Discussion and argument are essential parts of science; the greatest talent is the ability to strip a theory until the simple basic… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
When you go to the darkest place, all reason and logic deserts you and you are very dependent on having good people… — Noel Edmonds Copy Share Image
It is well known that the central problem of the whole of modern mathematics is the study of transcendental functions defined by… — Felix Klein Copy Share Image
The short, unhappy life of a corn-fed feedlot steer represents the ultimate triumph of industrial thinking over the logic of evolution. — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Why should ANYTHING go right; even observation and deduction? Why should not good logic be as misleading as bad logic? They are… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
I happen to have been born a Cartesian. The French education is based on a sequence of strict logic. You carry it… — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
“Peace is a flawed logic. They believe that communication and understanding will create peace. However, just because you know and understand the… — Lionel Suggs Copy Share Image
The "can do" logic, by its own nature, does not accept limits. And an empire does not have a graceful way to… — Graciela Chichilnisky Copy Share Image
Right up till the 1980s, SF envisioned giant mainframe computers that ran everything remotely, that ingested huge amounts of information and regurgitated… — Walter Jon Williams Copy Share Image
Russia, despite its heavy flirtation with capitalism and some quite unsavory oligarchs, is still building its foreign policy on the Soviet ideals… — Andre Vltchek Copy Share Image
Everybody's got a puncher's chance in this game. I mean every single person on Earth. But my whole focus, my whole style,… — Dominick Cruz Copy Share Image
I think that children have a power to imagine that is almost magical when compared to the adult imagination, and this is… — Joseph Weizenbaum Copy Share Image
You can't. Do you hear me? You think you've figured something out? You run over here so pleased with yourself because you… — David Auburn Copy Share Image
“Cursed luck! —said he, biting his lip as he shut the door, —for man to be master of one of the finest… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
It must be granted that in every syllogism, considered as an argument to prove the conclusion, there is a petitio principii. When… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Every song has a composer, every book has an author, every car has a maker, every painting has a painter, and every… — Ray Comfort Copy Share Image
“History would not be what it is, the record of man’s crimes and follies, if logic and decency governed its events and… — Ladislas Farago Copy Share Image
It is by logic that we prove, but by intuition that we discover. To know how to criticize is good, to know… — Henri Poincare Copy Share Image
Formality Thus the absence of all mention of particular things or properties in logic or pure mathematics is a necessary result of… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
For me, who only desire to become wise, not more learned or eloquent, these logical or Aristotelian dispositions of parts are of… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
I think the economic logic behind dumping a load of toxic waste in the lowest wage country is impeccable and we should… — Lawrence Summers Copy Share Image
“Much of modern life is based upon a false logic, a logic that assumes that happiness and well-being come from financial prosperity.” — Nic Marks Copy Share Image
We are in the realm not of logic but of wistfulness, and I must maintain that wistfulness is a respectable, serious condition.… — Joseph O'Neill Copy Share Image
Mankind has moved away from the heart of the world to the logic of the mind, and their belief is in the… — Drunvalo Melchizedek Copy Share Image
No one who was not by nature a lover of logic, and an extreme precisian in the use of words and phrases,… — Stuart Dodgson Collingwood Copy Share Image
Science is a method of logical analysis of nature's operations. It has lessened human anxiety about the cosmos by demonstrating the materiality… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
...the logic of the photograph is neither verbal nor syntactical, a condition which renders literary culture quite helpless to cope with the… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
“Given the state of disaster we humans have wrought upon the planet, it seems an argument can be made for the inferiority… — Hope Bohanec Copy Share Image
Grammar and logic free language from being at the mercy of the tone of voice. Grammar protects us against misunderstanding the sound… — Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy Copy Share Image
The analogy between the noises we make when these noises do not symbolize anything which exists, and the worthless checks we write… — Alfred Korzybski Copy Share Image
There are only two means by which men can deal with one another: guns or logic. Force or persuasion. Those who know… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The much vaunted male logic isn't logical, because they display prejudices against half the human race that are considered prejudices according to… — Eva Figes Copy Share Image
“But if they are shown to be, and are the works not of men but of God, why are the unbelievers so… — Athanasius of Alexandria Copy Share Image
From lies to forgeries the step is not so long, and I have written technical essays on the logic of forgeries and… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
But in the new (math) approach, the important thing is to understand what you're doing, rather than to get the right answer. — Tom Lehrer Copy Share Image
Natural science sharpens the discrimination. There is no false logic in nature. All its properties are permanent: the acids and metals never… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A wise man sees failure as progress. A fool divorces his knowledge and misses the logic, And loses his soul in the… — Canibus Copy Share Image
Everything is whole, complete and perfect as it is. There's nothing "wrong." Everything is exactly the way it's supposed to be and… — Drunvalo Melchizedek Copy Share Image
Fear," the doctor said, "is the relinquishment of logic, the willing relinquishing of reasonable patterns. We yield to it or we fight… — Shirley Jackson Copy Share Image
The message I hope to have sent is just the example of being yourself. I tell this to my students: It's not… — Frank Gehry Copy Share Image