Mathematical Logic Quotes

The whole is more than the sum of its parts. ~ Aristotle.

The world is more than the sum of its suffering. ~ Deepak Chopra

Sapiens don't behave according to a cold mathematical logic, but rather according to a warm social logic. We are ruled by emotions. ~ Yuval Noah Harari

What seems certain is that Pythagoras developed the idea of mathematical logic ... He realized that numbers exist independently of the tangible world and therefore their study was untainted by inaccuracies of perception. This meant he could discover truths which were independent of opinion of prejudice and which were more absolute then any previous knowledge. ~ Simon Singh

It would be better for the true physics if there were no mathematicians on earth. ~ Daniel Bernoulli

Here at Wisconsin we didn't get an undergraduate course in mathematical logic until the '60s. ~ Stephen Cole Kleene

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

There are three kinds of people: those that are immovable, those that are movable, and those who move. ~ Benjamin Franklin

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

Logic is invincible, because in order to combat logic it is necessary to use logic. ~ Pierre Boutroux

Only mathematics and mathematical logic can say as little as the physicist means to say. ~ Bertrand Russell

We used to think that if we knew one, we knew two, because one and one are two. We are finding that we must learn a great deal more about 'and. ~ Arthur Stanley Eddington

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

I am allowed to use plain English because everybody knows that I could use mathematical logic if I chose. ~ Bertrand Russell

I had a feeling once about Mathematics - that I saw it all. Depth beyond depth was revealed to me - the Byss and Abyss. I saw - as one might see the transit of Venus or even the Lord Mayor's Show - a quantity passing through infinity and changing its sign from plus to minus. I saw exactly why it happened and why the tergiversation was inevitable but it was after dinner and I let it go. ~ Winston S. Churchill

Nature already uses the language of mathematics, so why not work with the environment instead of against it. We need to start mimicking the mathematical logic that occurs in the landscape, identify existing systems, and out of those concepts create new ones. ~ Yafreisy Carrero

I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning. ~ Plato

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

What is this film (Mirror) about?It is about a Man. No, not the particular man whose voice we hear from behind the screen, played by Innokentiy Smoktunovsky. It's a film about you, your father, your grandfather, about someone who will live after you and who is still "you". About a Man who lives on the earth, is a part of the earth and the earth is a part of him, about the fact that a man is answerable for his life both to the past and to the future. You have to watch this film simply, and listen to the music of Bach and the poems of Arseniy Tarkovsky; watch it as one watches the stars, or the sea, as one admires a landscape. There is no mathematical logic here, for it cannot explain what man is or what is the meaning of his life. (Sculpting in Time) ~ Andrey Tarkovsky

Il n'est pas certain que tout soit incertain.
(Translation: It is not certain that everything is uncertain.) ~ Blaise Pascal

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

Intuition is a capacity of our heart. Our heart is the door to allowing Existence to guide us, instead of being directed by our ideas, desires and expectations. Since the days of Aristotle's, we have been taught that logic is the only way to reach a solution. But while logic works in a step-by-step-process to reach a solution, intuition simply takes a quantum leap to a solution without any intermediate steps. ~ Swami Dhyan Giten

As we have seen with reference to the experiences of Gauss and Poincare, the mathematicians also discovered the fact that our representations are "ordered" before we become aware of them. B.L. van der Waerden, who cites many examples of essential mathematical insights arising from the unconscious, concludes: " ... the unconscious is not only able to associate and combine, but even to judge. The judgment of the unconscious is an intuitive one, but it is under favorable circumstances completely sure. ~ C. G. Jung

Numbers written on restaurant checks within the confines of restaurants do not follow the same mathematical laws as numbers written on any other pieces of paper in any other parts of the Universe. ~ Douglas Adams

You are the mathematical and geometrical centre of all the universe, where the centre is you, and radius goes into the infinity. ~ Count Stefan Colonna Walewski

There's a kind of gap between what I think is real and what's really real , I get this feeling like some kind of little something other is there somewhere inside me ... ..like a burglar is in the house hiding in a closet ... and it comes out every once in a while and messes up whatever order or logic I've established the way a magnet can make a machine go crazy ~ Haruki Murakami

