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"The sciences do not try to explain, they hardly even try to interpret, they mainly make models. By a model is meant a mathematical construct which, with the addition of certain verbal interpretations, describes observed phenomena. The justification of such a mathematical construct is solely and precisely that it is expected to work." »John Von Neumann
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"Every attempt to employ mathematical methods in the study of chemical questions must be considered profoundly irrational and contrary to the spirit of chemistry... If mathematical analysis should ever had prominent place in chemistry - an aberration, which is happily almost impossible - it would be a rapid and widespread degeneration of that science." »Auguste Comte, Philosophie Positive (1830)
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"I hope you become confortable with the use of logic wihout being deceived into concluding that logic will inevitably lead you to the correct conclusion." »Neil Armstrong, USC 2005 graduation
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"Grammar and logic free language from being at the mercy of the tone of voice. Grammar protects us against misunderstanding the sound of an uttered name; logic protects us against what we say have double meaning." »Rosenstock-Huessy
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"Drama is imagination limited by logic. Mathematics is logic limited by imagination." »Nathan Campbell
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"God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically." »Albert Einstein
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"As for everything else, so for mathematical theory: beauty can be perceived but not explained." »Arthur Cayley
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"A technique succeeds in mathematical physics, not by a clever trick, or a happy accident, but because it expresses some aspect of a physical truth." »O.G. Sutton
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"logic is in the eye of the logician." »Gloria Steinem
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"Against logic there is no armor like ignorance." »Laurence J. Peter
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"The life of the law has not been logic but experience." »Oliver Wendell Holmes
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"The Greeks invented logic but were not fooled by it." »Eric Hoffer
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"logic merely enables one to be wrong with authority." »Doctor Who
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"logic is like the sword--those who appeal to it shall perish by it." »Samuel Butler
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"logic is like the sword: those who appeal to it shall perish by it." »Samuel Butler
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"You can only find truth with logic if you have already found it without it." »Gilbert Keith Chesterton
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"By mistreating the source of all logic we can enforce shortcuts.
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"The heart has arguments with which the logic of mind is not aquainted." »Blaise Pascal
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"A page of history is worth a pound of logic." »Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
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"Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtaxed." »Oliver Wendell Holmes
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"And when the future hinges on the next words that are said, Don't let logic interfere, believe your heart instead." »Philip Robinson
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"If you want to be shot down by the Arrows of Eros, you should get rid of the iron shield called Logic!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"That orgy of wishful thinking that has passed for logic in the present century." »F.W. Lawvere
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"The mere formulation of a problem is far more essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter of mathematical or experimental skills. To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle requires creative imagination and marks real advances in science." »Albert Einstein
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"We live in a Newtonian world of Einsteinian physics ruled by Frankenstein logic." »David Russell
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"I just have this feeling if I take pi, well past all this static, take pi to 10 million, 20 million digits, that I'll find something really incredible. Not just a pattern, not just an order, but a sign. A mathematical sign." »Andrew Schneider
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"Yes, we have to divide up our time like that, between our politics and our equations. But to me our equations are far more important, for politics are only a matter of present concern. A mathematical equation stands forever." »Albert Einstein
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"I will not go so far as to say that to construct a history of thought without profound study of the mathematical ideas of successive epochs is like omitting Hamlet from the play which is named after him. . . But it is certainly analogous to cutting out the part of Ophelia. This simile is singularly exact. For Ophelia is quite essential to the play, she is very charming-- and a little mad." »Alfred North Whitehead
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"The beauty of religious mania is that it has the power to explain everything. Once God (or Satan) is accepted as the first cause of everything which happens in the mortal world, nothing is left to chance... logic can be happily tossed out the window." »Stephen King
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"Histories make men wise poets, witty the mathematics, subtle natural philosophy, deep moral, grave logic and rhetoric, able to contend." »Francis Bacon
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