Logic Quotes

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Could it be that there were other things more desirable than cold logic and undefiled brain power? — Edgar Rice Burroughs
Either I've invented a whole new logic or, ahem, I'm not playing with a full deck. — Philip K. Dick
Logic, like whiskey, loses its beneficial effect when taken in too large quantities. — Lord Dunsany
The subtleties of mathematics defecate the grossness of our apprehension, and supply the elements of a sounder and severer logic. — William Godwin
I don't see the logic of rejecting data just because they seem incredible. — Fred Hoyle
It was our use of probability theory as logic that has enabled us to do so easily what was impossible for those who thought of… — Unknown Author
Mathematics and logic have been proved to be one; a fact from which it seems to follow that mathematics may successfully deal with non-quantitative problems… — Alfred Korzybski
Production is not the application of tools to materials, but logic to work. — Peter Drucker
The short, unhappy life of a corn-fed feedlot steer represents the ultimate triumph of industrial thinking over the logic of evolution. — Michael Pollan
The life of the law has not been logic; it has been experience. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
First, in your sermons, use your logic, and then your rhetoric; Rhetoric without logic, is like a tree with leaves and blossoms, but no root;… — John Selden
I would like to tell our American, British and Spanish friends that the Iraqi crisis is not a problem between the United States and France,… — Dominique de Villepin
To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event as well as of a precise… — Henri Cartier-Bresson
Why should ANYTHING go right; even observation and deduction? Why should not good logic be as misleading as bad logic? They are both movements in… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
I read one or two other books which gave me a background in mathematics other than logic. — Stephen Cole Kleene
You are nothing if not exhaustive in your self-congratulatory made-up logic. — Brandon Sanderson
Is it my business if somebody wants to burn a flag?...No, it's not...That's called logic and it'll help us all evolve... — Bill Hicks
From the point of view of logic, my report on 'Exclusion principle and quantum mechanics' has no conclusion. I believe that it will only be… — Wolfgang Pauli
Imagine an eye unruled by man-made laws of perspective, an eye unprejudiced by compositional logic, an eye which does not respond to the name of… — Stan Brakhage
As a piece of writing, The Elementary Particles feels like a bad, self-conscious pastiche of Camus, Foucault and Bret Easton Ellis. And as a philosophical… — Michiko Kakutani

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