Logic Quotes

Logic will get you from A to Z; imagination will get you everywhere.

Invention is not the product of logical thought, even though the final product is tied to a logical structure.

The logic of the world is prior to all truth and falsehood.[Die Logik der Welt ist aller Wahr- und Falschheit primär.]

The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.

Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.

Logic takes care of itself; all we have to do is to look and see how it does it.[Die Logik sorgt für sich selbst; wir müssen ihr nur zusehen, wie sie es macht.]

If you use a trick in logic, whom can you be tricking other than yourself?[Wenn man in der Logik einen Trick anwendet, wen kann man tricken, außer sich selbst?]

If a gag interfered with the logic of events, no matter how funny it was, I would not use it.

I know that two and two make four – and should be glad to prove it too if I could – though I must say if by any sort of process I could convert 2 and 2 into five it would give me much greater pleasure.

A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that’s unlocked and opens inwards; as long as it does not occur to him to pull rather than push it.[Ein Mensch ist in einem Zimmer gefangen, wenn die Tür unversperrt ist, sich nach innen öffnet; er aber nicht auf die Idee kommt zu ziehen, statt gegen sie zu drücken.]