Both the physicist and the mystic want to communicate their knowledge, and when they do so with words their statements are paradoxical and full of logical contradictions.
The supreme maxim in scientific philosophising is this: wherever possible, logical constructions are to be substituted for inferred entities.
A standard international language should not only be simple, regular, and logical, but also rich and creative.
you could be ordinary and attempt something extraordinary, without being able to explain it in a logical way.
I have a tendency sometimes to get too logical with what I'm writing, just because I want it to be kind of perfect.
I teach people to be flexible, scientific and logical in their thinking and therefore to be less prone to brainwashing by the therapist.
Racism is to the current era what unAmericanism was to the Fifties: a curse word that provides a handy substitute for logical thought.
Professionally, it would be a logical choice, but my personal view is that he is the most insincere man I know in football
If mankind had always been logical and wise, history would not be a long chronicle of folly and crime.
The logical quandaries thrown up by well-meaning systems are clearly something that I find darkly amusing.
One way we can enliven the imagination is to push it toward the illogical. We're not scientists. We don't always have to make the logical, reasonable leap.
Religion is dogmatic. Politic is ideological. Reason must be logical, but literature has a privilege of being equivocal.
When you're in the desert you witness acts of power. When you're in the world of the tonal, drop all that nonsense, become logical and orderly and have fun with that.
The new art must be based upon science - in particular, upon mathematics, as the most exact, logical, and graphically constructive of the sciences.
Silicon Valley is like Wall Street in that it will fill and pursue market opportunities to their logical extremes.
I think, as a young guy, I was always drawn to being in wild places. Climbing was a logical extension of that.
There is no logical reason why the camel of great art should pass through the needle of mob intelligence.
Of all the logical impasses, unknowings, paradoxes, and terrors that provoke laughter, death by its finality and unsolvable mystery is paramount.
You cannot control faeries. Can. Not. They aren't logical or rational. They don't obey the same laws (physical, social, emotional, traffic - you name it) that we do.
Privatization of the postal system has long been characterized as absurd, but I have always said it is only logical.
If you take Darwin's theory and extend it to its logical end, it can be used to justify a number of very horrendous things.
Since there is absolutely no logical reason to assume there is an afterlife, I decided to make the life I have now as much fun as possible.
There can be no autonomous agent with unitary interests called 'society' that exerts causal influence. This is a logical impossibility
We are long-term players in the industry. We're not just crazy and emotional. We try to be logical business managers.
I followed his argument with the blank uneasiness which one might feel in the presence of a logical lunatic.
For mathematics, even to the logical forms in which it moves, is entirely dependent on the concept of natural number.
I have my own logic. I don't listen to anyone unless it's logical to me and not many people understand and appreciate my thinking.
Chess is a very logical game and it is the man who can reason most logically and profoundly in it that ought to win.
Painting is so poetic, while sculpture is more logical and scientific and makes you worry about gravity.
Art is magic, not logic. This craze for the logical spirit in irrational shape is part of the present harmful mania for uniformity.
There is just no sensible, logical reason why we would not make use of stem cell research.
Nothing is as depressing as absolute logic. Look at the maze of French politics perpetrated by a logical people.
If what we are doing with our anger is not achieving the desired result, it would seem logical to try something different.
Is the distinction between living for Christ and dying for Him so great? Is not the second the logical conclusion of the first?
I'm surprised when I see someone doing the logical, commonsense thing: Walk facing the oncoming traffic.
The word 'definition' has come to have a dangerously reassuring sound, owing no doubt to its frequent occurrence in logical and mathematical writings.
I consider myself a logical person and, you know, a lot of people try to categorize me in one way or another.
I always devise a background so that it makes what your character goes through logical and keeps up the continuity.
The purpose of this study is to offer a logical, practical, pragmatic proof of the existence of God from a purely scientific perspective.
Play stimulates the parts of the brain involved in both careful, logical reasoning and carefree, unbound exploration.
My first recollection of performing was shortly after my parents split up, so the logical conclusion to draw is that that affected me.
I have not come to know atheism as a result of logical reasoning and still less as an event in my life: in me it is a matter of instinct.
Nothing is fair. The most one can hope is for things to be logical. Justice is a rare illness in a world that is otherwise a picture of health.
Dramatic experience is not logical; it may be subdued to the kind of coherence that we indicate when we speak, in criticism, of form.
I think, social business is the most logical thing to do. If we had done that, we could reduce all the problems we have.
France is a nation devoted to the false hypothesis on which it then builds marvelously logical structures.
You overcome the logical resistance to change by proving that a new approach actually works, usually on a small scale.
A long apprenticeship is the most logical way to success. The only alternative is overnight stardom, but I can't give you a formula for that.
Panic---a deep abiding, free-floating anxiety, often without any reason or logical basis.
The rise of the Soviet school to the summit of world chess is a logical result of socialist cultural development.
Qualities I sought in a scientific theory were naturalness, inner perfection and logical simplicity from an aesthetic approach.
People imagine that programming is logical, a process like fixing a clock. Nothing could be further from the truth.
It is logical for a U.S. person to give their money away while they are alive, as the government will take it from you when you die in taxes.
I think of myself as an experimentalist even though much of my music sounds logical and normal, in a sense.
The strictly logical mind is usually if not always at fault in its valuations of that defiantly illogical thing known as human nature.
Engineers are very logical and everything has to be tested so when we fail, we'll know why and how to improve things.
Now this principle of induction cannot be a purely logical truth like a tautology or an analytic statement. . . .
Playing for complications is an extreme measure that a player should adopt only when he cannot find a clear and logical plan.
Some problems are just too complicated for rational, logical solutions. They admit of insights, not answers.
I have often had a retrospective vision where everything in my past life seems to fall with significance into logical sequence.
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