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Logic
- A good notation has a subtlety and suggestiveness which at times make it seem almost like a live teacher... ~ Bertrand Russell
- ... all traits of reality worthy of the name can be set down in an idiom of this form if in any idiom. ~ Willard van Orman Quine
- If the world were a logical place, men would ride side saddle. ~ Rita Mae Brown
- Logic hasn't wholly dispelled the society of witches and prophets and sorcerers and soothsayers. ~ Raymond F. Jones in The Non-Statistical Man
- Logic is a large drawer, containing some useful instruments, and many more that are superfluous. A wise man will look into it for two purposes, to avail himself of those instruments that are really useful, and to admire the ingenuity with which those that are not so, are assorted and arranged. ~ Charles Caleb Colton, Lacon
- Logic is logic. That's all I say. ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes in The One-Hoss Shay
- Logic is neither a science nor an art, but a dodge. ~ Benjamin Jowett
- Logic is one thing and commonsense another. ~ Elbert Hubbard in The Note Book (1927)
- Logic, like whiskey, loses its beneficial effect when taken in too large quantities. ~ Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett Dunsany in "Weeds & Moss" from My Ireland
- Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding. ~ Ambrose Bierce
- Metaphysics may be, after all, only the art of being sure of something that is not so, and logic only the art of going wrong with confidence. ~ Joseph Wood Krutch in The Modern Temper (1929)
- No, no, you're not thinking; you're just being logical. ~ Niels Bohr
- Pure logic is the ruin of the spirit. ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Flight to Arras (1942) as translated by Lewis Galantière
- Roughly speaking: to say of two things that they are identical is nonsense, and to say of one thing that it is identical with itself is to say nothing. ~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
- The ultimate goal of logic is to show nothing can be proved. ~ Anonymous
- These, briefly, are the key elements of the stereotype: logic cripples and constrains; it forces one into narrow and mechanical modes of thought that cut one off from a vast range of superior thoughts, feelings and perceptions; logic is an enemy of wit and humor (Mr. Spock's face was always an impassive mask); logic makes us dull and pedantic (Mr. Spock always spoke in a monotone); logic presupposes a simple-minded, black-and-white, yes-no conception of the world. ... Logic misses the point of half the things we ordinarily say and cannot match the insight of the humblest person's common sense. ~ John M. Dolan in Inference and Imagination
- Logic and mathematics seem to be the only domains where self-evidence manages to rise above triviality; and this it does, in those domains, by a linking of self-evidence on to self-evidence in the chain reaction known as proof. ~ Willard van Orman Quine in The Web of Belief
- "Logic is a careful, serious, systematic method of coming to the wrong conclusion with absolute confidence." --Unknown
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