100 Years of Mathematics: a Personal Viewpoint (1981)
“Logic has borrowed, perhaps, the rules of geometry, without comprehending their force”
The Art of Persuasion
Context: Logic has borrowed, perhaps, the rules of geometry, without comprehending their force... it does not thence follow that they have entered into the spirit of geometry, and I should be greatly averse... to placing them on a level with that science that teaches the true method of directing reason.
Six Precepts of Tilopa, quoted in A.S. Kline's Like Water or Clouds - The T’ang Dynasty and the Tao (1947)
“There is no smoke without fire, and there is no ethically repugnant principle without logic.”
How to murder a Bolivian boy http://www.newcriterion.com/archive/19/jun01/daniels.htm (June 2001).
New Criterion (2000 - 2005)
Source: Mathematics: Queen and Servant of Science (1938), p. 226
Context: Some of his deepest discoveries were reasoned out verbally with very few if any symbols, and those for the most part mere abbreviations of words. Any impatient student of mathematics or science or engineering who is irked by having algebraic symbolism thrust on him should try to get on without it for a week.
“Without mathematics, we are blind.”
Original French: Hors les mathématiques, nous sommes aveugles.
From Court traité d'ontologie transitoire. Paris: Éditions du Seuil, 1998. ISBN 2020348853.
2.4, "Discrete Mathematics and the Notion of Infinity", p. 45
The Forgotten Revolution: How Science Was Born in 300 BC and Why It Had to Be Reborn (2004)
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 580.
2003-10-20
Mommie Dearest
Slate
1091-2339
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/fighting_words/2003/10/mommie_dearest.html, quoted in Michael Shermer, "The Skeptic's Skeptic," Scientific American, November 2010, p. 86.
February/March
http://secularhumanism.org/library/fi/hitchens_24_2.html
Less than Miraculous
Free Inquiry
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"What can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence." appears by itself in God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything (2007).
Translation of the Latin phrase "Quod gratis asseritur, gratis negatur.".
2000s, 2003
Variant: "What can be asserted without proof can be dismissed without proof." in * 2004
“Logic is figure without a ground. (p. 241)”
1990s and beyond, The Book of Probes : Marshall McLuhan (2011)
