Plato Quotes

A sane mind should not be guilty of a logical fallacy, yet there are very fine minds incapable of following mathematical demonstrations.

if you do not appreciate the mathematics, you cannot see, among the great variety of facts, that logic permits you to go from one to the other

Mathematical reasoning may be regarded.

The only exercise I excel at is jumping to conclusions.

The knowledge of the theory of logic has no tendency whatever to make men good reasoners.

I have great faith in the intelligence of the American viewer and reader to put two and two together and come up with four.

Mathematics seems to endow one with something like a new sense.

Mathematical Knowledge adds a manly Vigour to the Mind, frees it from Prejudice, Credulity, and Superstition.

I'm a natural puzzle solver.

Mathematics is a language plus reasoning. It's like a language plus logic. Mathematics is a tool for reasoning.

Few of us ever test our powers of deduction, except when filling out an income tax form

Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.

I am not a mathematician, but I was aware that for centuries, mathematics was considered the queen of the sciences because it claimed certainty. It was grounded on some fundamental certainties - axioms - that led to others.

Accuracy of observation is the equivalent of accuracy of thinking.

Chess helps you to concentrate, improve your logic. It teaches you to play by the rules and take responsibility for your actions, how to problem solve in an uncertain environment.

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

Many highly intelligent people are poor thinkers. Many people of average intelligence are skilled thinkers. The power of a car is separate from the way the car is driven.

Bad reasoning as well as good reasoning is possible; and this fact is the foundation of the practical side of logic.

For the things of this world cannot be made known without a knowledge of mathematics.

Rhetoric and dialectics can't change what I have learned from observation and experience.

The higher the voice the smaller the intellect.

Mathematical reasoning may be regarded rather schematically as the exercise of a combination of two facilities, which we may call intuition and ingenuity.

A mathematician is a person who can find analogies between theorems; a better mathematician is one who can see analogies between proofs and the best mathematician can notice analogies between theories.

I finally reached the conclusion that mathematics was the study I was best fitted to follow, though I did not clearly see in what way I should turn the subject to account.

In some parts of life, like mathematics and science, yeah, I was a genius. I would top all the top scores you could ever measure it by.