Top 1200 Mathematical Logic Quotes & Sayings - Page 15

The temptation to believe that the Universe is the product of some sort of design, a manifestation of subtle aesthetic and mathematical judgment, is overwhelming. The belief that there is "something behind it all" is one that I personally share with, I suspect, a majority of physicists.

No I.D. executive-produced 'Under Pressure' and helped me find the Logic sound that's evolving every day.

Science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic.

But we must not underestimate the potency of the mathematical process of abstraction. A surprising variety of things happen to have both magnitude and direction and to combine according to the parallelogram law; and many of them are not at all reminiscent of journeys.

Mathematics is, as it were, a sensuous logic, and relates to philosophy as do the arts, music, and plastic art to poetry.

I was a pedantic child. I'd get really annoyed at the logic of small things that don't bother anyone else.

I spend quite a lot of time thinking about how curated our information is. What we watch, what we read, what we buy, often who we talk to, is all shaped and influenced by some kind of a mathematical algorithm.

There's nothing more annoying than cold logic and reason when you've got a good fit going.

To know, to get into the truth of anything, is ever a mystic art, of which the best logic's can but babble on the surface.

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.

We will never fully explain the world by appealing to something outside it that must simply be accepted on faith, be it an unexplained God or an unexplained set of mathematical laws.

Every relationship can feel saturated by market logic or at best purchased at the price of the immiseration of others.

I'm interested in complexity, in the mathematical sense, as well as the idiomatic sense. The idea of emergence - that it's possible for complex patterns to arise out of many simple interactions - is fascinating.

Mathematics expresses values that reflect the cosmos, including orderliness, balance, harmony, logic, and abstract beauty.

I like absurdist aesthetics. There's something about dream logic that's really fascinating, how it interweaves with narrative.

Impulse is, after all, the best linguist; its logic, if not conformable to Aristotle, cannot fail to be most convincing.

All mathematical laws which we find in Nature are always suspect to me, in spite of their beauty. They give me no pleasure. They are merely auxiliaries. At close range it is all not true.

If you think about the practical difficulties of having a relationship with somebody on the other side of the world, it defies all logic.

God is represented as infinite, eternal, incomprehensible; he is contained under every predicate in non that the logic of ignorance could fabricate.

I write and do all my arrangements on my Mac. And um, I use Logic Pro, which is a great software program.

Euclid manages to obtain a rigorous proof without ever dealing with infinity, by reducing the problem [of the infinitude of primes] to the study of finite numbers. This is exactly what contemporary mathematical analysis does.

Most mistakes in philosophy and logic occur because the human mind is apt to take the symbol for the reality.

There is no logic that can be superimposed on the city; people make it, and it is to them, not buildings, that we must fit our plans.

You might not think that programmers are artists, but programming is an extremely creative profession. Its logic-based creativity.

It was a distorted form of inverse logic: If hopes never come true, then hope for what you don't want.

We live in a world with huge repositories of logic and even greater such of information-but, alas, so little wisdom.

It is almost possible to say that there is a mathematical relationship between the beauty of his surroundings and the activity of the child; he will make discoveries rather more voluntarily in a gracious setting than in an ugly one.

For anybody who's ever been on the other end of, like, racial violence logic is not something that can be used.

It is a myth, not a mandate, a fable not a logic, a symbol rather than reason by which men are moved.

...simple logic tells you that if somebody wants you dead you have one course of action: To get them deader sooner.

You can be totally rational with a machine. But if you work with people, sometimes logic often has to take a backseat to understanding.

You might not think that programmers are artists, but programming is an extremely creative profession. It's logic-based creativity.

To my mathematical brain, the numbers alone make thinking about aliens perfectly rational. The real challenge is to work out what aliens might actually be like.

It is with children that we have the best chance of studying the development of logical knowledge, mathematical knowledge, physical knowledge, and so forth.

The most rational defender of nature is driven by a passion for wildness that cannot be explained by an appeal to logic.

Those philosophers who believe in the absolute logic of truth have never had to discuss it on close terms with a woman.

Show me the manner in which a nation or a community cares for its dead and I will measure with mathematical exactness the tender sympathies of its people, their respect for the laws of the land and their loyalty to high ideals.

How can a modern anthropologist embark upon a generalization with any hope of arriving at a satisfactory conclusion? By thinking of the organizational ideas that are present in any society as a mathematical pattern.

Somehow, in painting I try to make some logic out of the world that has been given to me in chaos.

Thus, the more succinctly a train of thought was expounded, and the more comprehensive the unity of its basic idea, the closer it would approximate to the prerequisites of the mathematical way of thinking.

You need a long hard day's work to reveal the logic of the craving for very bad tv and alcohol.

As a child, I loved fairy tales because the story, the what-comes-next, is paramount. As an adult, I'm fascinated by their logic and illogic.

There are values of humanity, culture, beauty, community that may require deviations from the cold logic of market theory.

With laissez-faire and price atomic, ecology's uneconomic, But with another kind of logic economy's unecologic.

It isn't often that the logic behind a policy is so clear. But when it comes to the value of educating girls, the evidence speaks for itself.

Story is the vehicle we use to make sense of our lives in a world that often defies logic.

The highly complex, almost mathematical, nature of music creates for it an ironclad protection against the microbes of dilletantism, which penetrate much more easily into the fields of painting, literature, and the theater.

I did what I could to inflate the rumor I was on my way to stardom. What I was on my way to, by any mathematical standards known to man, was oblivion, by way of obscurity.

Of science and logic he chatters, As fine and as fast as he can; Though I am no judge of such matters, I'm sure he's a talented man.

People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.

In the main, and from the beginning of time, mysticism has kept men sane. The thing that has driven them mad was logic.

Being a mathematical genius doesn't do you any favors as far as having something to say in music. You see every style as equal, and you want complicated music to devour.

There's barely any aspect of our modern lives that hasn't had a mathematical contribution at some point and yet, if you asked the average person, they might think that maths is just difficult, irrelevant and uninteresting.

I tended to be more a romantic than a realist, and chose blind faith over cold logic.

It seems to me that if there were any logic to our language, trust would be a four letter word.

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

There can be no doubt that the knowledge of logic is of considerable practical importance for everyone who desires to think and to infer correctly.

Any useful logic must concern itself with Ideas with a fringe of vagueness and a Truth that is a matter of degree.

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

For once, you're going to hear something that doesn't fit into your neat, compartmentalized world of order and logic and reason.