see no reason for being sad. It´s just that it makes me unhappy not to feel happy.

In conclusion, I submit that, far from science having buried God, not only do the results of science point towards his existence, but the scientific enterprise itself is validated by his existence.

Without analysis, no synthesis.

The true Logic for this world is the Calculus of Probabilities, which takes account of the magnitude of the probability.

It was the evidence from science and history that prompted me to abandon my atheism and become a Christian.

Without mathematics, there's nothing you can do. Everything around you is mathematics. Everything around you is numbers.

It would be better for the true physics if there were no mathematicians on earth.

The cure for a fallacious argument is a better argument, not the suppression of ideas.

Mathematics is less related to accounting than it is to philosophy.

We endeavour to employ only symmetrical figures, such as should not only be an aid to reasoning, through the sense of sight, but should also be to some extent elegant in themselves.

Scientific reasoning is a dialogue between the possible and the actual, between proposal and disposal between what might be true, and what is in fact the case.

You cannot reason people out of a position that they did not reason themselves into.

C'este donc par l'étude des mathématiques, et seulement par elle, que l'on peut se faire une idée juste et approfondie de ce que c'est qu'une science.

As a scientist, I don't believe anything. Science shouldn't use the word belief. There are things more likely and less likely. Science can say nothing with absolute certainty.

Science is simply common sense at its best.

By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.

The unreasonable efficiency of mathematics in science is a gift we neither understand nor deserve.

All cats die. Socrates is dead. Therefore Socrates is a cat.

Induction for deduction, with a view to construction.

Geometry is the science of correct reasoning on incorrect figures.

Philosophy is empty if it isn't based on science. Science discovers, philosophy interprets.

Science is not a substitute for common sense, but an extension of it.

Pure logic could never lead us to anything but tautologies; it can create nothing new; not from it alone can any science issue.

Truth has nothing to do with the conclusion, and everything to do with the methodology.