Quotes about Logic

The creational monotheism of the Bible and of the church seems to logically require something like a prehistoric fall, regardless of how we interpret the Chaoskampf material of the Old Testament. Assuming that there is one eternal Creator God who is all-good and all-powerful, it is illogical to posit a foundational structural evil within the cosmos.

Expresses how the Creator solves the problems he needs to solve in order to bring creation out of chaos. Therefore, we have every reason to suppose that the succession of days was not meant to refer to a chronological succession but to a logical, thematic, and literary succession.

Counseling that attempts to logically teach new truth without concern for the emotional threat involved in changing one's approach to meeting personal needs will plow headlong into resistance.

All possible knowledge, then, depends on the validity of reasoning...Unless human reasoning is valid no science can be true.

Making money is a common sense. It's not rocket science. But unfortunately, when it comes to money, common sense is uncommon.

There is no statement so absurd that no philosopher will make it.

I never guess. It is a shocking habit destructive to the logical faculty.

The enemy of knowledge and science is irrationalism, not religion

Physical science is like simple addition: it is either infallible or it is false.

All of science is nothing more than the refinement of everyday thinking.

God is not a hypothesis derived from logical assumptions, but an immediate insight, self-evident as light. He is not something to be sought in the darkness with the light of reason. He is the light.

Lincoln characterized Stephen Douglas's argument as a specious and fantastic arrangement of words, by which a man can prove a horse chestnut to be a chestnut horse.