Quotes About Reasoning

There wanted not some beams of light to guide men in the exercise of their Stocastick faculty.

I believe in God because of a personal faith, a faith that is consistent with what I know about science.

All possible knowledge, then, depends on the validity of reasoning...Unless human reasoning is valid no science can be true.

The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.

The errors which arise from the absence of facts are far more numerous and more durable than those which result from unsound reasoning respecting true data.

Above all, do not attempt to use science (I mean, the real sciences) as a defence against Christianity. They will positively encourage him to think about realities he can't touch and see.

Some of you may have met mathematicians and wondered how they got that way.

All science requires mathematics.

Our duty is to believe that for which we have sufficient evidence, and to suspend our judgment when we have not.

Science is all those things which are confirmed to such a degree that it would be unreasonable to withhold one's provisional consent.

It is not what the man of science believes that distinguishes him, but how and why he believes it. His beliefs are tentative, not dogmatic; they are based on evidence, not on authority or intuition.

This is the most exciting part of being human. It is using our brains in the highest way. Otherwise we are just healthy animals

Logic is a wonderful thing but doesn't always beat actual thought.

No science ever defends its first principles.

I believe that the science of chemistry alone almost proves the existence of an intelligent creator.

I never guess. It is a shocking habit destructive to the logical faculty.

Science is a particular way of thinking about things.

And for mathematical science, he that doubts their certainty hath need of a dose of hellebore.

Every philosophy is tinged with the coloring of some secret imaginative background, which never emerges explicitly into its train of reasoning.

Our account does not rob the mathematicians of their science... In point of fact they do not need the infinite and do not use it.

We can invent as many theories we like, and any one of them can be made to fit the facts. But that theory is always preferred which makes the fewest number of assumptions.

Science has great skills, great reasoning and great intelligence in combining effects. It knows HOW to do many things but it admittedly does not know the WHY of anything.

When the difficulty of a problem lies only in finding out what follows from certain fixed premises, mathematical methods furnish invaluable wings for flying over intermediate obstructions.

Geometry is one of the handles of science and philosophy.