Logic Quotes · Page 38

(He was) a fragile hero to whom we had an emotional attachment so strong and lasting that it defied logic.

— Bob Costas

There is no point in using the word 'impossible' to describe something that has clearly happened.

— Douglas Adams

But love was strange. It distorted your perspective and played havoc with your logic.

— Lori Foster

Aristotelian logic is massive and marmoreal, but every monument accumulates graffiti.

— David Berlinski

At first sight, one does not see what relations there can be between religion and logic.

— Emile Durkheim

By the cold Darwinian logic of natural selection, evolution codifies happenstance into strategy.

— David Quammen

I'm not a matchmaker, I don't know the logic behind the decisions they make.

— Dustin Poirier

“In good company one must never want to be entirely and solely right, which is what all pure logic wants [...].”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Some mathematician, I believe, has said that true pleasure lies not in the discovery of truth, but in the search for it.

— Leo Tolstoy

But we all recognise the primary foible of frail humanity - our propensity for embracing hope and shunning logic, our tendency to…

— Stephen Jay Gould

Whenever I see a new film, I deliberately tune down several 'dials' in my mind - critical faculties associated with logic, plotting,…

— David Brin

A logic proof is: you get a starting point and an ending point, and you have to get there through all these…

— Heidi Julavits

Behind every argument is somebody's ignorance. Rediscover the foundation of truth and the purpose and causes of dispute immediately disappear.

— Louis D. Brandeis

One very interesting framework for a company to succeed over time - beyond just business logic and analytics - is, do they…

— Steve Jurvetson

“You could say all you liked about reason and logic and common sense and imagination, but when the chips were down the…

— Mark Haddon

You might not think that programmers are artists, but programming is an extremely creative profession. It's logic-based creativity.

— John Romero

If everything in chemistry is explained in a satisfactory manner without the help of phlogiston, it is by that reason alone infinitely…

— Antoine Lavoisier

...you're waiting because you thought it would follow, you thought there would be some logic, perhaps, something to pull it all together…

— Richard Siken

A close, daily intimacy between two people has to be paid for: it requires a great deal of experience of life, logic,…

— Ivan Goncharov

“In short, we would discover, as we should already, that logic is in the eye of the logician. (For instance, here's an…

— Gloria Steinem

As far as I know, the question of whether and how it could be strategically or morally justified was never the subject…

— Anonymous

Action is the music of our life. Like music, it starts from a pause of leisure, a silence of activity which our…

— Salvador de Madariaga

Marriage, in my culture, has nothing to do with romance. It's a matter of logic. If Mr. and Mrs. Ahmadi like Mr.…

— Firoozeh Dumas

No matter what Tucker Carlson tried - no matter what logic, the law, no matter what he tried - he could not…

— Rush Limbaugh

“Logic ridicules love, and love smiles knowingly at the whole foolishness of logic.   - Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh”

— Nathalie Perlman

There are three sides to every argument. Yours. The other guy's. And the right side.

— Mordecai Richler

“Mathematics is the study of anything that obeys the rules of logic, using the rules of logic.”

— Eugenia Cheng

You can't win. Logic has no power over her when her territory has been invaded by heathens.

— Mira Grant

An artistic perspective will jab at you from a different angle; its logic comes like a pitcher with a curve-ball.

— Anonymous

The thing about smart people is that they seem like crazy to dumb people!!!

— Anonymous

The knowledge of the theory of logic has no tendency whatever to make men good reasoners.

— Anonymous

The purpose of an argument, should not be victorious, but progress...

— Anonymous

“If Time travel were possible, the future would have already taught the present to teach the past how to do it.”

— Atom Tate

World domination is such an ugly phrase. I prefer to call it world optimisation.

— Eliezer Yudkowsky

I want to rip off your logic and make passionate sense to you.

— Jeffrey McDaniel

Logic might be unanswerable because it was so absolutely wrong.

— D. H. Lawrence

“Giving up, or not giving up that's not a problem here Logic means nothing to me anymore I just love her so…

— Yuna Takagi

“...I guess when you believe the word of a complete liar, logic doesn't come into it.”

— A.S. King

He was very much concerned with logic and function, he always worked his solos out before playing them.

— Jamie Muir

Much of what I make is geometric, and has a kind of almost mathematical logic to the form

— Anish Kapoor