Logic Quotes

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Logic only gives man what he needs... Magic gives him what he wants. — Tom Robbins
A critic is a man who creates nothing and thereby feels qualified to judge the work of creative men. There is logic in this; he… — Robert A. Heinlein
The logic of war seems to be if the belligerent can fight, he will fight. That leaders will not surrender until surrender is academic. How… — Thomas Powers
Knowledge is awareness, and to it are many paths, not all of them paved with logic. But sometimes one is guided through the maze by… — Louis L'Amour
One of the principal obstacles to the rapid diffusion of a new idea lies in the difficulty of finding suitable expression to convey its essential… — Arthur Schuster
Ordinarily logic is divided into the examination of ideas, judgments, arguments, and methods. The two latter are generally reduced to judgments, that is, arguments are… — Andre-Marie Ampere
To become truly immortal, a work of art must escape all human limits: logic and common sense will only interfere. But once these barriers are… — Giorgio de Chirico
Grammar and logic free language from being at the mercy of the tone of voice. Grammar protects us against misunderstanding the sound of an uttered… — Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy
If everything in chemistry is explained in a satisfactory manner without the help of phlogiston, it is by that reason alone infinitely probable that the… — Antoine Lavoisier
Like MoliÃ¨re's M. Jourdain, who spoke prose all his life without knowing it, mathematicians have been reasoning for at least two millennia without being aware… — Ernest Nagel
It is perplexing to see the flexibility of the so-called 'exact sciences' which by cast-iron laws of logic and by the infallible help of mathematics… — Vasco Ronchi
Mathematics had never had more than a secondary interest for him [her husband, George Boole]; and even logic he cared for chiefly as a means… — Mary Everest Boole
The principles of logic and mathematics are true universally simply because we never allow them to be anything else. And the reason for this is… — A.J. Ayer
When I began my career as a cosmologist some twenty years ago, I was a convinced atheist. I never in my wildest dreams imagined that… — Frank J. Tipler
I strongly believe in the existence of God, based on intuition, observations, logic, and also scientific knowledge. — Charles Hard Townes
Science, with its experiments and logic, tries to understand the order or structure of the universe. Religion, with its theological inspiration and reflection, tries to… — Charles Hard Townes
Summer was here again. Summer, summer, summer. I loved and hated summers. Summers had a logic all their own and they always brought something out… — Benjamin Alire Saenz
317 is a prime, not because we think so, or because our minds are shaped in one way rather than another, but because it is… — G. H. Hardy
If two things don't fit, but you believe both of them, thinking that somewhere, hidden, there must be a third thing that connects them, that's… — Umberto Eco
Logic must look after itself. In a certain sense, we cannot make mistakes in logic. — Ludwig Wittgenstein

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