I'm an old-fashioned guy. I believe in the Enlightenment, and reason, and logic, and you know, facts. ~ Barack Obama

Elegance; it lacks the intellect -
he is not a dancer who dances to the beat of love - on the other hand, the heart, can not solve mathematical problems. ~ Kristian Goldmund Aumann

Any schemes - such as 'think of symmetry laws', or 'put the information in mathematical form', or 'guess equations'- are known to everybody now, and they are all tried all the time. When you are stuck, the answer cannot be one of these, because you will have tried these right away ... The next scheme, the new discovery, is going to be made in a completely different way. ~ Richard P. Feynman

Take my advice, gadjo ... never argue with a woman when she's in this state. Tell her you were wrong and you're sorry as hell. And promise never to do it again." "I'm still not exactly certain what I did," Harry said. "That doesn't matter. Apologize anyway." Merripen paused and added in a whisper, "And whenever your wife is angry ... for God's sake, don't try logic." "I heard that," Win said from the chaise. ~ Lisa Kleypas

Logic is a feeble reed, friend. "Logic" proved that airplanes can't fly and that H-bombs won't work and that stones don't fall out of the sky. Logic is a way of saying that anything which didn't happen yesterday won't happen tomorrow. ~ Robert A. Heinlein

The cruciform does not like pain. Nor do I but, like the cruciform, I am willing to use it to serve my purposes. And I will do so consciously, not instinctively like the mindless mass of alien tissue embedded in me. This thing only seeks a mindless avoidance of death by any means. I do not wish to die, but I welcome pain and death rather than an eternity of mindless life. Life is sacred--I still hold to that as a core element of the Church's though and teachings these past twenty-eight hundred years when life has been so cheap--but even more sacred is the soul.
I realize now that what I was trying to do with the Armaghast data was offer the Church not a rebirth but only a transition to a false life such as these poor walking corpses inhabit. If the Church is meant to die, it must do so--but do so gloriously, in the full knowledge of its rebirth in Christ. It must go into the darkness not willingly but well--bravely and firm of faith--like the millions who have gone before us, keeping faith with all those generations facing death in the isolated silence of death camps and nuclear fireballs and cancer wards and pogroms, going into the darkness, if not hopefully, then prayerful that there is some reason for it all, something worth the price of all that pain, all those sacrifices., All those before us have gone into the darkness without assurance of logic or fact or persuasive theory, with only a slender thread of hope or the all too shakable conviction of faith. And if the ~ Dan Simmons

Where logic reaches, religion leaves. ~ M.F. Moonzajer

Twentieth-century British mathematician G.H. Hardy also believed that the human function is to "discover or observe" mathematics rather than to invent it. In other words, the abstract landscape of mathematics was there, waiting for mathematical explorers to reveal it. ~ Mario Livio

Science is not about making predictions or performing experiments. Science is about explaining. ~ Bill Gaede

Mathematical thinking is abstract, but it's also thoroughly private-sector and results-oriented. ~ David Foster Wallace

China has consistently surprised us. When I returned from the United States many years ago, it was unimaginable that we would end up where we are now. What China has achieved defies all logic. I credit this to the hard work and enterprising spirit of the Chinese people. ~ Zhang Xin

The plant never lapses into mere arid functionalism; it fashions and shapes according to logic and suitability, and with its primeval force compels everything to attain the highest artistic form. ~ Karl Blossfeldt

It seemed to them dreadfully dangerous to put it into words like that, for lately the things they didn't want to happen were the things that happened and the logic of this was that if you pretended not to want what you really wanted dreadfully you would be more likely to get it. ~ Elizabeth Goudge

The so-called law of induction cannot possibly be a law of logic, since it is obviously a proposition with a sense.
Nor, therefore, can it be an a priori law. ~ Ludwig Wittgenstein

I went out into the corridor. I asked a nurse if she knew where the people with arthritis went. She said lots of them went to Ward 34 on the top floor. She said she thought that was a silly place to put people with bad bones who had such trouble walking and climbing stairs. ~ David Almond

