Best 923 quotes in «logic quotes» category

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!

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

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

All propositions are of equal value.

All exact science is dominated by the idea of approximation.

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.

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

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

Anything that contradicts experience and logic should be abandoned.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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?

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.

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 theory must be tempered with reality.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Business logic and musical logic are utterly incompatible.

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

Calculators can only calculate - they cannot do mathematics.

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

Calculus works by making visible the infinitesimally small.

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

Chess is the art which expresses the science of logic.

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.

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

Communism is the final logic of the dehumanization of man.

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.

Each experience of love nudges us toward the Story of Interbeing, because it only fits into that story and defies the logic of Separation.

Could it be that there were other things more desirable than cold logic and undefiled brain power?

Decoration is asked to be 'merely' pleasing, 'merely' embellishing, and the 'functional' logic of Modernism leaves no room, apparently, for such 'mereness.' This is part of the pity of Modernism, one of the sacrifices it enjoins.