Source: Soul Mountain (1989), ch. 8, p. 50
“Anything that thinks logically can be fooled by something else that thinks at least as logically as it does.”
Source: The Hitchhiker's Trilogy
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Source: Language, Truth, and Logic (1936), p. 77.
Context: The principles of logic and mathematics are true simply because we never allow them to be anything else. And the reason for this is that we cannot abandon them without contradicting ourselves, without sinning against the rules which govern the use of language, and so making our utterances self-stultifying. In other words, the truths of logic and mathematics are analytic propositions or tautologies.
“No, no, you are not thinking, you are just being logical.”
Niels Bohr
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John Von Neumann
(1903–1957) Hungarian-American mathematician and polymath
As quoted in Bigeometric Calculus: A System with a Scale-Free Derivative (1983) by Michael Grossman, and in Single Variable Calculus (1994) by James Stewart.
“It's a fool that looks for logic in the chambers of the human heart.”
Joel Coen
(1954) American film director, screenwriter, producer, cinematographer and editor
Source: O Brother, Where Art Thou?