Quotes About Math And Logic

#1. Al-Qaeda's resurgence brings out the worst in the Bush Administration's math and logic.

Jon Stewart

#2. I never have heard somebody talking about games which are educationable or with logic like chess for example. Nobody watch it from the people which watch football and are good at math. Why they don't do it??

Deyth Banger

#3. Logic is invincible, because in order to combat logic it is necessary to use logic.

Pierre Boutroux

#4. As a teacher, Tengo pounded into his students' heads how voraciously mathematics demanded logic. Here things that could not be proven had no meaning, but once you had succeeded in proving something, the world's riddles settled into the palm of your hand like a tender oyster.

Haruki Murakami

#5. So I don't get if "Math" means this to Repeat, what does this help us in the near future??
Just showing us how to be slaves??
Slaves - Repeat!

Deyth Banger

#6. In my experience most mathematicians are intellectually lazy.

Francis Crick

#7. It doesn't include math or logic, nor does it address issues of judgment, such as aesthetics or morality. Science has a simple goal: to figure out what the world actually is. Not all the possible ways it could be, nor the particular way it should be. Just what it is. There's

Sean Carroll

#8. There are no solved problems; there are only problems that are more or less solved.

Henri Poincare

#9. Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.

Francis Bacon

#10. It is all about numbers. It is all about sequence. It's the mathematical logic of being alive. If everything kept to its normal progression, we would live with the sadness
cry and then walk
but what really breaks us cleanest are the losses that happen out of order.

Aimee Bender

#11. He who cannot describe the problem will never find the solution to that problem.

Confucius

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

Deepak Chopra

#13. I never thought that others would take my theories so much more seriously than I did.

Albert Einstein

#14. The advantage is that mathematics is a field in which one's blunders tend to show very clearly and can be corrected or erased with a stroke of the pencil.

Norbert Wiener

#15. We never know what we are talking about.

Karl Popper

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

George Polya

#17. Perhaps the most surprising thing about mathematics is that it is so surprising.

Edward Charles Titchmarsh

#18. In life two negatives don't make a positive. Double negatives turn positive only in math and formal logic. In life things just get worse and worse and worse.

Robert McKee

#19. Man discovers truth by reason only, not by faith.

Leo Tolstoy

#20. Most likely, logic is capable of justifying mathematics to no greater extent than biology is capable of justifying life.

Yuri Manin

#21. When intuition and logic agree, you are always right.

Blaise Pascal

#22. If scientific reasoning were limited to the logical processes of arithmetic, we should not get very far in our understanding of the physical world. One might as well attempt to grasp the game of poker entirely by the use of the mathematics of probability.

Vannevar Bush

#23. Monty Jones: Dad, is there a word to describe answers that are completely correct but entirely useless under the circumstances?
Professor Jones: Yes, yes there is.

David Morgan-Mar

#24. Science attempts to find logic and simplicity in nature. Mathematics attempts to establish order and simplicity in human thought.

Edward Teller

#25. I loved logic, math, computer programming. I loved systems and logic approaches. And so I just figured architecture is this perfect combination.

Maya Lin

#26. If one were to refuse to have direct, geometric, intuitive insights, if one were reduced to pure logic, which does not permit a choice among every thing that is exact, one would hardly think of many questions, and certain notions ... would escape us completely.

Henri Lebesgue

#27. The best defense against logic is ignorance.

Blaise Pascal

#28. Logic is the anatomy of thought.

John Locke

#29. Logic issues in tautologies, mathematics in identities, philosophy in definitions; all trivial, but all part of the vital work of clarifying and organising our thought.

Frank Plumpton Ramsey

#30. Logic, it is often said, is the study of valid arguments. It is a systematic attempt to distinguish valid arguments from invalid arguments.

W.H. Newton-Smith

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

Morris Kline

#32. Logic is rare!
What's the purpose of it and even studying math getting higher results and after all outside nobody uses it?

Deyth Banger

#33. My mother was an economics professor. I'm proficient in math, and statistics, game theory, symbolic logic and all of that.

Dave Hickey

#34. Mathematics had never had more than a secondary interest for him [her husband, George Boole]; and even logic he cared for chiefly as a means of clearing the ground of doctrines imagined to be proved, by showing that the evidence on which they were supposed to give rest had no tendency to prove them.

Mary Everest Boole