Bertrand Russell Quotes about Logic

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Formality Thus the absence of all mention of particular things or properties in logic or pure mathematics is a necessary result of the fact that this study is, as we say, purely formal.

Formality Thus the absence of all mention of particular things or properties in logic or pure mathematics is a necessary result of the fact that this study is, as we say, "purely formal".

Bertrand Russell

Facts, Logic, Study

The rules of logic are to mathematics what those of structure are to architecture.

Bertrand Russell

Logic, Architecture, Mathematics

Bertrand Russell (2016). “Mysticism and Logic”, p.95, Bertrand Russell

Common sense, however it tries, cannot avoid being surprised from time to time.

Bertrand Russell

Common Sense, Trying, Logic

All traditional logic habitually assumes that precise symbols are being employed. It is therefore not applicable to this terrestial life but only to an imagined celestial existence... logic takes us nearer to heaven than other studies.

Bertrand Russell

Heaven, Logic, Study

Logic must no more admit a unicorn than zoology can.

Bertrand Russell

Unicorn, Logic, Zoology

Bertrand Russell (2007). “Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy”, p.169, Spokesman Books

The conception of the necessary unit of all that is resolves itself into the poverty of the imagination, and a freer logic emancipates us from the straitwaistcoated benevolent institution, which idealism palms off as the totality of being.

Bertrand Russell

Imagination, Poverty, Logic

"Our Knowledge of the External World". Book by Bertrand Russell, p. 9, 1914.

Inferences of Science and Common Sense differ from those of deductive logic and mathematics in a very important respect, namely, when the premises are true and the reasoning correct, the conclusion is only probable.

Bertrand Russell

Common Sense, Important, Logic

Bertrand Russell Quotes about Logic

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