logic Quotes

Just as I wouldn't expect a gynecologist to have a debate with somebody who believes in the Stork-theory of reproduction, I won't do debates with Young Earth creationists.

There is something cheap about magic that works just because it is magic.

There's clearly a lot of Ludditism, and you see it in all the hysteria about every scientific story.

If ever there was a slamming of the door in the face of constructive investigation, it is the word miracle. To a medieval peasant, a radio would have seemed like a miracle.

There are many very educated people who are religious, but they're not creationists.

A good theory explains a lot but postulates little.

The pendulum of the mind alternates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.

We are too much accustomed to attribute to a single cause that which is the product of several, and the majority of our controversies come from that.

Today's scientists have substituted mathematics for experiments, and they wander off through equation after equation, and eventually build a structure which has no relation to reality.

Politics is a science. You can demonstrate that you are right and that others are wrong.