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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 is illogical to say, as many etatists do, that liberalism is hostile to or hates the state, because it is opposed to the transfer of the ownership of railroads or cotton mills to the state. If a man says that sulphuric acid does not make a good hand lotion, he is not expressing hostility to sulphuric acid as such; he is simply giving his opinion concerning the limitations of its use."
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"We seldom make logical mistakes, but often have mistaken logics."
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"A thousand minus one is never a thousand."
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"In order to disprove the assertion that all crows are black, one white crow is sufficient."
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"For nothing is more democratic than logic, it is no respecter of persons and makes no distinction between crooked and straight noses."
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"I was upset. I had always believed logic was a universal weapon and now I realized how its validity depended on the way it was employed."
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"A narrow hallway is all that separates rational from irrational, creativity from insanity, and intelligence from stupidity."
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"The existence of a majority logically implies a corresponding minority."
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"The rule is, jam tomorrow and jam yesterday - but never jam today."
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"Many people have said to me that I'm a mystic. I find that a bit mysterious. I just use logic and common sense for my philosophies."
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"The job in Wisconsin was the first genuine offer of an academic job in a university which I received."
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"I don't think Post often came to Princeton during the '30s. I can't remember ever seeing him in Princeton."
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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."
Church
"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."
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"I'm sure Church got some of his ideas from this trip to Europe."
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"Here at Wisconsin we didn't get an undergraduate course in mathematical logic until the '60s."
Logic
"Those three years ended with June 1933. At that time I left Princeton, having submitted my Ph.D. thesis."
Time
"I read one or two other books which gave me a background in mathematics other than logic."
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"I went to Princeton from Amherst, where I split my interests between mathematics and philosophy."
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"Well, I think Barkley and I were the only two who were working with Church for a Ph.D."
Church
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