D. H. Lawrence Quotes

Do not imagine that mathematics is hard and crabbed, and repulsive to common sense. It is merely the etherealization of common sense.

I'm very good in math, and I'm a logical thinker. I don't get wrapped up in things or even wrapped up in myself.

Definitions are the foundation of reason. You can't reason without them.

It's a simple exercise; a little logic, a little taste, and the will to cooperate.

I think you have to be left-brained, to a certain extent, to understand science. I can talk about it, but I can't do it.

There is no problem so complicated that you can't find a very simple answer to it if you look at it right.

Thinking. A process by which I use my brain to make a rational decision.

Logic is a large drawer, containing some useful instruments, and many more that are superfluous. A wise man will look into it for two purposes, to avail himself of those instruments that are really useful, and to admire the ingenuity with which those that are not so, are assorted and arranged.

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

Clear thought makes clear speech.

Stupidity is no excuse of not thinking.

We can't avoid reasoning; we can only avoid doing it well.

Geometry enlightlens the intellect and sets one's mind right

These two rational faculties may be designated the Scientific Faculty and the Calculative Faculty respectively; since calculation is the same as deliberation, and deliberation is never exercised about things that are invariable, so that the Calculative Faculty is a separate part of the rational half of the soul.

Talk about rationality can get very confusing unless the things with which rationality deals are also included.

Reason is non-negotiable. Try to argue against it, or to exclude it from some realm of knowledge, and you've already lost the argument, because you're using reason to make your case. ... We don't "believe" in reason.

Neumann, to a physicist seeking help with a difficult problem: Simple. This can be solved by using the method of characteristics. Physicist: I'm afraid I don't understand the method of characteristics. Neumann: In mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them.

Philosophy is "an unusually stubborn attempt to think clearly.

The concept of logical thinking is selection and this is brought about by the processes of acceptance and rejection. Rejection is the basis of logical thinking.

..things are never as complicated as they seem. It is only our arrogance that prompts us to find unnecessarily complicated answers to simple problems.

In desperate times, much more than anything else, folks need perspective. For perspective brings calm. Calm leads to clear thinking. Clear thinking yields new ideas. And ideas produce the bloom...of an answer. Keep your head and heart clear. Perspective can just as easily be lost as it can be found.

Mechanical rules are never a substitute for clarity of thought.

Bein logical gave me a reason to doubt

It is for this reason that rationality is of supreme importance to the well-being of the human species...even more, in those less fortunate times in which it is despised and rejected as the vain dream of men who lack the virility to kill where they cannot agree.

Reason is the light, the sun of the brain. It is the compass of the mind, the ever-constant Northern Star, the mountain peak that lifts itself above all clouds.