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Logic Quotes - Page 2

Errors using inadequate data are much less than those using no data at all.

Errors using inadequate data are much less than those using no data at all.

Attributed to Charles Babbage in William Kenneth Richmond "The Education Industry", 1969.

The function of sociology, as of every science, is to reveal that which is hidden.

Pierre Bourdieu, Priscilla Parkhurst Ferguson (1999). “On Television”, p.17, The New Press

It is by logic that we prove, but by intuition that we discover. To know how to criticize is good, to know how to create is better.

Henri Poincare (2012). “The Value of Science: Essential Writings of Henri Poincare”, p.746, Modern Library

If we understood the world, we would realize that there is a logic of harmony underlying its manifold apparent dissonances.

"Living Biographies of Great Composers" by Henry Thomas and Dana Lee Thomas, Garden City (NY): Blue Ribbon, (p. 309), 1946.

The whole is more than the sum of its parts.

James McLean Watson, Aristotle (1909). “Aristotle's criticisms of Plato”

It is advertising and the logic of consumerism that governs the depiction of reality in the mass media.

Christopher Lasch (1991). “The True and Only Heaven: Progress and Its Critics”, p.519, W. W. Norton & Company

There are crimes of passion and crimes of logic. The boundary between them is not clearly defined.

Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.3, Vintage