Experiment Quote by Carlos Fuentes

“The language of experiment is more authoritative than any reasoning: facts can destroy our ratiocination—not vice versa.”

— Alessandro Volta

I end with a word on the new symbols which I have employed. Most writers on logic strongly object to all symbols. ... I…

— Augustus De Morgan

“human beings have a remarkable ability to understand the logic of a thing without acting in accordance with that logic. And”

— Joshua Guess

“The facts of science always imply a theoretical, which means a symbolic, element.”

— Ernst Cassirer

Language is only the instrument of science, and words are but the signs of ideas.

— Samuel Johnson

“Symbols are miracles we have recorded into language.”

— S. Kelley Harrell

“To say that science is logical is like saying that a painting is paint. ”

— Leon Cooper

“Logic, also, is founded upon suppositions to which nothing in the actual world corresponds,—for instance, on the supposition of the equality of things, and…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Logic is not a theory but a reflexion of the world.”

— Wittgenstein Ludwig

“define logic as the science which treats of the operations of the human understanding in the pursuit of truth.”

— John Stuart Mill

“Logic is relative.”

— John Irving

Experiment is the sole interpreter of the artifices of Nature.

— Leonardo da Vinci