Belief Quote by Bertrand Russell

Without deductive logic science would be entirely useless. It is merely a barren game to ascend from the particular to the general, unless afterwards…

— Alfred North Whitehead

With method and logic one can accomplish anything.

— Agatha Christie

“Mathematics works only with computationally reducible systems. Axioms and deductive logic are intended to provide shortcuts, to give general results that can compress a…

— Richard Bookstaber

Without computers we will be stuck only proving theorems that have short proofs.

— Kenneth Appel

More than sixty years ago, mathematical logicians, by defining precisely the concept of an algorithm, gave content to the ancient human idea of an…

— David Berlinski

That arithmetic is the basest of all mental activities is proved by the fact that it is the only one that can be accomplished…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

In truth, one cannot, it seems, oppose mechanism and finalism, one cannot oppose mechanism and anthropomorphism, for if the functioning of a machine is…

— Georges Canguilhem

Any programming language is at its best before it is implemented and used. Anything is possible, anything can happen. On a flimsy ground of…

— August Strindberg

In truth, one cannot, it seems, oppose mechanism and finalism, one cannot oppose mechanism and anthropomorphism, for if the functioning of a machine is…

— Georges Canguilhem

As a science, logic institutes an analysis of the process of the mind in reasoning, and investigating the principles on which argumentation is conducted;…

— Richard Whately

“Logic may be conceived as ruling out what is absolutely impossible, and thus determining the field of what in the absence of empirical knowledge…

— Morris F. Cohen

Computing machines perhaps can do the work of a dozen ordinary men, but there is no machine that can do the work of one…

— E. B. White