Errors using inadequate data are much less than those using no data at all.
The world is more than the sum of its suffering.
I think part of the appeal of mathematical logic is that the formulas look mysterious - you write backward Es!
Much of what I make is geometric, and has a kind of almost mathematical logic to the form
What seems certain is that Pythagoras developed the idea of mathematical logic. He realized that numbers exist independently of the tangible world and therefore their study was untainted by inaccuracies of perception. This meant he could discover truths which were independent of opinion of prejudice and which were more absolute than any previous knowledge.
Only mathematics and mathematical logic can say as little as the physicist means to say.
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.
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.
We never know what we are talking about.
Here at Wisconsin we didn't get an undergraduate course in mathematical logic until the '60s.
There are three kinds of people: those who can count, and those who cannot.
A painting is more than the sum of its parts
A fist is more than the sum of its fingers.
I am allowed to use plain English because everybody knows that I could use mathematical logic if I chose.