Some things are governed by common sense. Putting buttons on the front of a shirt is a matter of logic, since it would be very difficult to button them up at the side, and impossible if they were at the back.
Other things, however, become fixed because more and more people believe that's the way they should be. I'll give you two examples. Have you ever wondered why the keys on a typewriter are arranged in that particular order? ~ Paulo Coelho

It seems perfectly clear that Economy, if it is to be a science at all, must be a mathematical science. There exists much prejudice against attempts to introduce the methods and language of mathematics into any branch of the moral sciences. Most persons appear to hold that the physical sciences form the proper sphere of mathematical method, and that the moral sciences demand some other method-I know not what. ~ William Stanley Jevons

We are in the realm not of logic but of wistfulness, and I must maintain that wistfulness is a respectable, serious condition. How, otherwise, to account for much of one's life? ~ Joseph O'Neill

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

Women tended to be more docile and patient, so went the belief, and could be depended upon more than men to check and recheck the accuracy of their calculations. A typical picture of the Galton Biometrical Laboratory under Karl Pearson would have Pearson and several men walking around, looking at output from the computers or discussing deep mathematical ideas, while all about them rows of women were computing. ~ David Salsburg

Even if one gives up the concept of God, there are quite a few recognized immaterial things that one has to struggle with. Things such as thought, truth, logic, morality, purpose, and justice become a real problem if the universe is simply material. One could say that these things are imaginary, but then they would have to explain the immaterial construct of imagination. ~ Joel Furches

Our ego seeks to understand everything. It wants all the answers. Part of what destroys the ego and connects us with the light is doing things that absolutely don't make any sense. If we want something beyond logic, like a miracle, we have to do something that is beyond logic. ~ Yehuda Berg

Search his car for the bomb! He's got a logic bomb! ~ Kevin D. Mitnick

Morality, a muzzle for the will; logic, a climbing iron for the mind. ~ Franz Grillparzer

Physical laws are ruled by logic, and are ungovernable: so when the die comes to rest on its edge, it owes neither apology nor account. ~ John Hadac

He likes things that make sense, and this word explains everything he knows about me. It makes perfect sense. Unless you don't know me, in which case it's delusional, irrational, and absurd. ~ Augusten Burroughs

[The decay of Logic results from an] untroubled assumption that the particular is real and the universal is not. ~ C.S. Lewis

Heart language is logic set on fire. ~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

I make spaces that are calm rather than confrontational. I seek a certain kind of logic that allows you to move in space and perceive it as beautiful and rational. Clarity is a worthwhile quality. ~ Annabelle Selldorf

In fact, Gentlemen, no geometry without arithmetic, no mechanics without geometry ... you cannot count upon success, if your mind is not sufficiently exercised on the forms and demonstrations of geometry, on the theories and calculations of arithmetic ... In a word, the theory of proportions is for industrial teaching, what algebra is for the most elevated mathematical teaching. ~ Jean-Victor Poncelet

People are like a mathematical puzzle. If you don't know them, they seem difficult. However, once you understand them, they are a game. If you understand a person completely, you can deal with him as simply as you deal with yourself. If you know the nature of fire, you will not burn your fingers in it. Instead, you would use it for cooking your food. ~ Awdhesh Singh

I am a plain practical man, not one of your theorists and splitters of hairs and choppers of logic. ~ James G. Frazer

The logic of a madman is a sane man's confusion. ~ Joe R. Lansdale

Much of my work in this period was concerned with exploring the logic of economic models, but also with attempting to reconcile the models with every day observation. ~ Joseph Stiglitz

Philosophy is written in this all-encompassing book that is constantly open to our eyes, that is the universe; but it cannot be understood unless one first learns to understand the language and knows the characters in which it is written. It is written in mathematical language, and its characters are triangles, circles, and other geometrical figures; without these it is humanly impossible to understand a word of it, and one wanders in a dark labyrinth. ~ Galileo Galilei

Each experience of love nudges us toward the Story of Interbeing, because it only fits into that story and defies the logic of Separation. ~ Charles Eisenstein