Logic Quotes
The humorous man recognizes that absolute purity, absolute justice, absolute logic and perfection are beyond human achievement and that men have been able to live happily for thousands of years in a state of genial frailty.Brooks Atkinson
Histories make men wise poets, witty the mathematics, subtle natural philosophy, deep moral, grave logic and rhetoric, able to contend.Francis Bacon
If the world were a logical place, men would ride side saddle.Rita Mae Brown
Scientists are the easiest to fool. They think in straight, predictable, directable, and therefore misdirectable, lines. The only world they know is the one where everything has a logical explanation and things are what they appear to be. Children and conjurors - They terrify me. Scientists are no problem against them I feel quite confident.James P. Hogan
Mothers are a biological necessity; fathers are a social invention.Margaret Mead
Only a brave person is willing to honestly admit, and fearlessly to face, what a sincere and logical mind discovers.Rodan of Alexandria
Against logic there is no armor like ignorance.Laurence J. Pete
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
Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.Carl Jung
We live in a Newtonian world of Einsteinian physics ruled by Frankenstein logic.David Russell
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
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
During my eighty - Seven years I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But none of them has done away with the need for character in the individual or the ability to think.Bernard Mannes Baruch
This coffee plunges into the stomach... the mind is aroused, and ideas pour forth like the battalions of the Grand Army on the field of battle.... Memories charge at full gallop... the light cavalry of comparisons deploys itself magnificently; the artillery of logic hurry in with their train of ammunition; flashes of wit pop up like sharp - Shooters.Honore de Balzac
The beauty of religious mania is that it has the power to explain everything. Once God or Satan is accepted as the first cause of everything which happens in the mortal world, nothing is left to chance... logic can be happily tossed out the window.Stephen King
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.
Are you insinuating that I am a purveyor of terminological inexactitudes?Winston Churchill, responding to a journalist
Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.Albert Einstein
Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the real universe is always one step beyond logic.Frank Herbert, Dune
Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.Will Durant
Etymology, n.: Some early etymological scholars come up with derivations that were hard for the public to believe. The term etymology was formed from the Latin etus eaten, the root mal bad, and logy study of. It meant the study of things that are hard to swallow.Mike Kellen
The idea that Bill Gates has appeared like a knight in shining armour to lead all customers out of a mire of technological chaos neatly ignores the fact that it was he, by peddling second - Rate technology, who led them into it in the first place.Douglas Adams, The Guardian
If we were logical, the future would be bleak indeed. But we are more than logical. We are human beings, and we have faith, and we have hope.Jacques Cousteau
Human consciousness arose but a minute before midnight on the geological clock. Yet we mayflies try to bend an ancient world to our purposes, ignorant perhaps of the messages buried in its long history. Let us hope that we are still in the early morning of our April day.Stephen Jay Gould
Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.H. L. Mencken
There is something precious in our being mysteries to ourselves, in our being unable ever to see through even the person who is closest to our heart and to reckon with him as though he were a logical proposition or a problem in accounting.Rudolf Karl Bultmann
The natural superiority of women is a biological fact, and a socially acknowledged reality.Ashely Montagu
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
Exercise alone provides psychological and physical benefits. However, if you also adopt a strategy that engages your mind while you exercise, you can get a whole host of psychological benefits fairly quickly.James Rippe, M. D.
That orgy of wishful thinking that has passed for logic in the present century.F. W. Lawvere
Feelings are not supposed to be logical. Dangerous is the man who has rationalized his emotions.David Borenstein
Human beings are not condemned, because of their biological constitution, to annihilate each other or to be at the mercy of a cruel, self - Inflicted fate.Albert Einstein
The Greeks invented logic but were not fooled by it.Eric Hoffe
All true wealth is biological.Lois McMaster Bujold, Memory
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
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.
