I am like a machine being driven to excessive rotations: the bearings are incandescing and, in a minute, melted metal will begin… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
We do not look for reason for logic in the passionate entreaties of those who are sick unto death; we are stung… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
“The capacity for logical thought is one of the things that makes us human. But in a world of ubiquitous information and… — Daniel Pink Copy Share Image
“Logic does not generate new truths, but rather allows one to evaluate existing chains of thought for consistency and coherence. It is… — Ali Almossawi Copy Share Image
Rhetoric is the counterpart of logic; since both are conversant with subjects of such a nature as it is the business of… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“There is a time for faith, Bishop, and a time for action. It would be a foolish man who stood on a… — Robyn Young Copy Share Image
Kingsley watched her disappear from the room, wondering if his heart would break. Logic informed him that of course it would not.… — Ben Elton Copy Share Image
In this acausal world, scientists are helpless. Their predictions become postdictions- Their equations become justifications, their logic, illogic. Scientists turn reckless and… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
At one time, many philosophers held that faultless "laws of thought" were somehow inherent, a priori, in the very nature of mind.… — Jean Piaget Copy Share Image
“The “experience” which we need to understand logic is not that such and such is the case, but that something is; but… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
“I am a cuddly atheist... I am against creationism being taught in schools because there is empirical evidence that it is a… — Jim Al-Khalili Copy Share Image
“Logic is the art of non-contradictory identification. A contradiction cannot exist. No concept man forms is valid unless he integrates it without… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“A man goes to a foreign country and kills somebody who's not aggressing against him; in a Hawaiian shirt he's a criminal,… — Stefan Molyneux Copy Share Image
In every enterprise ... the mind is always reasoning, and, even when we seem to act without a motive, an instinctive logic… — Claude Bernard Copy Share Image
“I have previously reduced the whole science of logic to two facts. The first is that our perceptions being every thing for… — Antoine Louis Claude Destutt de Tracy Copy Share Image
How do you get from, "We do not know whether this is protectable human life," to "Therefore, we will not protect it?"… — John Piper Copy Share Image
President Bush Sr. and Secretary Baker, way back when, told Gorbachev, "We are not going to advance NATO into Eastern Europe. We're… — Rashid Khalidi Copy Share Image
We [may] answer the question: "Why is snow white?" by saying, "For the same reason that soap-suds or whipped eggs are white"-in… — William James Copy Share Image
Knowledge is a continuous fabric, in which ideas are connected to other ideas. Reason-free zones, in which people can assert arbitrary beliefs… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
The language of judicial decision is mainly the language of logic. And the logical method and form flatter that longing for certainty… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
I'm not particularly good at coping with it. I just cope. I just leave my brain at the door and just stand… — Robert Pattinson 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
I earned my Ph.D. in philosophy, and one of my specializations was the logic and mathematics of game theory. I've also got… — Brendan Myers Copy Share Image
“It is very important to note that the transcendence of the object is by no means a primitive component necessarily ingredient in… — Max Scheler Copy Share Image
As to the most prudent logicians might venture to deduce from a skein of wool the probable existence of a sheep; so… — Evelyn Underhill Copy Share Image
Elohim was, in logical terminology, the genus of which ghosts, Chemosh, Dagon, Baal, and Jahveh were species. The Israelite believed Jahveh to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My parents were lenient. My mother believed God was another word for nature. I took up Satanism not out of desperation, but… — Anton Szandor LaVey Copy Share Image
“Are [the arts and the sciences] really as distinct as we seem to assume? [...] Most universities will have distinct faculties of… — Stephen Mumford Copy Share Image
Recovering from suffering is not like recovering from a disease. Many people don’t come out healed; they come out different. They crash… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
The insight at the root of artificial intelligence was that these "bits" (manipulated by computers) could just as well stand as symbols… — Daniel Crevier Copy Share Image
School was more than academics; an education prepared you for the humdrum of real life: working with others, tempering one's personality to… — Melissa de la Cruz Copy Share Image
“36. Argument from Incomplete Devastation: A plane crashed killing 143 passengers and crew. But one child survived with only third-degree burns. Therefore… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
When I began my career as a cosmologist some twenty years ago, I was a convinced atheist. I never in my wildest… — Frank J. Tipler Copy Share Image
“At the time I thought the winner in an argument was the person who put forward the most logical support for his… — Mark Barrowcliffe Copy Share Image
My forms are not abstractions of things in the real world. They're also not symbols. I would say that my job is… — Caio Fonseca Copy Share Image
Books on scientific photography with such beauty, breadth, and insight are rare. Felice Frankel's Envisioning Science is chock full of mind-boggling images… — Clifford A. Pickover Copy Share Image
There was a whole cut of the movie where Tom Holland decided to try a woman's voice for the voice of Chucky,… — David Kirschner Copy Share Image
But, today, the idea of faith returns to me. Faith defies logic and propels us beyond hope because it is not attached… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
“There is no right or wrong in this world. No black and white. Remington and I live in the gray area. Logic… — Charleigh Rose Copy Share Image
Over time, it also became important for me to share my management principles with the people I worked with because we had… — Ray Dalio Copy Share Image
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