Quotes on Mathematical Logic

The whole is more than the sum of its parts.

Logic is the hygiene the mathematician practices to keep his ideas healthy and strong.

I tell them that if they will occupy themselves with the study of mathematics they will find in it the best remedy against the lusts of the flesh.

Mathematics is a game played according to certain simple rules with meaningless marks on paper.

I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.

I know that two and two make four - and should be glad to prove it too if I could - though I must say if by any sort of process I could convert 2 and 2 into five it would give me much greater pleasure.

The fact that all Mathematics is Symbolic Logic is one of the greatest discoveries of our age; and when this fact has been established, the remainder of the principles of mathematics consists of the analysis of Symbolic Logic itself.

Six is a number perfect in itself, and not because God created the world in six days; rather the contrary is true. God created the world in six days because this number is perfect, and it would remain perfect, even if the work of the six days did not exist.

Poets do not go mad; but chess-players do. Mathematicians go mad, and cashiers; but creative artists very seldom. I am not, as will be seen, in any sense attacking logic: I only say that this danger does lie in logic, not in imagination.

Though this be madness, yet there is method in't.

Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.

All exact science is dominated by the idea of approximation.

Mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true.

It is not enough to have a good mind. The main thing is to use it well.

Ordinary language is totally unsuited for expressing what physics really asserts, since the words of everyday life are not sufficiently abstract. Only mathematics and mathematical logic can say as little as the physicist means to say.

Mathematics consists in proving the most obvious thing in the least obvious way.

Only mathematics and mathematical logic can say as little as the physicist means to say.

Contrariwise, if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic.

The mathematical sciences particularly exhibit order symmetry and limitations; and these are the greatest forms of the beautiful.

Since the mathematicians have invaded the theory of relativity I do not understand it myself any more.

The pursuit of mathematics is a divine madness of the human spirit.