“As in Geometry, the most natural way of beginning is from a Mathematical point; so is the same method in Observations and Natural history the most genuine, simple, and instructive. We must first endevour to make letters, and draw single strokes true, before we venture to write whole Sentences, or to…”— Robert Hooke, amazon.com
“The ultimate origin of the difficulty lies in the fact (or philosophical principle) that we are compelled to use the words of common language when we wish to describe a phenomenon, not by logical or mathematical analysis, but by a picture appealing to the imagination. Common language has grown by ev…”— Max Born, todayinsci.com
“Minds are useful when we need to conceptualize, plan, theorize. But when we depend on them to guide our inner lives, we're lost.”— Geneen Roth, amazon.com
“Wife: If women ruled the world there would be no wars. Husband: That is true - wars require strategy and logic.”— icp1994, reddit.com
“Be reasonable with the students and make sure they see the logic in what we're doing.”— Deng Xiaoping, amazon.com
“Fear is the enemy of logic. There is no more debilitating, crushing, self-defeating, sickening thing in the world—to an individual or to a nation. If we continue to fear the Russians, and if they continue to fear us, then we’re both in big trouble.”— Frank Sinatra, reprints.longform.org
“Logic will get you nowhere. But imagination has the opportunity to rescue you from the quicksand of logic.”— Stephen Doyle, amazon.com
“The gift of imagination is by no means an exclusive property of the artist; it is a gift we all share; to some degree or other all of us are endowed with the powers of fantasy, the dullest of dullards among us has the gift of dreams at night - visions and yearnings and hopes. Everyone can also think…”— Leonard Bernstein, goodreads.com
“Uncertainty is inherently unsustainable. Eventually, everything either is or isn't.”— Justin Roiland & Dan Harmon, Rick Sanchez, imdb.com
“We are living in an interminable succession of absurdities imposed by the myopic logic of short-term thinking.”— Jacques Cousteau, goodreads.com
“Logic takes care of itself; all we have to do is to look and see how it does it.”— Ludwig Wittgenstein, amazon.com
“Light breaks on secret lots, On tips of thought where thoughts smell in the rain; When logics die, The secret of the soil grows through the eye, And blood jumps in the sun; Above the waste allotments the dawn halts.”— Dylan Thomas, en.wikiquote.org
“This is not a new world—it is simply an extension of what began in the old one. It has patterned itself after every dictator who has ever planted the ripping imprint of a boot on the pages of history since the beginning of time. It has refinements...technological advances...and a more sophisticated…”— Rod Serling, en.wikipedia.org
“steelmanning makes you a better person. It makes you more charitable, forcing you to assume, at least for a moment, that the people you’re arguing with, much as you ferociously disagree with them or even dislike them, are people who might have something to teach you. It makes you more compassionate,…”— Chana Messinger, theatlantic.com
“Trump or no Trump, there is an urgent need for some kind of public education program surrounding truth. Few people leaving school or college have been formally instructed in logic, and there is shockingly little public understanding of how knowledge is created.”— Joe Humphreys, irishtimes.com
“Crime is common. Logic is rare. Therefore it is upon the logic rather than upon the crime that you should dwell.”— Arthur Conan Doyle, amazon.com
“No one is more dangerously insane than one who is sane all the time: he is like a steel bridge without flexibility, and the order of his life is rigid and brittle.”— Alan Watts, amazon.com