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Logic Quotes by Henri Poincare
- It is by logic we prove. It is by intuition we discover.
- When the logician has resolved each demonstration into a host of elementary operations, all of them correct, he will not yet be in possession of…
- There are no solved problems; there are only problems that are more or less solved.
- It is by logic that we prove, but by intuition that we discover. To know how to criticize is good, to know how to create…
- What is a good definition? For the philosopher or the scientist, it is a definition which applies to all the objects to be defined, and…
- Thus, be it understood, to demonstrate a theorem, it is neither necessary nor even advantageous to know what it means. The geometer might be replaced…
- A first fact should surprise us, or rather would surprise us if we were not used to it. How does it happen there are people…
- Intuition is more important to discovery than logic.
More Logic Quotes
- Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause of the… — Mahmoud Abbas
- 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