Example Quote by Stephen Cole Kleene

Mathematicians care no more for logic than logicians for mathematics.

— Augustus De Morgan

As I say, there was this movement to try to bring philosophers and mathematicians together into an organization where they would talk to each…

— Stephen Cole Kleene

Logic and metaphysics make use of more tools than all the rest of the sciences put together, and do the least work.

— Charles Caleb Colton

Logic is the hygiene the mathematician practices to keep his ideas healthy and strong.

— Hermann Weyl

“The benefit of such horizontal interactions - people sharing knowledge across fields - is that it encourages conceptual blending, which is an extremely important…

— Jonah Lehrer

Logic is an old subject, and since 1879 it has been a great one.

— Willard Van Orman Quine

I read one or two other books which gave me a background in mathematics other than logic.

— Stephen Cole Kleene

Mathematicians create by acts of insights and intuition. Logic then sanctions the conquests of intuition.

— Morris Kline

“define logic as the science which treats of the operations of the human understanding in the pursuit of truth.”

— John Stuart Mill

Some may study side by side, and yet be asunder when they come to the logic of things.

— Confucius

Humans are not ideally set up to understand logic; they are ideally set up to understand stories.

— Roger Schank

It is amusing to discover, in the twentieth century, that the quarrels between two lovers, two mathematicians, two nations, two economic systems, usually assumed…

— Alfred Korzybski