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Logic Quotes by Bertrand Russell
- Only mathematics and mathematical logic can say as little as the physicist means to say.
- The fact that all Mathematics is Symbolic Logic is one of the greatest discoveries of our age; and when this fact has been established, the…
- The conception of the necessary unit of all that is resolves itself into the poverty of the imagination, and a freer logic emancipates us from…
- Ordinary language is totally unsuited for expressing what physics really asserts, since the words of everyday life are not sufficiently abstract. Only mathematics and mathematical…
- Analytic It is clear that the definition of "logic" or "mathematics" must be sought by trying to give a new definition of the old notion…
- Formality Thus the absence of all mention of particular things or properties in logic or pure mathematics is a necessary result of the fact that…
- I am delighted to know that Principia Mathematica can now be done by machinery. . . I am quite willing to believe that anything in…
- In the first place a philosophical proposition must be general. It must not deal specially with things on the surface of the earth, or within…
- Frege has the merit of ... finding a third assertion by recognising the world of logic which is neither mental nor physical.
- But as the work proceeded I was continually reminded of the fable about the elephant and the tortoise. Having constructed an elephant upon which the…
- This illustrates an important truth, namely, that the worse your logic, the more interesting the consequences to which it gives rise.
- The true function of logic ... as applied to matters of experience ... is analytic rather than constructive; taken a priori, it shows the possibility…
More Logic Quotes
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- To the wise, life is a problem; to the fool, a solution. — Marcus Aurelius
- How quick come the reasons for approving what we like! — Jane Austen
- There is science, logic, reason; there is thought verified by experience. And then there is California. — Edward Abbey
- The world is full of strange phenomena that cannot be explained by the laws of logic or science. Dennis Rodman is only… — Dave Barry
- Shop often, shop hard, and spend for the best stuff available - logic dictates that you can make delicious food only with… — Mario Batali
- Everything that is beautiful and noble is the product of reason and calculation. — Charles Baudelaire
- Like dreams, statistics are a form of wish fulfillment. — Jean Baudrillard
- Dialectic thought is an attempt to break through the coercion of logic by its own means. — Theodor Adorno
- Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding. — Ambrose Bierce
- A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent. — William Blake
- No, no, you're not thinking; you're just being logical. — Niels Bohr