184 quotes found
“Im expecting a miracle. Dont taint it with logic.”
“Logic is a mere iceberg in the Mediterranean of wisdom.”
“You don't love someone because it's the logical thing to do.”
“Life teaches us that human thought almost never walks hand in hand with logic, and it is usually counterproductive to raise the point.”
“If a mathematician wishes to disparage the work of one of his colleagues, say, A, the most effective method he finds for doing this is to ask where the results can be applied. The hard pressed man,...”
“Objectivity begins with the realization that one is subjective.”
“I, therefore, for one, cannot see my way to accepting the agnostic rules for truth-seeking, or wilfully agree to keep my willing nature out of the game. I cannot do so for this plain reason, that a...”
“Quentin was thin and tall, though he habitually hunched his shoulders in a vain attempt to brace himself against whatever blow was coming from the heavens, and which would logically hit the tall pe...”
“The man who cannot believe his senses, and the man who cannot believe anything else, are both insane, but their insanity is proved not by any error in their argument, but by the manifest mistake of...”
“I'm who i wasn't yesterday and who i won't be tomorrow.”
“The expression e=mc2 is the ultimate statement in bounce per ounce.”
“I have previously reduced the whole science of logic to two facts.The rst is that our perceptions being every thing for us, we areperfectly, completely, and necessarily sure of whatever we actually...”
“Where logic reaches, religion leaves.”
“What do you think science is? There's nothing magical about science. It is simply a systematic way for carefully and thoroughly observing nature and using consistent logic to evaluate results. Whic...”
“All men are mortal. Socrates was mortal. Therefore, all men are Socrates.”
“Turing attended Wittgenstein's lectures on the philosophy of mathematics in Cambridge in 1939 and disagreed strongly with a line of argument that Wittgenstein was pursuing which wanted to allow con...”
“Logic was puny in the face of my wrath. Logic was puny and magic was mighty: I had just gotten rebirthed, refilled and renewed, and was fast on my way to resentful.”
“The only reason I'm writing this down is to show how human reason, even very sharp and exact human reason, can get crazily confused and thrown off the track.”
“Don't get involved in partial problems, but always take flight to where there is a free view over the whole single great problem, even if this view is still not a clear one”
“So, Marasi said, you traded a dead mans scarf for another dead mans gun. Butthe gun itself belonged to someone dead, so by the same logicDont try, Waxillium said. Logic doesnt work on Wayne.I bough...”
