The cosmic game changed forever in 1992. Before then, logic told us that there had to be other planets besides the nine (if you still count poor Pluto) in our solar system, but until that year, when two astronomers detected faint, telltale radio signals in the constellation Virgo, we had no hard evidence of their existence.
Thomas Mallon
GameLogicYearYouPoorSolar
Wal-Mart uses technology to increase sales volume, but the more it does so, the more it drives down profit margins - its own and everybody else's. The same logic does not appear to hold for Goldman Sachs.
Timothy Noah
TechnologyLogicDownProfitSales
Shop often, shop hard, and spend for the best stuff available - logic dictates that you can make delicious food only with delicious ingredients.
Mario Batali
FoodBestLogicYouHardDelicious
Logic is the beginning of wisdom, not the end.
Leonard Nimoy
WisdomBeginningEndLogic
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
DreamsLogicYouInformationKnow
There's a simple arithmetical logic at work. Build more unaffordable and not always architecturally sympathetic apartments, watch the rents rise, the tarts leave, the small shops, production offices and design studios close down, and hey presto, we have another fashionable London suburb indistinguishable from the rest.
Howard Jacobson
WorkSimpleSmallRestDesignLogic
It has been hard to get my head around how Justice Antonin Scalia rationalizes his decisions. His body blow to the Voting Rights Act was a head scratcher, but at least he was calm when he attempted to justify his odd logic.
Henry Rollins
JusticeCalmVotingDecisionsLogic
Everyone finds justification for his or her views in logic and analysis, but a personal philosophy often emerges from some archaic part of the mind, an early idea of how the world should be.
George Packer
MindWorldLogicPhilosophyEarly
One of the most powerful transformational catalysts is knowledge, new information, or logic that defies old mental models and ways of thinking.
Elizabeth Thornton
KnowledgeThinkingLogicPowerful
We live in a Newtonian world of Einsteinian physics ruled by Frankenstein logic.
David Russell
LiveWorldLogicPhysicsRuled
It is not that I believe ideals are unimportant, even among the realities of war; but if a nation is to survive in a hostile world, its ideals must be backed by the hard logic of military practicability.
Charles Lindbergh
WarWorldSurviveBelieveLogic
Chess is not only knowledge and logic.
Alexander Alekhine
KnowledgeLogicChessOnly
Dialectic thought is an attempt to break through the coercion of logic by its own means.
Theodor W. Adorno
ThoughtLogicThroughBreakOwn
For no art and no religion is possible until we make allowances, until we manage to keep quiet the enfant terrible of logic that plays havoc with the other faculties.
John Crowe Ransom
ArtReligionLogicQuietPossible
Film is an emotional medium; it's not a logical medium. It's not an intellectual medium, so every decision you make as a filmmaker and an actor has to be emotional in some way, even in the rejection of logic.
Paul Haggis
DecisionLogicRejectionYouWay
Insolence is not logic; epithets are the arguments of malice.
Robert Green Ingersoll
LogicMaliceInsolence
Acting isn't something you do. Instead of doing it, it occurs. If you're going to start with logic, you might as well give up. You can have conscious preparation, but you have unconscious results.
Lee Strasberg
PreparationStartLogicDoingActing
Once I accumulated a bunch of sounds and learned how to use Logic, I was like, 'Wait a second, I don't need to work with any producers. I can do this on my own.'
Amber Mark
WorkWaitLogicI CanMy OwnNeed
A logic proof is: you get a starting point and an ending point, and you have to get there through all these different steps and tautologies. I approach novel writing that way. When I get to the end I have to go back and connect everything.
Heidi Julavits
WritingEndingEndLogicYouBack
For example, the philosophers who were interested in logic were probably rather logical for mathematicians. But the ASL got us together, so we could talk to each other and publish in the same journal.
Stephen Cole Kleene
TogetherLogicJournalTalkSameUs
Nobody gets argued all the way into becoming a believer on the sheer basis of logic and reason. That requires a leap of faith.
Francis Collins
FaithLogicNobodyWayLeapReason
What I like about the jokes, to me it's a lot of logic, no matter how crazy they are. It has to make absolute sense, or it won't be funny.
Steven Wright
FunnyMeCrazyLogicMatterJokes
What's the logic of investing millions in agriculture if it will not pay off?
Ehud Olmert
LogicAgricultureWillInvestingPay
Intuition is a suspension of logic due to impatience.
Rita Mae Brown
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