If language had been the creation not of poetry but of logic, we should only have one.
Now you see, Dr. Stadler, you're speaking as if this book were addressing to a thinking audience. If it were, one would have to be concerned with such matters as accuracy, validity, logic and the prestige of science. But it isn't. It's addressed to the public.
Logic can take you from point A to point B. Imagination can take you wherever you want
The peasants have seen the future - Greece and France - and concluded that it does not work. Hence their opposition to Obama's proudly transformational New Foundation agenda. Their logic is impeccable: Only the most blinkered intellectual could be attempting to introduce social democracy to America precisely when the world's foremost exemplar of that model - Europe - is in chaotic meltdown.
Logic invents as many fallacies as it detects; it is a good weapon, but as liable to be used in a bad as in a good cause.
If the logic of capitalism is "expand or die," then either it has to die or the world has to die.
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.
A régime [Nazism] which invented a biological foreign policy was obviously acting against its own best interests. But at least it obeyed its own particular logic.
The heart is a strange beast and not ruled by logic.
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 everyday observation.
Perhaps there really are managers who can outperform the market consistently - logic would suggest that they exist. But they are remarkably well-hidden.
Feeling insignificant because the universe is large has exactly the same logic as feeling inadequate for not being a cow.
Mathematics is a language plus reasoning. It's like a language plus logic. Mathematics is a tool for reasoning.
[Aristotle formal logic thus far (1787)] has not been able to advance a single step, and hence is to all appearances closed and completed.
There can be no question of masking the evidence, of suppressing the absurd by denying one of the terms of its equation. It is essential to know whether one can live with it or whether, on the other hand, logic commands one to die of it.
When introduced at the wrong time or place, good logic may be the worst enemy of good teaching.
We live in a world with huge repositories of logic and even greater such of information-but, alas, so little wisdom.
Logic is a wonderful thing but doesn't always beat actual thought.
May the culture of life and love render vain the logic of death.
But however measurable, there is much more life in music than mathematics or logic ever dreamed of.