Best 923 quotes in «logic quotes» category

You say that I'm nobody, and you agree that nobody's perfect. Based on logic, I'm a perfect person according to your opinion.

You should be able to handle what life sends your way. You need to use the thread of logic, as best as you can, to skilfully sew onto yourself everything that’s worth living for.

You spend months barely acknowledging someone's existence and then BOOM, you're emotionally addicted to her. Science would probably blame it on chemicals, genetics or something equally logical, but it didn't feel like anything logical

Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.

Absolute virtue is impossible and the republic of forgiveness leads, with implacable logic, to the republic of the guillotine.

A dead end street is a good place to turn around. Can't really fault the logic of that, unless you want to go down the dead end of course!

ALGEBRA is a general Method of Computation by certain Signs and Symbols which have been contrived for this Purpose, and found convenient.

A great artist can really enter the logic of any particular mazurka and fully understand the language of Chopin's music.

All exact science is dominated by the idea of approximation.

All thinking is done with the glands. Logic is added later to tidy things up.

All logic texts are divided into two parts. In the first part, on deductible logic, the fallacies are explained; in the second part, on inductive logic, they are committed.

All propositions are of equal value.

An artistic perspective will jab at you from a different angle; its logic comes like a pitcher with a curveball.

Al-Qaeda's resurgence brings out the worst in the Bush Administration's math and logic.

Although feelings are not supposed to intrude on business discussions, they do anyway - we just disguise them as logic.

Any explanation or logic that explains everything so easily has a hidden trap in it. I'm speaking from experience. Somebody once said if it's something a single book can explain, it's not worth having explained. What I mean is don't leap to any conclusions.

An ounce of logic can be worth more than a ton of tradition that has become obsolete through the weathering of time.

Any suggestion that science and religion are incompatible flies in the face of history, logic, and common sense.

Anything that contradicts experience and logic should be abandoned.

Applied properly, it [logic] can overcome any lack of wisdom, which one only gains through age and experience.

A régime [Nazism] which invented a biological foreign policy was obviously acting against its own best interests. But at least it obeyed its own particular logic.

Arbitrary rules teach kids discipline: If every rule made sense, they wouldn't be learning respect for authority, they'd be learning logic.

Aristotle... a mere bond-servant to his logic, thereby rendering it contentious and well nigh useless.

Arithmetic is where the content lies, and not logic; but logic prompts certainty, and not arithmetic.

Aristotelian logic is massive and marmoreal, but every monument accumulates graffiti.

Art arises from sources other than logic." (p.32)

[Aristotle formal logic thus far (1787)] has not been able to advance a single step, and hence is to all appearances closed and completed.

By logic and reason we die hourly; by imagination we live.

Art serves us best precisely at that point where it can shift our sense of what is possible, when we know more than we knew before, when we feel we have - by some manner of a leap - encountered the truth. That, by the logic of art, is always worth the pain.

Art's supposed to build logic structures.

A scientist is only a human being, a particle in the whole universe. How can the observations and logic of a particle measure the life and size of a phenomenon that is limitless?

Be reasonable with the students and make sure they see the logic in what we're doing.

But with man the case is otherwise, in that when logic leads to any humiliating conclusion, the sole effect is to discredit logic.

Calculus works by making visible the infinitesimally small.

Calculators can only calculate - they cannot do mathematics.

Artists are mystics rather than rationalists. They leap to conclusions that logic cannot reach.

A scientist works largely by intuition. Given enough experience, a scientist examining a problem can leap to an intuition as to what the solution 'should look like.' ... Science is ultimately based on insight, not logic.

A: Socrates is a man. B: All men are mortal. C: All men are Socrates.

A theory must be tempered with reality.

Bad reasoning as well as good reasoning is possible; and this fact is the foundation of the practical side of logic.

Because one cause is bad does not make the opposing cause good.

Business logic and musical logic are utterly incompatible.

But however measurable, there is much more life in music than mathematics or logic ever dreamed of.

By your logic I should also be in charge of Solinade dances, needlework, and horse thieving.

Capitalism inevitably and by virtue of the very logic of its civilization creates, educates and subsidizes a vested interest in social unrest.

Certainly, truth should be strenuous and bold; but the strongest things are not always the noisiest, as any one may see who compares scolding with logic.

Colleges are a unique space in our culture. They're a temporary constellation of humans, like a workplace. And the rules about sexual assault and harassment in a workplace are narrow rules. They're stricter than what's considered criminal on a city street. By this logic, the same rules should exist at universities too.

Chess is the art which expresses the science of logic.

Cole chuckled, saying, “Fear of spiders is arachnophobia, and fear of tight spaces is claustrophobia, but fear of Ali Bell is just called logic.

Does fuzzy logic tickle?