ALGEBRA is a general Method of Computation by certain Signs and Symbols which have been contrived for this Purpose, and found convenient. — Colin Maclaurin Copy Share Image
What is all Knowledge too but recorded Experience, and a product of History; of which, therefore, Reasoning and Belief, no less than… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
As if reasoning were any kind of writing or talking which tends to convince people that some doctrine or measure is true… — Catharine Beecher Copy Share Image
We need science. We need empirical evidence. We can't just use mathematical reasoning to deduce the nature of the world. — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
The quantity of meaning compressed into small space by algebraic signs, is another circumstance that facilitates the reasonings we are accustomed to… — Charles Babbage Copy Share Image
It is contrary to reasoning to say that there is a vacuum or space in which there is absolutely nothing. — Rene Descartes Copy Share Image
Man is the only animal capable of reasoning, though many others possess the faculty of memory and instruction in common with him. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
At root what is needed for scientific inquiry is just receptivity to data, skill in reasoning, and yearning for truth. Admittedly, ingenuity… — Willard Van Orman Quine Copy Share Image
We can never put ourselves in the shoes of children; we cannot fathom their thoughts, we lend them ours; and always following… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Graphology is another in a long list of quack substitutes for hard work. It is appealing to those who are impatient with… — Robert Todd Carroll Copy Share Image
“If poverty defines greatness, then become the poorest person on earth, in terms of weakness and bigotry. And if wealth defines glory,… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
For common instinct of our race declares That body of itself exists: unless This primal faith, deep-founded, fail us not, Naught will… — Lucretius Copy Share Image
“There are very few things which we know, which are not capable of being reduc'd to a Mathematical Reasoning; and when they… — John Arbuthnot Copy Share Image
O that unbelievers would learn of faithful Abraham, and believe whatever is revealed from God, though they cannot fully comprehend it! Abraham… — George Whitefield Copy Share Image
“A good general strategy is reasoning counterfactually: if someone tells you that X is true, ask yourself—(i) what would they say if… — Timothy Ferriss Copy Share Image
The only way to Heaven is prayer; a prayer of the heart, which every one is capable of, and not of reasonings… — Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon Copy Share Image
For these two years I have been gravitating towards your doctrines, and since the publication of your primula paper with accelerated velocity.… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
In all determinations of morality, this circumstance of public utility is ever principally in view; and wherever disputes arise, either in philosophy… — David Hume Copy Share Image
“It is worth while to point out the differing characters of a system and a method, because parents let themselves be run… — Charlotte M. Mason Copy Share Image
They - Young People have exalted notions, because they have not been humbled by life or learned its necessary limitations; moreover, their… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
But in many orders of beauty, particularly those of the finer arts, it is requisite to employ much reasoning, in order to… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Tis evident that all reasonings concerning matter of fact are founded on the relation of cause and effect, and that we can… — David Hume 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
Men are rather reasoning than reasonable animals for the most part governed by the impulse of passion. This is a truth well… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
I am out to introduce a psychic shock into my painting, one that is always motivated by pictorial reasoning: that is to… — Marc Chagall Copy Share Image
“Things that seem morally obvious and intuitive now weren’t necessarily so in the past; many started with nonconforming reasoning.” — Robert M. Sapolsky Copy Share Image
Aesthetic judgments, rather than abstract reasoning, guide and shape the process by which we all come to know what we know. — Daniel Tammet Copy Share Image
“This approach shares an assumption, one dating from the ancient Greeks, that human reasoning can be a source of knowledge.” — Peter V. Rabins Copy Share Image
The best road to correct reasoning is by physical science; the way to trace effects to causes is through physical science; the… — Frances Wright Copy Share Image
“Leaping to conclusions is what we always do in inductive reasoning, but we generally only call it that when the process fails… — Kathryn Schulz Copy Share Image
In your efforts to dazzle us your reasoning has gone awry. You know very well that love is, above all, the gift… — Jean Anouilh Copy Share Image
Mathematics is a language plus reasoning; it is like a language plus logic. Mathematics is a tool for reasoning. — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
About medications that are drunk or applied to wounds it is worth learning from everyone; for people do not discover these by… — Hippocrates Copy Share Image
This idea was also brought out very clearly by Wallace, who emphasized that apparently reasonable activities of man might very well have… — Franz Boas Copy Share Image
“Christ the man died long ago, but Christ the idea of love, still exists, not in any church, rather in the mind… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
I had a feeling once about mathematics - that I saw it all... but it was after dinner and I let it… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
If you step back a little and say we want to do A.I., then you will realize that A.I. needs knowledge, reasoning,… — Oren Etzioni Copy Share Image
I've been to Africa three times. All right? You can't bring Western reasoning into the culture. The same way you can't bring… — Bill O'Reilly Copy Share Image
“Real limitations can be reasonably challenged and expanded, but a hobbled mind is not going anywhere.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
I told him that I thought it was law logic - an artificial system of reasoning, exclusively used in Courts of justice,… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
