Robert A. Heinlein Quotes About Logic
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Since when was an emotional argument won by logic?
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A critic is a man who creates nothing and thereby feels qualified to judge the work of creative men. There is logic in this; he is unbiased, he hates all creative people equally.
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You can sway a thousand men by appealing to their prejudices quicker than you can convince one man by logic.
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Some logics get nervous breakdowns. Overloaded phone system behaves like frightened child. Mike did not have upsets, acquired sense of humor instead. Low one. If he were a man, you wouldn't dare stoop over. His idea of thigh-slapper would be to dump you out of bed — or put itch powder in pressure suit.
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His was not a small mind bothered by logic and consistency.
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Logic is a feeble reed, friend.
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Logic is a feeble reed, friend. "Logic" proved that airplanes can't fly and that H-bombs won't work and that stones don't fall out of the sky. Logic is a way of saying that anything which didn't happen yesterday won't happen tomorrow.
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Analogy is even slipperier than logic.
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