“Reason, then, goes to work only after it has been supplied with a suitable set of inputs, or premises. If reason is… — Herbert Simon Copy Share Image
Mystical experience of nature can be of particular relevance to our troubled age, bringing deeper into our consciousness and emotions the logic… — Carl von Essen Copy Share Image
Formal logic is mathematics, and there are philosophers like Wittgenstein that are very mathematical, but what they're really doing is mathematics -… — Lawrence M. Krauss Copy Share Image
The science of logic never made a man reason rightly, and the science of ethics never made a man behave rightly. The… — William James Copy Share Image
If we consider that all we deal with represents constantly changing sub-microscopic, interrelated processes which are not, and cannot be identical with… — Alfred Korzybski Copy Share Image
Respect begins with this attitude: "I acknowledge that you are a creature of extreme worth. God has endowed you with certain abilities… — Gary Chapman Copy Share Image
“Every faith has logic even though people after developing faith forget the logic behind the faith. There is a strong logic behind… — Awdhesh Singh Copy Share Image
The theory that gravitational attraction is inversely proportional to the square of the distance leads by remorseless logic to the conclusion that… — Anthony Standen Copy Share Image
“We're surrounded by people who don’t make that distinction. If you say to them ‘there’s a monster living in my closet, you… — Seth Mcfarlane Copy Share Image
When I was at Notre Dame studying under Joe Evans, Frank O'Malley, and others, there was a very lively debate about the… — Bruce Babbitt Copy Share Image
“And the Buddha pointed out that his confusion was justified, for 'the dharma is profound, difficult to see, difficult to understand, peaceful,… — David J. Kalupahana Copy Share Image
“Now, me lord, you know you oughtn’t talk like that at this hour of the morning. Yougot to pardon his lordship, sir,”… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
Alan Rocke's Image and Reality does so many things vividly and convincingly: it shows how visual images led chemistry step by step… — Roald Hoffmann Copy Share Image
We admit, in geometry, not only infinite magnitudes, that is to say, magnitudes greater than any assignable magnitude, but infinite magnitudes infinitely… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Simplicity is all. Simple logic, simple arguments, simple visual images. If you can't reduce your argument to a few crisp words and… — Maurice Saatchi Copy Share Image
It really is worth the trouble to invent a new symbol if we can thus remove not a few logical difficulties and… — Gottlob Frege Copy Share Image
Today the logic goes something like this: 'Calling a ruler Son of God is out of style. No one really does that… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
All the Dachaus must remain standing. The Dachaus, the Belsens, the Buchenwalds, the Auschwitzes - all of them. They must remain standing… — Rod Serling Copy Share Image
“Society invents a spurious convoluted logic tae absorb and change people whae's behaviour is outside its mainstream. Suppose that ah ken aw… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
“Remember, our goal is education and understanding. It’s not to win an argument. Our job is to help blind people see. When… — Eric Worre Copy Share Image
The main condition is that the spiritual ear should be open to overhear and patiently take in, and the will ready to… — John Campbell Shairp Copy Share Image
“We Americans claim to be a peace-loving people. We hate bloodshed; we are opposed to violence. Yet we go into spasms of… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
When quite young I can remember I had no thought or wish of surpassing others. I was rather taken with a liking… — William Stanley Jevons Copy Share Image
“Let us say that this, all of this, has a logic to it. We understand each other, don't we? Are we not,… — Dan Chaon Copy Share Image
It is all about numbers. It is all about sequence. It's the mathematical logic of being alive. If everything kept to its… — Aimee Bender Copy Share Image
I always approach logic without emotion. The math always equals the math. Regardless of whether I discovered the math before anyone else,… — Damon Dash Copy Share Image
“It is often argued that religion is valuable because it makes men good, but even if this were true it would not… — H.L. Mencken Copy Share Image
I have said that science is impossible without faith. ... Inductive logic, the logic of Bacon, is rather something on which we… — Norbert Wiener Copy Share Image
Just between you and me, shouldn’t the World Bank be encouraging MORE migration of the dirty industries to the LDCs [Less Developed… — Lawrence Summers Copy Share Image
It is they [men of science] who hold the secret of the mysterious property of the mind by which error ministers to… — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
There's a simple arithmetical logic at work. Build more unaffordable and not always architecturally sympathetic apartments, watch the rents rise, the tarts… — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
As a piece of writing, The Elementary Particles feels like a bad, self-conscious pastiche of Camus, Foucault and Bret Easton Ellis. And… — Michiko Kakutani Copy Share Image
Successful businesspeople retain a quality most others not only lack but often fail to comprehend, and that's the unrelenting drive to convert… — Robert Herjavec Copy Share Image
“Of course, when you shut off your brain from rational analysis, any book is dangerous. Taking literally ancient parables from thousands of… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
“Majina ya vitabu yanapaswa kuchaguliwa kwa mantiki na kwa makini ya hali ya juu mno, kwa sababu ni miongoni mwa vitu vya… — Enock Maregesi Copy Share Image
Whenever you're writing a book or creating a movie or a game, your first task is to get the reader to suspend… — R. A. Salvatore Copy Share Image
There's a Mr. Hyde for every happy Jekyll face, a dark face on the other side of the mirror. The brain behind… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Catastrophe Theory is-quite likely-the first coherent attempt (since Aristotelian logic) to give a theory on analogy. When narrow-minded scientists object to Catastrophe… — Rene Thom Copy Share Image
In every political community there are varying shades of political opinion. One of the shadiest of these is the liberals. An outspoken… — Phil Ochs Copy Share Image
The fact is, Scripture is filled with divine actions that don't fit our human standards of logic or morality. But they don't… — Francis Chan Copy Share Image