Logical Conclusions Quotes

Scientific theory is a contrived foothold in the chaos of living phenomena.

Science is true, whether you believe it or not.

We should follow the facts wherever they lead us.

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

I believe politicians should always remain realistic.

As a scientist, you're not supposed to make decisions without the data.

I'm not religious, I'm not romantic and I live purely by logic. I make every decision by logic and sometimes that leads me to the right and sometimes to the wrong decision.

The logical process will often be the safe one. I tend, when I'm given that choice, to go the way that's not safe.

Reason we call that faculty innate in us of discovering laws and applying them with thought.

Whenever known and sufficient causes are available, it is anti-scientific to discard them in favour of a hypothesis that can never be verified.

I am turned into a sort of machine for observing facts and grinding out conclusions.

Once the last trace of emotion has been eradicated, nothing remains of thought but absolute tautology.

I’m always looking for the monster. Not even just in horror. I want them in everything. Just give me the monsters. Logical conclusions don’t satisfy. Monsters satisfy, absolutely.

A theoretical system does not merely state facts which have been observed and that logically deducible relations to other facts which have also been observed.

The key to good worldbuilding is leaving out most of what you create. You, as the author, had damn well better know the where all that dragon food comes from, but that doesn't mean that I, as a reader, want to read a five thousand word essay about you explaining it to me. I don't need to see the math, but I can tell by the details you provide whether or not you've thought these things through to their logical conclusions.

The being cannot be termed rational or virtuous, who obeys any authority, but that of reason.

Juries must, of necessity, be governed, in reaching many results through inferences from other facts, by certain laws of nature and human reason. They are often obliged to infer one thing from another, and this, whether that other be a fact direct or circumstantial.

I was always attracted to taking a novel position, but one grounded in the materials I'd been given, not made up out of whole cloth.

If an idea is indeed sensible, it will eventually become just part of the accepted wisdom.

Everything in a story should be credible.

Every fundamental law has exceptions. But you still need the law or else all you have is observations that don't make sense. And that's not science. That's just taking notes.

Sleep seems to hammer out for me the logical conclusions of my vague days, and offer them to me as dreams.

Our best theories are not only truer than common sense, they make more sense than common sense.

We have to learn again that science without contact with experiments is an enterprise which is likely to go completely astray into imaginary conjecture.

The method of exposition which philosophers have adopted leads many to suppose that they are simply inquiries, that they have no interest in the conclusions at which they arrive, and that their primary concern is to follow their premises to their logical conclusions.