Logical Quotes

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Science, in its ultimate ideal, consists of a set of propositions arranged in a hierarchy, the lowest level of the hierarchy being concerned with particular… — Bertrand Russell
Because an appeal makes logical sense is no guarantee that it will work. — William Bernbach
By thinking you cannot decide. It is not a question of deciding as a logical conclusion, it is a question of choiceless awareness. You need… — Rajneesh
Convince us of our errors of doctrine, if we have any, by reason, by logical arguments, or by the Word of God, and we will… — Orson Pratt
But instinct is something which transcends knowledge. We have, undoubtedly, certain finer fibers that enable us to perceive truths when logical deduction, or any other… — Nikola Tesla
What I'm really interested in is whether God could have made the world in a different way; that is, whether the necessity of logical simplicity… — Albert Einstein
If I go out into nature, into the unknown, to the fringes of knowledge, everything seems mixed up and contradictory, illogical, and incoherent. This is… — Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
It must be conceded that a theory has an important advantage if its basic concepts and fundamental hypotheses are 'close to experience,' and greater confidence… — Albert Einstein
The body of science is not, as it is sometimes thought, a huge coherent mass of facts, neatly arranged in sequence, each one attached to… — Lewis Thomas
It is going to be necessary that everything that happens in a finite volume of space and time would have to be analyzable with a… — Richard P. Feynman
The initial stage, the act of conceiving or inventing a theory, seems to me neither to call for logical analysis nor to be susceptible of… — Karl Popper
The philosopher of science is not much interested in the thought processes which lead to scientific discoveries; he looks for a logical analysis of the… — Hans Reichenbach
The theoretical idea ... does not arise apart from and independent of experience; nor can it be derived from experience by a purely logical procedure.… — Albert Einstein
I approached the bulk of my schoolwork as a chore rather than an intellectual adventure. The tedium was relieved by a few courses that seem… — Steven Chu
We [may] answer the question: "Why is snow white?" by saying, "For the same reason that soap-suds or whipped eggs are white"-in other words, instead… — William James
I think, social business is the most logical thing to do. If we had done that, we could reduce all the problems we have. — Muhammad Yunus
No aphorism is more frequently repeated in connection with field trials, than that we must ask Nature few questions, or, ideally, one question, at a… — Ronald Fisher
Someone once said that if you sat a million monkeys at a million typewriters for a million years, one of them would eventually type out… — Peter Kreeft
Both the physicist and the mystic want to communicate their knowledge, and when they do so with words their statements are paradoxical and full of… — Fritjof Capra
To explain the unknown by the known is a logical procedure; to explain the known by the unknown is a form of theological lunacy. — David Brooks

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