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Now this principle of induction cannot be a purely logical truth like a tautology or an analytic statement. . . .
If you're a fan of my work and I'm a fan of your work, it just seems logical for us to work on something together.
Silicon Valley is like Wall Street in that it will fill and pursue market opportunities to their logical extremes.
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.
If you have a great passion it seems that the logical thing is to see the fruit of it, and the fruit are children.
I always devise a background so that it makes what your character goes through logical and keeps up the continuity.
People imagine that programming is logical, a process like fixing a clock. Nothing could be further from the truth.
Privatization of the postal system has long been characterized as absurd, but I have always said it is only logical.
What must be remembered in any case is that secret complicity that joins the logical and the everyday to the tragic.
Being Bayern captain feels good and I think it's logical a player from Munich should lead FC Bayern on to the pitch.
Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody reads.
Engineers are very logical and everything has to be tested so when we fail, we'll know why and how to improve things.
You overcome the logical resistance to change by proving that a new approach actually works, usually on a small scale.
Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody can read.
Freedom in art, freedom in society, this is the double goal towards which all consistent and logical minds must strive.
We are afraid of ideas, of experimenting, of change. We shrink from thinking a problem through to a logical conclusion.
We have a need to make people laugh at things they'd never thought about, make them laugh at things that aren't logical.
I guess I am famous in a way. I would rather consider it recognizable - I think that is more logical. I don't feel famous.
It may be far in the future, but there's some kind of logical way to get from where we are to where the science fiction is.
If you take Darwin's theory and extend it to its logical end, it can be used to justify a number of very horrendous things.
Kids don't have ruts yet that adults have carved into their minds. They're born logical. Crooked thinking has to be taught.
An action doesn't have to be wrong just because it is not logical. It doesn't have to be right just because it has its logic.
Logical reasoning is an argument which we have with ourselves and which reproduces internally the features of a real argument.
The brain needs to have a story; it needs to have a logical screenplay telling where we're coming from and what we're going to.
To explain the unknown by the known is a logical procedure; to explain the known by the unknown is a form of theological lunacy.
I work in a business of extremes, so when you are with someone who is very calm and logical, it's a great kind of balance to have.
He was a great man, my granddad, a very calm, logical and methodical guy. I suppose I'm trying to be more like him as I get older.
My love of science fiction comes from the idea of being able to explore ideas and concepts to an either logical or illogical extreme.
Dramatic experience is not logical; it may be subdued to the kind of coherence that we indicate when we speak, in criticism, of form.
Racism is to the current era what unAmericanism was to the Fifties: a curse word that provides a handy substitute for logical thought.
My first recollection of performing was shortly after my parents split up, so the logical conclusion to draw is that that affected me.
The strictly logical mind is usually if not always at fault in its valuations of that defiantly illogical thing known as human nature.
My last name has the word 'big' in it. It seems like a logical progression that if you shed away the Bir and the lia, I'll just be Big.
Congressional dysfunction is the logical result of closed primaries, too many gerrymandered one-party seats, and low-turnout elections.
I teach people to be flexible, scientific and logical in their thinking and therefore to be less prone to brainwashing by the therapist.
To me, acting is the most logical way for people's neuroses to manifest themselves, in this great need we all have to express ourselves.
A sane mind should not be guilty of a logical fallacy, yet there are very fine minds incapable of following mathematical demonstrations.
The purpose of this study is to offer a logical, practical, pragmatic proof of the existence of God from a purely scientific perspective.
At the end of the day, it not only doesn't make logical sense to deny licenses to undocumented immigrants, it doesn't make financial sense.
In the world I've lived in, gay marriage, for example, seems completely logical. And yet there are many people who don't live in that world.
The initial stage, the act of conceiving or inventing a theory, seems to me neither to call for logical analysis nor to be susceptible of it.
The supreme maxim in scientific philosophising is this: wherever possible, logical constructions are to be substituted for inferred entities.
A long apprenticeship is the most logical way to success. The only alternative is overnight stardom, but I can't give you a formula for that.
It is logical for a U.S. person to give their money away while they are alive, as the government will take it from you when you die in taxes.
Opera, next to Gothic architecture, is one of the strangest inventions of Western man. It could not have been foreseen by any logical process.
The more you learn, the more you know. The more you know, the more you forget. The more you forget, the less you know. So why bother to learn.
The most enduring battle is between head and heart; what would be efficient and logical is nearly always trumped by what is messy and illogical.
Of all the logical impasses, unknowings, paradoxes, and terrors that provoke laughter, death by its finality and unsolvable mystery is paramount.
What kind of liberation would that be to forsake an absurdity which is logical and coherent and to embrace one which is illogical and incoherent?
If scientific reasoning were limited to the logical processes of arithmetic, we should not get very far in our understanding of the physical world