Logical Quote by Isaac Asimov Download Open image “You can prove anything you want by coldly logical reason---if you pick the proper postulates.” — Isaac Asimov ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.1 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Coldly Logical Logical Logical Reason Proper Postulates Prove Reason Want
“. . . you can't do anything absolutely by reason. That's because reason depends on postulates. Postulates defy proof and yet they are essential to reason.” — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
You can "prove" anything on the verbal level, just be accepting the necessary axioms at the beginning. — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
Trying to prove something to someone is never a valid reason for doing anything. — Iyanla Vanzant Copy Share Image
So how does one go about proving something like this? It's not like being a lawyer, where the goal is to persuade other people;… — Paul Lockhart Copy Share Image
Reason cannot show itself more reasonable than to cease reasoning on things above reason. — Philip Sidney Copy Share Image
For those who believe, no proof is necessary. For those who don't believe, no proof is possible. — Stuart Chase Copy Share Image
The BEST WAY to prove things to others is not by telling them what you're gonna do but to make it happen SILENTLY. — Abhishek Tiwari Copy Share Image
I never tried to prove anything to someone else. I wanted to prove something to myself. — Kobe Bryant Copy Share Image
You can rarely prove something to someone who does not want to see it proven, and even more to the point, you can almost… — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
We all have to at some point, prove ourselves and it depends how we want to prove it. The process matters. — Akshara Haasan Copy Share Image
The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know-and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Uncertainty that comes from knowledge (knowing what you don't know) is different from uncertainty coming from ignorance. — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
“Don't you see? It's Galaxy-wide. It's a worship of the past. It's a deterioration - a stagnation!” — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
So the universe is not quite as you thought it was. You'd better rearrange your beliefs, then. Because you certainly can't rearrange the universe. — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
It is in meeting the great tests that mankind can most successfully rise to great heights. Out of danger and restless insecurity comes the… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
“It might seem to you, Peter, that a truck driver, one step above an ape in your view, can't remember. But truck drivers can… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
When life is so harsh that a man loses all hope in himself, then he raises his eyes to a shining rock, worshipping it,… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
“You are a military man and should know better. If there is one science into which man has probed continuously and successfully, it is… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
“Human beings can tolerate an immortal robot, for it doesn't matter how long a machine lasts, but they cannot tolerate an immortal human being… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
“if people believe this, they would act on that belief. Many a prophecy, by the mere force of its being believed, is transmuted” — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Washington bureaucrats have classified the very air we exhale as a pollutant and have gone unchallenged in this incredible assertion. The logical consequence is… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
Playing for complications is an extreme measure that a player should adopt only when he cannot find a clear and logical plan. — Alexander Alekhine Copy Share Image
By committing the scientific method to religious claims you're committing a logical fallacy — Francis Collins Copy Share Image
The idea that I can be presented with a problem, set out to logically solve it with the tools at hand, and wind up… — John Carmack Copy Share Image
For mathematics, even to the logical forms in which it moves, is entirely dependent on the concept of natural number. — Hermann Weyl Copy Share Image
I don’t have to be logical. I’m a leopard. We’re considered wild animals, you know. (Spoken by Megan.) — Amy Neftzger Copy Share Image
“We’re not the greatest thing in the universe, certainly not the smartest. Seems logical there’d be a great many things in it we can’t… — Sylvain Neuvel Copy Share Image
I was lucky that I was getting exposed to a lot of different kinds of films, and I was liking them all. So it… — Steven Soderbergh Copy Share Image
Perhaps art criticism cannot be reformed in a logical sense because it was never well-formed in the first place. Art criticism has long been… — James Elkins Copy Share Image
To exist (in mathematics), said Henri Poincaré, is to be free from contradiction. But mere existence does not guarantee survival. To survive in mathematics… — Mark Kac Copy Share Image
Lawyers tend to be bright people. They tend to be-much more than many journalists I've encountered-sticklers for detail and accuracy, and they have a… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image