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  1. Dan Simmons _ Hyperion

    Look,' said Tyrena. 'In twentieth-century Old Earth, a fast food chain took dead cow meat, fried it in grease, added carcinogens, wrapped it in petroleum-based foam, and sold nine hundred billion units. Human beings. Go figure.
    book-quotehuman-beingslogicmeat

  2. Arthur Conan Doyle _ The Return of Sherlock Holmes

    There were no footmarks.''Meaning that you saw none?''I assure you, sir, that there were none.''My good Hopkins, I have investigated many crimes, but I have never yet seen one which was committed by a flying creature. As long as the criminal remains upon two legs so long must there be some indentation, some abrasion, some trifling displacement which can be detected by the scientific searcher.
    book-quotelogic

  3. Mark Haddon _ The Curious Incident of the

    And intuition is what people is what people use in life to make decisions.But logic can help you work out the right answer.
    book-quotelogic

  4. Yann Martel _ Life of Pi

    What is the purpose of reason, Richard Parker? Is it no more than to shine at practicalities - the getting of food, clothing and shelter? Why can't reason give greater answers? Why can we throw a question further than we can pull in an answer? Why such a vast net of there's so little fish to catch?
    book-quotereasonlogic

  5. Douglas Adams _ The Restaurant at the End of

    A doctor, a logician and a marine biologist had also just arrived, flown in at phenomenal expense from Maximegalon to try to reason with the lead singer who had locked himself in the bathroom with a bottle of pills and was refusing to come out till it could be proved conclusively to him that he wasn't a fish. The bass player was busy machine-gunning his bedroom and the drummer was nowhere on board.Frantic inquiries led to the discovery that he was standing on a beach on Santraginus V over a hundred light years away where, he claimed, he had been happy for over half an hour now and had found a small stone that would be his friend.
    book-quotehumorhappinessmusic

  6. Douglas Adams _ So Long, and Thanks for All

    It seemed to me,' said Wonko the Sane, 'that any civilization that had so far lost its head as to need to include a set of detailed instructions for use in a package of toothpicks, was no longer a civilization in which I could live and stay sane.
    book-quotehumorlogich2g2

  7. Douglas Adams _ Dirk Gently's Holistic

    There is no point in using the word 'impossible' to describe something that has clearly happened.
    book-quotepastrealitylogic

  8. Douglas Adams _ The Salmon of Doubt

    All opinions are not equal. Some are a very great deal more robust, sophisticated and well supported in logic and argument than others.
    book-quotelifeopinionslogic

  9. Douglas Adams _ The Hitchhiker's Guide to the

    Now it is such a bizarrely improbable coincidence that anything so mind-bogglingly useful could have evolved purely by chance that some thinkers have chosen to see it as the final and clinching proof of the non-existence of God.The argument goes something like this: "I refuse to prove that I exist,'" says God, "for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing.""But," says Man, "The Babel fish is a dead giveaway, isn't it? It could not have evolved by chance. It proves you exist, and so therefore, by your own arguments, you don't. QED.""Oh dear," says God, "I hadn't thought of that," and promptly vanishes in a puff of logic."Oh, that was easy," says Man, and for an encore goes on to prove that black is white and gets himself killed on the next zebra crossing.
    book-quoterationalismgodman

  10. Frank Herbert _ Chapterhouse: Dune

    Clinging to any form of conservatism can be dangerous. Become too conservative and you are unprepared for surprises. You cannot depend on luck. Logic is blind and often knows only its own past. Logic is good for playing chess but is often too slow for the needs of survival.
    book-quotelogicsurvival

  11. Charles Dickens _ Our Mutual Friend

    {She wasn't} a logically reasoning woman, but God is good, and hearts may count in heaven as high as heads.
    book-quoteheavenlogichearts

  12. Barbara Ehrenreich _ Living with a Wild God: A

    In fact, the idea of a God who is both all-powerful and all good is a logical impossibility.
    book-quotelogicomnipotence
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