Symbolic Logic Quotes (3 quotes)
Symbolic Logic…has been disowned by many logicians on the plea that its interest is mathematical, and by many mathematicians on the plea that its interest is logical.
In 'Preface', A Treatise on Universal Algebra: With Applications (1898), Vol. 1, vi.
The mathematician lives in a purely conceptual sphere, and mathematics is but the higher development of Symbolic Logic.
In Recent Development of Physical Science (1904), 34. The second half of the sentence appears in Robert Édouard Moritz, Memorabilia Mathematica (1914), 206.
The two great components of the critical movement, though distinct in origin and following separate paths, are found to converge at last in the thesis: Symbolic Logic is Mathematics, Mathematics is Symbolic Logic, the twain are one.
In Lecture delivered at Columbia University (16 Oct 1907), 'Mathematics', the first of a series published as Lectures on Science, Philosophy and Art (1908), 19.
In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.
(1987) -- 
