“This is the team. We're trying to go to the moon. If you can't put someone up, please don't put them down.”
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“Logic, n. The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding. The basic of logic is the syllogism, consisting of a major and a minor premise and a conclusion - thus:
Major Premise: Sixty men can do a piece of work sixty times as quickly as one man.
Minor Premise: One man can dig a post-hole in sixty seconds; Therefore-
Conclusion: Sixty men can dig a post-hole in one second.
This may be called syllogism arithmetical, in which, by combining logic and mathematics, we obtain a double certainty and are twice blessed.”
― The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary
Major Premise: Sixty men can do a piece of work sixty times as quickly as one man.
Minor Premise: One man can dig a post-hole in sixty seconds; Therefore-
Conclusion: Sixty men can dig a post-hole in one second.
This may be called syllogism arithmetical, in which, by combining logic and mathematics, we obtain a double certainty and are twice blessed.”
― The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary
“Physicists have come to realize that mathematics, when used with sufficient care, is a proven pathway to truth.”
― The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality
― The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality
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