Logical Quotes - Page 24

• There is no logical impossibility in the hypothesis that the world sprang into being five minutes ago, exactly as it then was, with a population that "remembered" a wholly unreal past. There is no logically necessary connection between events at different times; therefore nothing that is happening now or will happen in the future can disprove the hypothesis that the world began five minutes ago.

  Bertrand Russell

  Past, Atheism, Events

  Bertrand Russell (2016). “The Analysis of Mind”, p.223, Bertrand Russell

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• To explain the unknown by the known is a logical procedure; to explain the known by the unknown is a form of theological lunacy.

  David Brooks

  Atheist, Religion, Atheism

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• Both the physicist and the mystic want to communicate their knowledge, and when they do so with words their statements are paradoxical and full of logical contradictions.

  Fritjof Capra

  Communication, Knowledge, Science

  "The Tao of Physics". Book by Fritjof Capra, 1975.

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• Someone once said that if you sat a million monkeys at a million typewriters for a million years, one of them would eventually type out all of Hamlet by chance. But when we find the text of Hamlet, we don't wonder whether it came from chance and monkeys. Why then does the atheist use that incredibly improbable explanation for the universe? Clearly, because it is his only chance of remaining an atheist. At this point we need a psychological explanation of the atheist rather than a logical explanation of the universe.

  Peter Kreeft

  Atheist, Typewriters, Years

  Peter Kreeft (1988). “Fundamentals of the Faith: Essays in Christian Apologetics”, p.26, Ignatius Press

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• No aphorism is more frequently repeated in connection with field trials, than that we must ask Nature few questions, or, ideally, one question, at a time. The writer is convinced that this view is wholly mistaken. Nature, he suggests, will best respond to a logical and carefully thought out questionnaire; indeed, if we ask her a single question, she will often refuse to answer until some other topic has been discussed.

  Ronald Fisher

  Nature, Science, Views

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• I think, social business is the most logical thing to do. If we had done that, we could reduce all the problems we have.

  Muhammad Yunus

  Thinking, Done, Poverty

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• We [may] answer the question: "Why is snow white?" by saying, "For the same reason that soap-suds or whipped eggs are white"-in other words, instead of giving the reason for a fact, we give another example of the same fact. This offering a similar instance, instead of a reason, has often been criticised as one of the forms of logical depravity in men. But manifestly it is not a perverse act of thought, but only an incomplete one. Furnishing parallel cases is the necessary first step towards abstracting the reason imbedded in them all.

  William James

  Science, Men, Offering

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• I approached the bulk of my schoolwork as a chore rather than an intellectual adventure. The tedium was relieved by a few courses that seem to be qualitatively different. Geometry was the first exciting course I remember. Instead of memorizing facts, we were asked to think in clear, logical steps. Beginning from a few intuitive postulates, far reaching consequences could be derived, and I took immediately to the sport of proving theorems.

  Steven Chu

  Sports, Adventure, Science

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• The theoretical idea ... does not arise apart from and independent of experience; nor can it be derived from experience by a purely logical procedure. It is produced by a creative act. Once a theoretical idea has been acquired, one does well to hold fast to it until it leads to an untenable conclusion.

  Albert Einstein

  Creativity, Independent, Science

  Albert Einstein (1995). “Ideas and Opinions”, Three Rivers Press

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• The philosopher of science is not much interested in the thought processes which lead to scientific discoveries; he looks for a logical analysis of the completed theory, including the establishing its validity. That is, he is not interested in the context of discovery, but in the context of justification.

  Hans Reichenbach

  Philosophy, Science, Discovery

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• The initial stage, the act of conceiving or inventing a theory, seems to me neither to call for logical analysis nor to be susceptible of it.

  Karl Popper

  Science, Analysis, Stage

  Karl Popper (2005). “The Logic of Scientific Discovery”, p.7, Routledge

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• Use your imagination until your big dream feels so familiar that its manifestation is the next logical step.

  Esther Hicks

  Dream, Imagination, Use

  Esther Hicks, Jerry Hicks (2009). “Ask and it is Given: Learning to Manifest Your Desires”, p.158, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Sleep seems to hammer out for me the logical conclusions of my vague days, and offer them to me as dreams.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Dream, Sleep, Reflection

  D. H. Lawrence, James T. Boulton (2002). “The Letters of D. H. Lawrence”, p.359, Cambridge University Press

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• I’m just trying to get people to understand horses. You have to be consistent and logical, use your brain, and not be emotional and not lose your temper.

  Buck Brannaman

  Horse, Emotional, People

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• The adult public's taste is not necessarily ready to accept the logical solutions to their requirements if the solution implies too vast a departure from what they have been conditioned into accepting as the norm.

  Raymond Loewy

  Adults, Departure, Requirements

  Raymond Loewy (2002). “Never Leave Well Enough Alone”, p.278, JHU Press

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• Writing is the process of asking the next logical question.

  J. Michael Straczynski

  Writing, Asking, Next

  "From 'Moloch' To 'Superman Earth One Vol. 2': The J. Michael Straczynski Interview". Interview with Valerie Gallaher, www.mtv.com. November 12, 2012.

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• Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody can read.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Book, Censorship, Ends

  "Literary Censorship in England". Current Opinion, Volume 55, No. 5 (p. 378), November 1913.

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• I had always intended to make a living out of playing blues. But I never admitted it to myself. I don't suppose I could have given a logical reason for it ever becoming possible to do so.

  Alexis Korner

  Becoming, Reason, Given

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• Why are we deforesting for pulp and paper when we have a logical and efficient solution in plants like kenaf or bamboo? It doesn't make sense to me at all.

  Ian Somerhalder

  Paper, Bamboo, Plant

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• There’s a virtuous cycle when people have to defend challenges to their ideas. Any gaps in thinking or analysis become clear pretty quickly when smart people ask good, logical questions. You can’t be a good value investor without being an independent thinker – you’re seeing valuations that the market is not appreciating. But it’s critical that you understand why the market isn’t seeing the value you do. The back and forth that goes on in the investment process helps you get at that.

  Joel Greenblatt

  Smart, Independent, Thinking

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• The purpose of concept art as a genre is to unbrainwash our mathematical and logical faculties.

  Henry Flynt

  Art, Genre Is, Purpose

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• A sane mind should not be guilty of a logical fallacy, yet there are very fine minds incapable of following mathematical demonstrations.

  Henri Poincare

  Mind, Guilty, Should

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• Change is vital, improvement the logical form of change.

  James Cash Penney

  Life, Change, Improvement

  James Cash Penney (1950). “Fifty Years with the Golden Rule”

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• Horses are consistent and logical. The horse will do what is easiest for him. If you make it easy for him to buck you off, kick you, and run away, that’s just what he’s going to do. And more power to him. But if you make it easy for the horse to be relaxed and calm and accurate — and also have it be a beautiful dance between you and the horse — it won’t be too long before he’ll be hunting for that just as hard as you are. Whatever you make easy for the horse, that’s what he’s going to get good at.

  Buck Brannaman

  Beautiful, Running, Horse

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• The simple question 'What color do you want to paint that upstairs room?' might, if we follow things to their logical conclusions, be stated: 'How do I live, knowing that I will one day die and leave you?

  Donald Antrim

  Simple, Color, Knowing

  Donald Antrim (2011). “The Verificationist: A Novel”, p.11, Macmillan

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