In an approximate way, the logic of commons has been understood for a long time, perhaps since the discovery of agriculture or… — Garrett Hardin Copy Share Image
It is possible--indeed possible even according to the old conception of logic--to give in advance a description of all 'true' logical propositions.… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
“Man is a rational animal. But that does not mean that he is a reasonable animal. It means only that he has… — Frank Sheed Copy Share Image
My mother was an economics professor. I'm proficient in math, and statistics, game theory, symbolic logic and all of that. — Dave Hickey Copy Share Image
The sooner you 'settle' the sooner you'll be allowed home" was the ruling logic; and "if you can't adapt yourself to living… — Janet Frame Copy Share Image
The logic behind patriotism is a mystery. At least a man who believes that his own family or clan is superior to… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
“For wicked people to do evil requires money, and good people superstition. Combining these elements and we get organized religion, but to… — Sean S Kamali Copy Share Image
“If man was a logical creature: his last suspect—namely, his mouth—was going to be the first; whenever he thinks that someone, or,… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
To make music means to express human intelligence by sonic means. This is intelligence in its broadest sense, which includes not only… — Iannis Xenakis Copy Share Image
I still partially suffer from the delusion that if you explain things logically and systematically, most people will abandon their emotional prejudices… — Jim Goad Copy Share Image
It turned out I was pretty good in science. But again, because of the small budget, in science class we couldn't afford… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
Since my logic aims to teach and instruct the understanding, not that it may with the slender tendrils of the mind snatch… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
“It is debatable whether blind faith is truly faith at all. Faith is the perceptive gray area where scientific facts meet an… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
Not only does neoliberalism undermine both civic education and public values and confuse education with training, it also treats knowledge as a… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
The general mental qualification necessary for scientific advancement is that which is usually denominated "common sense," though added to this, imagination, induction,… — Joseph Henry Copy Share Image
I've already written a section in the annual report for next year explaining why I think in one case that the figures… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
The subject of my work has a lot to do with general, artistic matters, questions like: What is creativity? Where do we… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Religion is beyond the realm of logic, but if any priest, pundit or maulvi tries to justify his religion with logic, it… — Tarif Naaz Copy Share Image
When you are faced with prejudice, logic and justice are impotent. Still, we may have an obligation to argue directly into the… — Gerry Spence Copy Share Image
Iran's strong logic and firm diplomacy is the guideline for all government officials in negotiations on country's peaceful nuclear program with foreigners,… — Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Copy Share Image
The transition between competing paradigms cannot be made a step at a time, forced by logic and neutral experience. Like the gestalt… — Thomas Kuhn Copy Share Image
To write music is to raise a ladder without a wall to lean it against. There is no scaffolding: the building under… — Arthur Honegger Copy Share Image
Perhaps there is supranatural: reason beyond the normal definitions of fact or data-based logic; something that only makes sense if you can… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It's a no-win argument - that business of what we're born with and what our environment does to us. And it's a… — John Irving Copy Share Image
Logic is the procession or proportionate unfolding of the intuition; but its virtue is as silent method; the moment it would appear… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The two operations of our understanding, intuition and deduction, on which alone we have said we must rely in the acquisition of… — Rene Descartes Copy Share Image
You cannot approach people who think differently with reason and logic if they don't know what that means. First, you have to… — Jacque Fresco Copy Share Image
“And so we push them away because a twisted logic tells us that we need to protect them from us. And so… — Khaya Dlanga Copy Share Image
“Logic was, formerly, the art of drawing inferences; it has now become the art of abstaining from inferences, since it has appeared… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I love to play humorous moments in dramatic shows. That's always the most fun: to keep the logic of the character in… — Robert Picardo Copy Share Image
There is a logic of colors, and it is with this alone, and not with the logic of the brain, that the… — Paul Cezanne Copy Share Image
I dread naming pieces of music because being instrumental, most of the time the songs that I write are instrumental, I want… — Yanni Copy Share Image
Man has such a predilection for systems and abstract deductions that he is ready to distort the truth intentionally he is ready… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Deduction, which takes us from the general proposition to facts again-teaches us, if I may so say, to anticipate from the ticket… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
“Five GOP representative candidates this session have shocked me to my soul at how blatant they have trivialized rape. My prayers were… — Diane Chamberlain Copy Share Image
“let your aim be to come at truth, not to conquer your opponent. So you never shall be at a loss in… — James Burgh Copy Share Image
Doctor Who has never pretended to be hard science fiction … At best Doctor Who is a fairytale, with fairytale logic about… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
In my work you often get an abrupt shift in time, a jolt. But the emotional logic will take the reader on.… — Graham Swift Copy Share Image
Analytic It is clear that the definition of "logic" or "mathematics" must be sought by trying to give a new definition of… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
There are values of humanity, culture, beauty, community that may require deviations from the cold logic of market theory. — Anthony Lewis Copy Share Image
