Here at Wisconsin we didn't get an undergraduate course in mathematical logic until the '60s.

As I say, there was this movement to try to bring philosophers and mathematicians together into an organization where they would talk to each other. An organization wasn't effective unless you had a journal. That's about all I know.

And what I learned in Church's course. He trained us intensively in his new system, which he was just developing. Two papers were presented. I think the second paper wasn't published until well after the course was finished.

I read one or two other books which gave me a background in mathematics other than logic.

I think that after Church got his Ph.D. he studied in Europe, maybe in the Netherlands, for a year or two.

In the fall term of 1933-34 I was on my family farm in Maine.

I had a liberal arts education at Amherst College where I had two majors, mathematics and philosophy.

I went to Princeton in the fall of 1930 as a half-time instructor.

Well, I think Barkley and I were the only two who were working with Church for a Ph.D.

For example, the philosophers who were interested in logic were probably rather logical for mathematicians. But the ASL got us together, so we could talk to each other and publish in the same journal.

I don't think Post often came to Princeton during the '30s. I can't remember ever seeing him in Princeton.

I'm sure Church got some of his ideas from this trip to Europe.

Here at Wisconsin we didn't get an undergraduate course in mathematical logic until the '60s.

The job in Wisconsin was the first genuine offer of an academic job in a university which I received.

I think Veblen had an interest in logic.

I went to Princeton from Amherst, where I split my interests between mathematics and philosophy.

Those three years ended with June 1933. At that time I left Princeton, having submitted my Ph.D. thesis.

When I got to Princeton I made a point of attending the Philosophy Club and listening to the lectures, but I didn't get involved in any discussions in those clubs. I guess after the first year, I dropped that.

I had some hesitations about philosophy because, if you worked out a philosophical theory, it was hard to know whether you were going to be able to prove it or whether other theories had just as good a claim on belief.

It wasn't until my second year that I got to actually work with Church.

Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.

I think part of the appeal of mathematical logic is that the formulas look mysterious - You write backward Es!

The logic of validation allows us to move between the two limits of dogmatism and skepticism.

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

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

It may be that everything the life science companies are telling us will turn out to be right, and there's no problem here whatsoever. That defies logic.

Fear is a disease that eats away at logic and makes man inhuman.

Logic works, metaphysics contemplates.

The logic of words should yield to the logic of realities.

It's clear that people are going to download media files, and they're going to talk to each other, and they're going to exchange information and knowledge and so forth. So this system logic is basically what you bounce off of.

In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat, but in the evolution of real knowledge it marks the first step in progress toward a victory.

One of the things I particularly enjoyed doing was taking raw sound from locations during the film, like the candy machine, and writing pieces of music to go with them, which is totally unnecessary within the context of the film, because they have their own logic.

Much of my work in this period was concerned with exploring the logic of economic models, but also with attempting to reconcile the models with every day observation.

Religion is love; in no case is it logic.

The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced.

Companies are not charitable enterprises: They hire workers to make profits. In the United States, this logic still works. In Europe, it hardly does.

I don't see the logic of rejecting data just because they seem incredible.

In our story logic which we're making up, if we're saying he's alive, then like a quadriplegic who's in bed he can move his head and shoulders, but he can't move his arms. If he could just turn on that power to his legs and arms, the nerves could get through and he could walk.

The logic of the heart is absurd.

Logic, sometimes has very little to do with political action.

I read one or two other books which gave me a background in mathematics other than logic.

Against logic there is no armor like ignorance.

Contrariwise, if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic.

You reason color more than you reason drawing... Color has a logic as severe as form.

The book of female logic is blotted all over with tears, and Justice in their courts is forever in a passion.

He's suffering from Politicians' Logic. Something must be done, this is something, therefore we must do it.

There's always some kind of hidden logic.

The knowledge of the theory of logic has no tendency whatever to make men good reasoners.

Human beings lose their logic in their vindictiveness.