“Logic is the kingdom of the unexpected. To think logically is to be perpetually astonished.” — Osip Mandelstam Copy Share Image
You may only get this one life – but lived free of submissive reverence – that is still a thing of rampant beauty. — Trevor Treharne Copy Share Image
There is science, logic, reason; there is thought verified by experience. And then there is California. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Reason is the shepherd trying to corral life's vast flock of wild irrationalities. — Paul Eldridge Copy Share Image
My candidacy is a compelling argument for my candidacy. I want to be President. — John Hodgman Copy Share Image
Logic cannot model causal systems, and paradox is generated when time is ignored [as in logic]. — Gregory Bateson Copy Share Image
“define logic as the science which treats of the operations of the human understanding in the pursuit of truth.” — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
The end point of rationality is to demonstrate the limits of rationality. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“...part of the mind's job was to cast doubt on what the heart knew to be true, and the heart, because it… — Julius Lester Copy Share Image
The conception of the necessary unit of all that is resolves itself into the poverty of the imagination, and a freer logic… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“You need one whole hell of a lot of rationality before it does anything but lead you into new and interesting mistakes.” — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
Supernatural films allow you to bend the rules of time and space - that's really fun, especially for screenwriters who often get… — Leigh Whannell Copy Share Image
This is magic we're talking about. It's supposed to go places science can't, defy logic, wink at technology, fill us all with… — N. K. Jemisin Copy Share Image
Mathematics does not grow through a monotonous increase of the number of indubitably established theorems but through the incessant improvement of guesses… — Imre Lakatos Copy Share Image
Today, chess programs have become so good that even grandmasters sometimes struggle to understand the logic behind some of their moves. — Kenneth Rogoff Copy Share Image
We will convert the entire world to Islam with our logic. We are confident that the Islamic logic, culture, and discourse can… — Mahmoud Ahmadinejad 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
In the study of ideas, it is necessary to remember that insistence on hard-headed clarity issues from sentimental feeling, as it were… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
... while our men seem thoroughly abreast of the times on almost every other subject, when they strike the woman question they… — Anna Julia Cooper Copy Share Image
“There is nothing distinctively scientific about the hypothetico-deductive process. It is not even distinctively intellectual. It is merely a scientific context for… — Peter B. Medawar Copy Share Image
“Intuition is a capacity of our heart. Our heart is the door to allowing Existence to guide us, instead of being directed… — Swami Dhyan Giten Copy Share Image
My brother used to say that when you deal with women, it's difficult to remove emotions from an argument. I never really… — Nathan Fillion Copy Share Image
You need to be naive enough to do things differently. No big publishing house would have allowed us to co-create a fully… — Alexander Osterwalder Copy Share Image
I approached the bulk of my schoolwork as a chore rather than an intellectual adventure. The tedium was relieved by a few… — Steven Chu Copy Share Image
Our universe is ruled by random whim, inhabited by people who laugh at logic. — Jeff Lindsay Copy Share Image
What is flirtatiousness but an argument that life must go on and on and on? — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Logic is not a body of doctrine, but a mirror-image of the world. Logic is transcendental. — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
Their own kind of logic which cries for miracles and, on occasion,... — Jean Giraudoux Copy Share Image
What humans do with the language of mathematics is to describe patterns... — Lynn Steen Copy Share Image
Mathematics - this may surprise or shock some - is never deductive in creation. — Paul Halmos Copy Share Image
The fact that logic cannot satisfy us awakens an almost insatiable hunger for the irrational. — A. N. Wilson Copy Share Image
Logic and sermons never convince, The damp of the night drives deeper into my soul. — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
(He was) a fragile hero to whom we had an emotional attachment so strong and lasting that it defied logic. — Bob Costas Copy Share Image
“If I were a religious person, I would have been very freaking one; mixture of logic and lie.” — M.F. Moonzajer Copy Share Image
“Forever I shall be a stranger to myself, kupo. In psychology as in logic, there are truths but no truth.” — Albert Camus Copy Share Image