Straw Vulcan/Quotes

Logic could only take you so far, then you had to get out and walk.

—Terry Pratchett, The Last Continent

Chaos and optionality, which to these days governed the historical and political ideas, have been replaced by a stunningly uniform and harmonious scientific theory.

—Vladimir Illich Lenin

"I cannot - yet I must! How do you calculate that? At what point on the graph do 'must' and 'cannot' meet?"

—Ro-Man, Robot Monster

"Logic, logic, logic. Logic is the beginning of wisdom, not its end."

—Spock, Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country

"Logic is like the sword -- those who appeal to it, shall perish by it."

—Samuel Butler

"Logic is a poor guide compared with custom."

—Winston Churchill

"Logic, like whiskey, loses its beneficial effect when taken in too large quantities."

—Lord Dunsany

"I've never been a fan of books. I don't trust them. They're all fact and no heart."

—Stephen Colbert, parodying this trope

Bob: It was really more foolish than that. I used to ask myself — why doesn't she love me?
Mary: You asked yourself - that?
Bob: All the time.

Mary: (Throws bedclothes on sofa, exploding.) That's why I hate intellectuals! They're all so dumb!

—Mary, Mary

When you get all Mr. Spock and you refuse to believe in intuition, you are essentially turning off a very substantial lobe of your brain. Worse, there is no actual off switch on this lobe. You will continue to think intuitively whether you like it or not. But you will think intuitively in an unexamined way. As both Yudkowsky and Dawkins do—when they regurgitate the anticlerical themes of Universalism without asking where anticlericalism comes from, how it got into their lumps of fat, or whether it belongs there.

—Interstitial Comments On Dawkins by Mencius Moldbug