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• Logic is the foundation of the certainty of all the knowledge we acquire.

  Leonhard Euler

  Foundation, Certainty, Acquire

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• Schools train people to be ignorant, with style. They give you the equipment that you need to be a functional ignoramus. American schools* do not equip you to deal with things like logic; they don't give you the criteria by which to judge between good and bad in any medium or format; and they prepare you to be a usable victim for military-industrial complex that needs manpower.

  Frank Zappa

  Military, School, People

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• His musical inspiration operates in a world uncluttered by conventional bar lines, conventional chord changes, and conventional ways of blowing or fingering a saxophone. Such practical 'limitations' did not even have to be overcome in his music; they somehow never existed for him. Despite this - or more accurately, because of this - his playing has a deep inner logic. Not an obvious surface logic, it is based on subtleties of reaction, subtleties of timing and color that are, I think, quite new to jazz - at least they have never appeared in so pure and direct a form.

  Gunther Schuller

  Inspiration, Thinking, Color

  "All American Music: Composition in the Late Twentieth Century". Book by John Rockwell, 1983.

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• All beauty, resonance, integrity,
  Exist by deprivation or logic
  Of strange position.

  John Ashbery

  Inspirational, Life, Integrity

  John Ashbery (1986). “Selected Poems”

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• Stories are there to be told, and each story changes with the telling. Time changes them. Logic changes them. Grammar changes them. History changes them. Each story is shifted side-ways by each day that unfolds. Nothing ends. The only thing that matters, as Faulkner once put it, is the human heart in conflict with itself. At the heart of all this is the possibility, or desire, to create a piece of art that talks to the human instinct for recovery and joy.

  Colum McCann

  Art, Recovery, Joy

  "Author, author: Stories are there to be told" by Colum McCann, www.theguardian.com. September 4, 2009.

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• If there is a problem you can't solve, then there is an easier problem you can't solve: find it.

  George Polya

  Education, Knowledge, Math

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• A GREAT discovery solves a great problem but there is a grain of discovery in any problem.

  George Polya

  Education, Knowledge, Math

  George Pólya (1957). “How to solve it: a new aspect of mathematical method”

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• The theory of high-intensity, anaerobic, bodybuilding exercise is not true because I or anyone else, no matter how many might agree, say it is true. It is the fact that the logic of the theory is unassailable which makes it true.

  Mike Mentzer

  Exercise, Bodybuilding, Might

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• Logic is an old subject, and since 1879 it has been a great one.

  Willard Van Orman Quine

  Subjects, Has Beens, Great Ones

  "Methods of Logic". Book by Willard Van Orman Quine, 1950.

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• There's a logic to dreams that doesn't necessarily follow linear narrative. You don't know why things happen, it's your subconscious pushing you, to give you information.

  Justin Theroux

  Dream, Giving, Why Things Happen

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

  George Polya

  Knowledge, Math, Obvious Things

  George Pólya (1968). “Mathematical discovery: on understanding, learning, and teaching problem solving”

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• In life two negatives don't make a positive. Double negatives turn positive only in math and formal logic. In life things just get worse and worse and worse.

  Robert McKee

  Math, Two, Formal

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• Brevity is the soul of command. Too much talking suggests desperation on the part of the leader. Speak shortly, decisively and to the point–and couch your desires in such natural logic that no one can raise objections. Then move on.

  Cyrus the Great

  Moving, Talking, Leader

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• The trouble with facts is that there are so many of them.

  Samuel McChord Crothers

  Math, Facts, Trouble

  The Gentle Reader (p. 183)

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• At the moment, every country arrives at climate negotiations seeking to keep their own emissions as high as possible. This is the logic of the madhouse, a recipe for collective suicide. We dont want a global suicide pact. We want a global survival pact

  Mohamed Nasheed

  Suicide, Country, Survival

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• To make music means to express human intelligence by sonic means. This is intelligence in its broadest sense, which includes not only the peregrinations of pure logic but also the "logic" of emotions and intuition. My musical techniques, although often rigorous in their internal structure, leave many openings through which the most complex and mysterious factors of the intelligence may penetrate.

  Iannis Xenakis

  Music, Mean, Intuition

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• Mathematics is a more powerful instrument of knowledge than any other that has been bequeathed to us by human agency.

  Rene Descartes

  Powerful, Knowledge, Math

  RENE DESCARTES (1952). “RULES FOR THE DIRECTION OF THE MIND DISCOURSE ON THE METHOD MEDITATIONS ON FIRST PHILOSOPHY OBJECTIONS AGAINST THE MEDITATIONS AND REPLIES THE GEOMETRY”

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• Mathematics - this may surprise or shock some - is never deductive in creation.

  Paul Halmos

  Education, Knowledge, Math

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• Mathematics is a body of knowledge, but it contains no truths.

  Morris Kline

  Knowledge, Math, Body

  Morris Kline (1964). “Mathematics in Western Culture”, p.9, Oxford University Press

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• "I see it, but I don't believe it."

  Richard Dedekind

  Believe, Ontology, Statistics

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• ...mathematics is distinguished from all other sciences except only ethics, in standing in no need of ethics. Every other science, even logic, especially in its early stages, is in danger of evaporating into airy nothingness, degenerating, as the Germans say, into an arachnoid film, spun from the stuff that dreams are made of. There is no such danger for pure mathematics; for that is precisely what mathematics ought to be.

  Charles Sanders Peirce

  Dream, Math, Science

  Charles Sanders Peirce (1931). “Collected Papers of Charles Sanders Peirce”

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• Logic doesn't apply to the real world.

  Marvin Minsky

  Real, Knowledge, Math

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• Arithmetic is where the content lies, and not logic; but logic prompts certainty, and not arithmetic.

  David Berlinski

  Lying, Mathematics, Arithmetic

  David Berlinski (2000). “The Advent of the Algorithm: The Idea that Rules the World”, Houghton Mifflin

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• I do not believe in the gifted. If [the students] have ganas, I can make them do it.

  Jaime Escalante

  Believe, Knowledge, Math

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• If logic itself is created rather than being inborn, it follows that the first task of education is to form reasoning.

  Jean Piaget

  Tasks, Firsts, Form

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