Ideas Quote by Gian-Carlo Rota

What makes all doctrines plain and clear? About two hundred pounds a year. And that which was proved true before, prove false again? Two…

— Samuel Johnson

“you want to ask yourself constantly if the revised statement is true and under what circumstances it could be wrong.”

— Victor Cheng

You are more likely to believe that a statement is true if you have heard it before - whether or not it is actually…

— David Eagleman

Truth does not need argument, agreement, theories or beliefs. There is only one test for it and that is to ask yourself 'Is the…

— Barry Long

The following statement is true: The previous statement is false

— George Carlin

“The basic principles of logic dictate that a statement cannot be both true and false at the same time... and that a statement must…

— Sarah Arthur

“If there is one true statement true of every living person it must be this: he hasn’t achieved his full potential.”

— William Schultz

If we do take statements to be the primary bearers of truth, there seems to be a very simple answer to the question, what…

— J. L. Mackie

There is nothing which an untrained mind shows itself more hopelessly incapable, than in drawing the proper general conclusions from its own experience. And…

— John Stuart Mill

[Mathematics] unceasingly calls forth the faculties of observation and comparison; one of its principal weapons is induction: it has frequent recourse to trial and…

— James Joseph Sylvester

“There’s an empty shelf here with your name and dates?” “There is. And it was beginning to sound nice. But then I got called…

— Victoria Schwab

Induction makes you feel guilty for getting something out of nothing, and it is artificial, but it is one of the greatest ideas of…

— Herbert Wilf