Top 1200 Mathematical Logic Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

Go force your condescending man-logic on the next house. You can go now.

...from the time of Kepler to that of Newton, and from Newton to Hartley, not only all things in external nature, but the subtlest mysteries of life and organization, and even of the intellect and moral being, were conjured within the magic circle of mathematical formulae.

Most of the mistakes in thinking are inadequacies of perception rather than mistakes of logic.

Things like the financial markets - a proper grounding in mathematics could help the common man. I believe that if people are more familiar with mathematical concepts... it can help deal with modern life, which is increasingly complex.

It's a simple exercise; a little logic, a little taste, and the will to cooperate.

In this age of specialization, I sometimes think of myself as the last 'generalist' in economics, with interests that range from mathematical economics down to current financial journalism. My real interests are research and teaching.

Learning certain things purely through memory is related to the developmental forces that are present between the sixth or seventh year and the fourteenth year of life. This quality of human nature is what mathematical instruction should be based on.

I can be a new Di Stefano, but I can't be a new Pelé. He is the one that goes beyond the limits of logic.

No daring is fatal. The whole logic of the universe is contained in daring, in creating from the flimsiest, slenderest support.

If a lack of empirical foundations is a defect of the theory of logical probability, it is also a defect of deductive logic.

You can't win. Logic has no power over her when her territory has been invaded by heathens.

The heart wants what it wants. There's no logic to these things. You meet someone and you fall in love and that's that.

Absolute virtue is impossible and the republic of forgiveness leads, with implacable logic, to the republic of the guillotine.

Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.

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

The only way one can guarantee one's loyalty is love. Loyalty is beyond logic, really.

There is no way to use non-Christian language and logic to arrive at Christian utterances, conclusions, and behavior.

I write a lot by sound. One sound leads me to another. These sounds aren't random; they have their own logic.

In the battle between logic and crazy, crazy always wins.

I love you, and beneath all that logic, calculation, and superstition, I know you love me too.

Like works of literature, mathematical ideas help expand our circle of empathy, liberating us from the tyranny of a single, parochial point of view. Numbers, properly considered, make us better people.

Analysis does not owe its really significant successes of the last century to any mysterious use of sqrt(-1), but to the quite natural circumstances that one has infinitely more freedom of mathematical movement if he lets quantities vary in a plane instead of only on a line.

If the ways of the Almighty are not humanly logical, it is not the fault of the Almighty but of the limitations of human logic.

Common sense is not really so common. The Art of Thinking: Port-Royal Logic

I just try to put as much logic into what I'm doing as possible and try to have fun with it.

Now what is history? It is the centuries of systematic explorations of the riddle of death, with a view to overcoming death. That's why people discover mathematical infinity and electromagnetic waves, that's why they write symphonies.

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

It is not humanly possible to gather immediately from it what the logic of language is. Language disguises thought.

But love was strange. It distorted your perspective and played havoc with your logic.

You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.

There are crimes of passion and crimes of logic. The boundary between them is not clearly defined.

Traditionally, scientists have treated the laws of physics as simply 'given,' elegant mathematical relationships that were somehow imprinted on the universe at its birth, and fixed thereafter. Inquiry into the origin and nature of the laws was not regarded as a proper part of science.

I'm very attracted to schematic structures. My brother is a chemical engineer, he has a very mathematical mind, and he's also a visual artist. I think we have a lot in common. And my first film had a very tight structure, narratively.

Do I use VORP? I may be using it and not even know it, and if I am, it's nobody's business. There are a lot of different criteria in judging players. I think I use, um, esoteric qualitative mathematical review times five. That's one of them.

Whatever may be the merits of a religious system, its effects upon the mass of mankind must depend in an important degree upon its teachers. All instruction and all truth, except simple mathematical truth, is modified by the medium through which it is conveyed.

Logic ignores the almost, just as the sun ignores the candle.

Logic has its use and metaphysics has its use, but neither of them is of much help in the making of a creed.

It's the writer's job to disarm the reader of his logic, to just make the reader feel.

When introduced at the wrong time or place, good logic may be the worst enemy of good teaching.

Oppression has no logic--just a self-fulfilling prophecy, justified by a self-perpetuating system.

The characters have their own lives and their own logic, and you have to act accordingly.

With respect to why some acquired savants are musical, and some are good at the arts, and some are mathematical, why aren't they all the same; I think that has to do with this genetic endowment that all of us have.

The mind is led on, step by step, to defeat its own logic.

The mathematician's best work is art, a high perfect art, as daring as the most secret dreams of imagination, clear and limpid. Mathematical genius and artistic genius touch one another.

Logic only gives man what he needs... Magic gives him what he wants.

In life, particularly in public life, psychology is more powerful than logic.

The fundamental laws necessary for the mathematical treatment of a large part of physics and the whole of chemistry are thus completely known, and the difficulty lies only in the fact that application of these laws leads to equations that are too complex to be solved.

Well, gauge theory is very fundamental to our understanding of physical forces these days. But they are also dependent on a mathematical idea, which has been around for longer than gauge theory has.

Language is a form of human reason, which has its internal logic of which man knows nothing.

When I got to the NBA, I got a Macbook, and the first thing I did was buy Logic.

Victims suggest innocence. And innocence, by the inexorable logic that governs all relational terms, suggests guilt.

Mathematicians create by acts of insights and intuition. Logic then sanctions the conquests of intuition.

In enabling mechanism to combine together general symbols in successions of unlimited variety and extent, a uniting link is established between the operations of matter and the abstract mental processes of the most abstract branch of mathematical science.

I am giving this winter two courses of lectures to three students, of which one is only moderately prepared, the other less than moderately, and the third lacks both preparation and ability. Such are the onera of a mathematical profession.

When I speak of the beauty of a game of chess, then naturally this is subjective. Beauty can be found in a very technical, mathematical game for example. That is the beauty of clarity.

The merit of painting lies in the exactness of reproduction. Painting is a science and all sciences are based on mathematics. No human inquiry can be a science unless it pursues its path through mathematical exposition and demonstration.

Some may study side by side, and yet be asunder when they come to the logic of things.

Every moment of living has its own logic, its own meaning.

The greatest danger in times of turbulence is not the turbulence; it is to act with yesterday's logic.

If the music has a logic of its own - as I think my music has - an open-minded listener will apprehend and understand.