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"Here at Wisconsin we didn't get an undergraduate course in mathematical logic until the '60s."
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"It had to be a trick or you couldn't have done it."

"Be aware of this truth that the people on this earth could be joyous, if only they would live rationally and if they would contribute mutually to each others' welfare.This world is not a vale of sorrows if you will recognize discriminatingly what is truly excellent in it; and if you will avail yourself of it for mutual happiness and well-being. Therefore, let us explain as often as possible, and particularly at the departure of life, that we base our faith on firm foundations, on Truth for putting into action our ideas which do not depend on fables and ideas which Science has long ago proven to be false."

"Not everyone understands what a completely rational process this is, this maintenance of a motorcycle. They think it's some kind of 'knack' or some kind of 'affinity for machines' in operation. They are right, but the knack is almost purely a process of reason, and most of the troubles are caused by what old time radio men called a 'short between the earphones,' failures to use the head properly. A motorcycle functions entirely in accordance with the laws of reason, and a study of the art of motorcycle maintenance is really a miniature study of the art of rationality itself."

"I assure you, my good Lestrade, that I have an excellent reason for everything that I do."

"If-Then" is a structured logic of humans' thought,who have memories and imagination in their mind. If both don't exist, Then this quote has never even been written."

"It is always easy to be logical. It is almost impossible to be logical to the bitter end."

"I am afraid that I rather give myself away when I explain," said he. "Results without causes are much more impressive."
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"I think that after Church got his Ph.D. he studied in Europe, maybe in the Netherlands, for a year or two."


"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."


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


"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."


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