Bad Reasoning As Well As Good Reasoning

Fate Then Is That Necessity By Which A Certain Result Will Surely Be Brought To Pass According To The Natural Course Of Events However We May Vary The Particular Circumstances Which Precede The Event.

The One [the Logician] Studies The Science Of Drawing Conclusions, The Other [the Mathematician] The Science Which Draws Necessary Conclusions.

Another Characteristic Of Mathematical Thought Is That It Can Have No Success Where It Cannot Generalize.

We Shall Do Better To Abandon The Whole Attempt To Learn The Truthunless We Can Trust To The Human Mind's Having Such A Powerof Guessing Right That Before Very Many Hypotheses Shall Have Been Tried, Intelligent Guessing May Be Expected To Lead Us To One Which Will Support All Tests, Leaving The Vast Majority Of Possible Hypotheses Unexamined.

It Is... Easy To Be Certain. One Has Only To Be Sufficiently Vague.