Quotes About Mathematical Logic

#1. Russell's books should be bound in two colours, those dealing with mathematical logic in red - and all students of philosophy should read them; those dealing with ethics and politics in blue - and no one should be allowed to read them.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

#2. 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

#3. I think part of the appeal of mathematical logic is that the formulas look mysterious - You write backward Es!

Hilary Putnam

#4. I am allowed to use plain English because everybody knows that I could use mathematical logic if I chose.

Bertrand Russell

#5. Here at Wisconsin we didn't get an undergraduate course in mathematical logic until the '60s.

Stephen Cole Kleene

#6. Only mathematics and mathematical logic can say as little as the physicist means to say.

Bertrand Russell

#7. Much of what I make is geometric, and has a kind of almost mathematical logic to the form.

Anish Kapoor

#8. Virtue and vice are not arbitrary things; but there is a natural and eternal reason for goodness and virtue, and against vice and wickedness.

John Tillotson

#9. We live and learn, or, perhaps more importantly we learn and live.

Terry Pratchett

#10. There has to be a global mission of human progress.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

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

Karl Popper

#12. Sets are fundamental because every mathematical structure,
object or entity can be described as a set. Logic is fundamental because it
allows us to understand the meanings of statements, to deduce information
about mathematical structures and to uncover further structures.

Richard Heath Hammack

#13. It's funny how quickly tomorrow becomes yesterday and then last week and then you run out of time.

Michelle Gable

#14. A society that thinks the choice between ways of living is just a choice between equally eligible 'lifestyles' turns universities into academic cafeterias offering junk food for the mind.

George Will

#15. Taking out werewolves, I gather and surmise, is akin to taking out a SEAL team.

Patricia Briggs

#16. We all want to do the will of God, and we know that there is nothing nearer to His heart than the evangelization of the world.

Oswald J. Smith

#17. Yo mama's so dumb, she put two M&m's in her ears and thought she was listening go Eminen.

Fun Stuff

#18. I think the whole, like, cultural diversity and the arty side of London is really, really great. And how it's so historic as well.

Lily Allen

#19. To understand this for sense it is not required that a man should be a geometrician or a logician, but that he should be mad.

Thomas Hobbes

#20. I'm reteaming with the producers of 'Twilight' on an awesome script. It's very serious, dramatic and different for me. I'm excited to see what's next. I love all aspects of film and all genres.

Taylor Lautner

#21. The fact that all Mathematics is Symbolic Logic is one of the greatest discoveries of our age; and when this fact has been established, the remainder of the principles of mathematics consists of the analysis of Symbolic Logic itself.

Bertrand Russell

#22. Logic is the hygiene the mathematician practices to keep his ideas healthy and strong.

Hermann Weyl

#23. A fist is more than the sum of its fingers.

Margaret Atwood

#24. When I wake up, the other side of the bed is cold.

Suzanne Collins

#25. Dr. Karel Culik is an outstanding applied mathematician, a specialist in algebra, logic, computer sciences and mathematical linguistics. In 1965, he visited the linguistics research program at MIT, and we have worked together on several projects since.

Noam Chomsky

#26. All exact science is dominated by the idea of approximation.

Bertrand Russell

#27. Six is a number perfect in itself, and not because God created the world in six days; rather the contrary is true. God created the world in six days because this number is perfect, and it would remain perfect, even if the work of the six days did not exist.

Saint Augustine

#28. Everybody was sorry. Sorry was easy. Sorry was for suckers.

Gretchen McNeil

#29. Pretty sure we can't call you 'Stiff' anymore, Tris.

Veronica Roth

#30. By a combination of formal training and self study, the latter continuing systematically well into the 1940s, I was able to gain a broad base of knowledge in economics and political science, together with reasonable skills in advanced mathematics, symbolic logic, and mathematical statistics.

Herbert A. Simon

#31. I always believed as a speechwriter that if you could persuade the president to commit himself to certain words, he would feel himself committed to the ideas that underlay those words.

David Frum

#32. No human investigation can claim to be scientific if it doesn't pass the test of mathematical proof.

Leonardo Da Vinci