“The whole is more than the sum of its parts.”
Source: Aristotle's criticisms of Plato
Mathematical Logic Quotes
Browse 65 quotes about Mathematical Logic.
Related topics
Mathematical Logic Quotes
“The mathematician's patterns, like the painter's or the poet's, must be beautiful.”
“A fist is more than the sum of its fingers.”
Source: The Blind Assassin: A Novel
Source: Bertrand Russell's Best
“Errors using inadequate data are much less than those using no data at all.”
“For the things of this world cannot be made known without a knowledge of mathematics.”
Source: Opus Majus, Volumes 1 and 2
“I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.”
Source: The Letters of John and Abigail Adams
“You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.”
“Young man, in mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them.”
Source: The Magic Mountain
“The pursuit of mathematics is a divine madness of the human spirit.”
Source: Science and the Modern World
Source: Albert Einstein: philosopher-scientist
“As for everything else, so for a mathematical theory: beauty can be perceived but not explained.”
Source: The Collected Mathematical Papers of Arthur Cayley
“Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.”
Source: The Modern Temper
“God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically.”
“When introduced at the wrong time or place, good logic may be the worst enemy of good teaching.”
“Only mathematics and mathematical logic can say as little as the physicist means to say.”
Source: The basic writings of Bertrand Russell, 1903-1959
Source: Principles of Mathematics
“Obvious is the most dangerous word in mathematics.”
Source: The queen of the sciences
“It is not certain that everything is uncertain.”
Source: The Thoughts on religion, and evidences of Christianity, of Pascal; tr., with intr., notes, etc., by G. Pearce
“I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning.”
Source: The Complete Works of Plato (Unabridged): From the greatest Greek philosopher, known for The Republic, Symposium, Apology, Phaedrus, Laws, Crito, Phaedo, Timaeus, Meno, Euthyphro, Gorgias, Parmenides, Protagoras, Statesman and Critias
“We never know what we are talking about.”
Source: Unended Quest: An Intellectual Autobiography
“Logic, like whiskey, loses its beneficial effect when taken in too large quantities.”
“Mathematics is a game played according to certain simple rules with meaningless marks on paper.”
“Mathematics is the science which uses easy words for hard ideas.”
Source: Mathematics and the Imagination
“Much of what I make is geometric, and has a kind of almost mathematical logic to the form.”
“It would be better for the true physics if there were no mathematicians on earth.”
“A painting is more than the sum of its parts”
Source: Flipped
“Mathematics consists in proving the most obvious thing in the least obvious way.”
Source: Mathematical discovery: on understanding, learning, and teaching problem solving
“Logic is invincible, because in order to combat logic it is necessary to use logic.”
“Logic is the hygiene the mathematician practices to keep his ideas healthy and strong.”
Source: The basic writings of Bertrand Russell, 1903-1959