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Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.

—Albert Einstein
Constant is the rumor we adhere to, as the theory we cling to.

—Monk Frost (14/02/2010)
No, no. You are not thinking. You are only being logical.

—Niels Bohr
In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But, in practice, there is.

—Jan L.A. van de Snepscheut
The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced.

—Andre Gide
Against logic there is no armor like ignorance.

—Laurence J. Peter
Evidently logic has escaped us.

—Monk Frost (15/09/2009)
Evidently logic has nothing to do with politic's

—Monk Frost (10/02/2010)
Two different theories exist concerning the origin of children: the theory of sexual reproduction, and the theory of the stork. Many people believe in the theory of sexual reproduction because they have been taught this theory at school. In reality, however, many of the world's leading scientists are in favor of the theory of the stork. If the theory of sexual reproduction is taught in schools, it must only be taught as a theory and not as the truth. Alternative theories, such as the theory of the stork, must also be taught.

Evidence supporting the theory of the stork includes the following:

1. It is a scientifically established fact that the stork does exist. This can be confirmed by every ornithologist.

2. The alleged human fetal development contains several features that the theory of sexual reproduction is unable to explain.

—Institute for Stork Research and Science
The truth is that Tolstoy, with his immense genius, with his colossal faith, with his vast fearlessness and vast knowledge of life, is deficient in one faculty and one faculty alone. He is not a mystic; and therefore he has a tendency to go mad. Men talk of the extravagances and frenzies that have been produced by mysticism; they are a mere drop in the bucket. In the main, and from the beginning of time, mysticism has kept men sane. The thing that has driven them mad was logic. ...The only thing that has kept the race of men from the mad extremes of the convent and the pirate-galley, the night-club and the lethal chamber, has been mysticism — the belief that logic is misleading, and that things are not what they seem.

—G. K. Chesterton (1903)
Gray, worthy friend, is all your theory
And green the golden tree of life.

—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The Copenhagen Interpretation is sometimes called "model agnosticism" and holds that any grid we use to organize our experience of the world is a model of the world and should not be confused with the world itself. Alfred Korzybski, the semanticist, tried to popularize this outside physics with the slogan, "The map is not the territory." Alan Watts, a talented exegete of Oriental philosophy, restated it more vividly as "The menu is not the meal."

—Robert Anton Wilson
The philosophical quest became obscured in the modern West by the linear succession of schools, each resulting from a violent reaction to its predecessors, each claiming to possess the Truth more or less exclusively, and often insisting upon the sole validity of its method of proceeding. The slavish concern with academic respectability and the fear of anathemization resulted in the increasing alienation of thought from being, of cognition from conduct, and philosophical disputation from the problems of daily life.

—Raghavan Iyer
Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it.

—Donald Knuth (1977)
A conjecture can be dressed up as a dead certainty with enough rhetoric and protected against dissent with enough threatening language, but finally it has to meet the only test of science, which is that any theory must fit the facts, and the facts can't be altered to suit the theory.

—Clive James (23/10/2009)
Perfection lies in the overcoming of flaws, and love overcomes the flaws of logic.

—Benjamin Hines (30/07/2009)
Science is organized common sense where many a beautiful theory was killed by an ugly fact.

—Thomas Huxley
We must question the story logic of having an all-knowing all-powerful God, who creates faulty Humans, and then blames them for his own mistakes

—Gene Roddenberry
It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.

—Sherlock Holmes (Arthur Conan Doyle)
He recognized with absolute certainty the empty fragility of even the noblest theorizings as compared with the definitive plenitude of the smallest fact grasped in its total, concrete reality.

—Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (1961)

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