logic Quotes

Every man prefers belief to the exercise of judgment.

All abstract sciences are nothing but the study of relations between signs.

I like plays where people talk a lot. Conversation is sustained. Argument is sustained.

I'm not that taken with Freudian perspectives. They seem to be overcomplicated.

But reason always cuts a poor figure beside sentiment; the one being essentially restricted, like everything that is positive, while the other is infinite.

Any time scientists disagree, it's because we have insufficient data. Then we can agree on what kind of data to get; we get the data; and the data solves the problem. Either I'm right, or you're right, or we're both wrong. And we move on. That kind of conflict resolution does not exist in politics or religion.

Science is basically an inoculation against charlatans.

I never got into 'Star Wars.' Maybe because they made no attempt to portray real physics. At all.

There is no example of someone reading their scripture and saying, 'I have a prediction about the world that no one knows yet, because this gave me insight. Let's go test that prediction,' and have the prediction be correct.

In science, we must be interested in things, not in persons.