“Shepherd Book: What are we up to, sweetheart? River: Fixing your Bible. Book: I, um... What? River: Bible's broken. Contradictions, false logistics… — Ben Edlund Copy Share Image
The peasants have seen the future - Greece and France - and concluded that it does not work. Hence their opposition to… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
Ali Bell doesn't play hide-and-seek," Lucas said. "She plays hide-and-pray-I-don't-find-you." Mackenzie smiled. "When Ali Bell gives you the finger, she's telling you… — Gena Showalter Copy Share Image
Yes, I have doubted. I have wandererd off the path. I have been lost. But I always returned. It is beyond the… — Helen Hayes Copy Share Image
“The cheese-mites asked how the cheese got there, And warmly debated the matter; The Orthodox said that it came from the air,… — Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“Wherever a choice has had to be made between the man of reason and the madman, the world has unhesitatingly followed the… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“My feeling is that the concept of superrationality is one whose truth will come to dominate among intelligent beings in the universe… — Douglas Hofstadter Copy Share Image
In any kind of comic scene you're going to perhaps push the boundaries of plausibility but as long as there is some… — Rafe Spall Copy Share Image
Whenever humanity seems condemned to heaviness, I think I should fly like Perseus into a different space. I don't mean escaping into… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
Logic is the subject that has helped me most in picking stocks, if only because it taught me to identify the peculiar… — Peter Lynch Copy Share Image
As a pianist, our particular role is to enter a piece and its logic and create a particular interpretation from our understanding.… — Rafal Blechacz Copy Share Image
A first fact should surprise us, or rather would surprise us if we were not used to it. How does it happen… — Henri Poincare Copy Share Image
As the great naturalist Charles Darwin saw clearly, individual and collective interests often coincide, as in the invisible hand narrative. But he… — Bob Frank Copy Share Image
It was our use of probability theory as logic that has enabled us to do so easily what was impossible for those… — Edwin Thompson Jaynes Copy Share Image
“In the history of ideas, it's repeatedly happened that an idea, developed in one area for one purpose, finds an unexpected application… — Patrick Grim Copy Share Image
Our whole educational system, from the elementary schools to the universities, is increasingly turning out people who have never heard enough conflicting… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
“We are raised in a society where we are taught to believe a more logical reason for an illogical happening rather than… — Nicholas A. McGirr Copy Share Image
“Analytic philosophy, that is to say, can very occasionally produce practically conclusive results of a negative kind. It can show in a… — Alasdair MacIntyre Copy Share Image
Explaining belief has alwayas been difficult. How do you explain a love and a logic at the heart of the universe when… — Edward de Bono Copy Share Image
Managers who assume that higher profits drive better working conditions may have their logic backwards. Contrary to conventional wisdom, our research identified… — James O'Toole Copy Share Image
Every work of science great enough to be well remembered for a few generations affords some exemplification of the defective state of… — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
“Just this past summer, I took online courses in introductory logic and law through civilization. Often the weight of history, with its… — Benson Bruno Copy Share Image
But the science of operations, as derived from mathematics more especially, is a science of itself, and has its own abstract truth… — Ada Lovelace Copy Share Image
...mathematics is distinguished from all other sciences except only ethics, in standing in no need of ethics. Every other science, even logic,… — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
Everything becomes agitated. Ideas quick-march into motion like battalions of a grand army to its legendary fighting ground, and the battle rages.… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
“When we characterize talk as hot air, we mean that what comes out of the speaker’s mouth is only that. It is… — Harry G. Frankfurt Copy Share Image
The time must come inevitably when mankind shall surmount the imbecility of religion, as it has surmounted the imbecility of religion's ally,… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
In [Aristotle's] formal logic, thought is organized in a manner very different from that of the Platonic dialogue. In this formal logic,… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
We now think of internal representation as great big vectors, and we do not think of logic as the paradigm for how… — Geoffrey Hinton Copy Share Image
It's the unlikely juxtaposition of creativity and logic which causes the wooliness and confusion around the term 'innovation'. Everybody wants to be… — James Dyson Copy Share Image
The maxim is, that whatever can be affirmed (or denied) of a class, may be affirmed (or denied) of everything included in… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Let no one rule your mind or body take special care your thoughts remain unfettered. One may be a free man yet… — Christopher Paolini Copy Share Image
“It is certainly true that all beliefs and all myths are worthy of a respectful hearing. It is not true that all… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Logic, too, also rests on assumptions that do not correspond to anything in the real world, e.g., on the assumption that there… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
If it was as logical as that, I wouldn't continue to feel as bad as I do. I know what you're saying,… — Jonathan Carroll Copy Share Image
Hearing things like 'Wake Up' by Lora Logic, or the Raincoats' 'In Love' - that was something I wasn't prepared for. I… — Greil Marcus Copy Share Image
Man is a transitional being, he is not final; for in him and high beyond him ascend the radiant degrees which climb… — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
“It's completely logical," explained the Dodecahedron. "The more you want, the less you get, and the less you get, the more you… — Norton Juster Copy Share Image
Mathematics as an expression of the human mind reflects the active will, the contemplative reason, and the desire for aesthetic perfection. Its… — Richard Courant Copy Share Image
The principles of logic and mathematics are true universally simply because we never allow them to be anything else. And the reason… — A.J. Ayer Copy Share Image