Logic Quotes

Mothers are a biological necessity; fathers are a social invention.

Margaret Mead

Penicillin was indeed the product of accidental discovery, but the discovery was made, and the knowledge developed, because certain scientists had definite goals in mind. Chance, Pastuer wrote, favors only the prepared mind. The mind must be prepared not only by scientific training and technological know - How, but also by the awareness of social needs.

Saturday Review

We live in a Newtonian world of Einsteinian physics ruled by Frankenstein logic.

David Russell

The Army has carried the American... ideal to its logical conclusion. Not only do they prohibit discrimination on the grounds of race, creed and color, but also on ability.

Tom Lehre

It is not the literal past that rules us, save, possibly, in a biological sense. It is images of the past.

George Steine

The heart has arguments with which the logic of mind is not aquainted.

Blaise Pascal

If I have learnt anything, it is that life forms no logical patterns. It is haphazard and full of beauties which I try to catch as they fly by, for who knows whether any of them will ever return.

Margot Fonteyn

Logic is like the sword: those who appeal to it shall perish by it.

Samuel Butle

The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.

Albert Einstein

Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.

Albert Einstein

We all dream we do not understand our dreams, yet we act as if nothing strange goes on in our sleep minds, strange at least by comparison with the logical, purposeful doings of our minds when we are awake.

Erich Fromm

Change has a considerable psychological impact on the human mind. To the fearful it is threatening because it means that things may get worse. To the hopeful it is encouraging because things may get better. To the confident it is inspiring because the challenge exists to make things better.

King Whitney Jr.

Only a brave person is willing to honestly admit, and fearlessly to face, what a sincere and logical mind discovers.

Rodan of Alexandria

Young people have an almost biological destiny to be hopeful.

Marshall Ganz, quoted by Sara Rimer in New York Times

Somebody who thinks logically is a nice contrast to the real world.

The Law of Thum

The life of the law has not been logic but experience.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Man has such a predilection for systems and abstract deductions that he is ready to distort the truth intentionally, he is ready to deny the evidence of his senses only to justify his logic.

Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky

The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.

George Santayana

If the world were a logical place, men would ride side saddle.

Rita Mae Brown

We shall continue to have a worsening ecologic crisis until we reject the Christian axiom that nature has no reason for existence save to serve man.

Lynn White, Jr., "The Historical Roots of Our Ecologic Crisis", Science V. 155 No. 3767 (10 March 1967), pp. 1203 - 1207.

The poet only asks to get his head into the heavens. It is the logician who seeks to get the heavens into his head. And it it his head that splits.

G. K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy

Against logic there is no armor like ignorance.

Laurence J. Pete

You know, my Friends, with what a brave Carouse I made a Second Marriage in my house; Divorced old barren Reason from my Bed, And took the Daughter of the Vine to Spouse. For Is and Is - Not though with Rule and Line And Up - And - Down by Logic I define, Of all that one should care to fathom, I Was never deep in anything but - Wine.

From the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (Translation by Edward Fitzgerald)

If the world were a logical place, men would ride sidesaddle.

Rita Mae Brown

Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.

Will Durant

All true wealth is biological.

Lois McMaster Bujold, Memory

Once you touch the biographies of human beings, the notion that political beliefs are logically determined collapses like a pricked balloon.

Irving Layton

Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.

Aldous Huxley

Drama is imagination limited by logic. Mathematics is logic limited by imagination.

Nathan Campbell

Man has a limited biological capacity for change. When this capacity is overwhelmed, the capacity is in future shock.

Alvin Toffle

Are you insinuating that I am a purveyor of terminological inexactitudes?

Winston Churchill, responding to a journalist

Logic is in the eye of the logician.

Gloria Steinem

All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptable. Such people have a tendency to become drunk on violence, a condition to which they are quickly addicted.

Frank Herbert, Chapterhouse Dune, Missionaria Protectiva

To a person in love, the value of the individual is intuitively known. Love needs no logic for its mission.

La Rochefoucauld

To explain the unknown by the known is a logical procedure; to explain the known by the unknown is a form of theological lunacy.

David Brooks

The Greeks invented logic but were not fooled by it.

Eric Hoffe

The more I work with the body, keeping my assumptions in a temporary state of reservation, the more I appreciate and sympathize with a given disease. The body no longer appears as a sick or irrational demon, but as a process with its own inner logic and wisdom.

Dr. Thomas Arnold Mindell