I think I may have been the only person to be rewarded charitably and get a tax deduction for swearing on film! — Hugh Jackman Copy Share Image
The pioneer scientist must have "a vivid intuitive imagination, for new ideas are not generated by deduction, but by artistically creative imagination." — Max Planck Copy Share Image
Observation and experiment for gathering material, induction and deduction for elaborating it: these are are only good intellectual tools. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
It is a capital mistake to theorize before you have all the evidence. It biases the judgment. — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
I must begin with a good body of facts and not from a principle (in which I always suspect some fallacy) and… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Intuition is the undoubting conception of a pure and attentive mind, which arises from the light of reason alone, and is more… — Rene Descartes Copy Share Image
Still, it is an error to argue in front of your data. You find yourself insensibly twisting them round to fit your… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
Anything is easy to the man who sees… The open eye of the open mind--that has more to do with real detective… — Samuel Hopkins Adams Copy Share Image
President Obama's recommended reduction in the tax deduction for charitable giving reflects his fundamental belief that only the government can or should… — Dick Morris Copy Share Image
As a citizen, you have an obligation to the countrys tax system, but you also have an obligation to yourself to know… — Donald Alexander Copy Share Image
My own varying estimates of the facts themselves, as the years passed, showed me too clearly how much of history must always… — C. V. Wedgwood Copy Share Image
We're facing a danger that economics is rigorous deduction based upon faulty assumptions. Science after science gets that way from time to… — W. Brian Arthur Copy Share Image
I favor the abolition of all Social Security, Medicare and estate taxes. In their place, we should create a simple income tax… — Ari Fleischer Copy Share Image
By such deductions the law of gravitation is rendered probable, that every particle attracts every other particle with a force which varies… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
This method of deduction ... is often called "combinatory". Its usefulness is not exhausted at this stage, but it does even at… — John Chadwick Copy Share Image
With money we really fool ourselves. We are our biggest enemies with money and there are some things we can do about… — Dan Ariely Copy Share Image
This is an age of intellectual sauces, of essence, of distillation. We have conclusions without deductions, abridgments of history and abridgments of… — Benjamin Haydon Copy Share Image
In the one instance, the dreamerloses sight of this object in a wilderness of deductions and suggestionsuntilhe finds the incitamentum, or first… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
Any photograph has multiple meanings: indeed, to see something in the form of a photograph is to encounter a potential object of… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
The mathematician starts with a few propositions, the proof of which is so obvious that they are called self-evident, and the rest… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
The knowledge of Natural-History, being Observation of Matters of Fact, is more certain than most others, and in my slender Opinion, less… — Hans Sloane Copy Share Image
Science as we now understand the word is of later birth. If its germinal origin may be traced to the early period… — George Henry Lewes Copy Share Image
A detective novel should contain no long descriptive passages, no literary dallying with side-issues, no subtly worked-out character analyses, no 'atmospheric' preoccupations.… — S. S. Van Dine Copy Share Image
I'm not a detective from Baker Street or an old lady who solves crimes while she's knitting in an easy chair. I'm… — Mizuki Nomura Copy Share Image
It seems safe to look forward to the time when the conception of attractive and repulsive forces, having served its purpose as… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
If Hillary [Clinton] is elected, is she going to be able to jack up taxes with virtually no deductions, and include capital… — Gary Shilling Copy Share Image
I should have more faith," he said; "I ought to know by this time that when a fact appears opposed to a… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
If, occasionally, historical evidence does not square with formulated laws, it should be remembered that a law is but a deduction from… — Immanuel Velikovsky Copy Share Image
Model building is the art of selecting those aspects of a process that are relevant to the question being asked. As with… — John Henry Holland Copy Share Image
Knowledge is the accumulation of facts wisdom is the deduction from these facts of useful laws, a process which can only take… — Vera Stanley Alder Copy Share Image
Unless the structure of the nucleus has a surprise in store for us, the conclusion seems plain — there is nothing in… — Arthur Eddington Copy Share Image
There is no reason why the profoundest thoughts should not make easy and exciting reading. A profound thought is an exciting thing… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
If I had in me something that inspires people towards the good and raises them one step on the ladder of mental… — Ameen Rihani Copy Share Image
There is synthesis when, in combining therein judgments that are made known to us from simpler relations, one deduces judgments from them… — Andre-Marie Ampere Copy Share Image
Wherever Mathematics is mixed up with anything, which is outside its field, you will find attempts to demonstrate these merely conventional propositions… — Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi Copy Share Image
The New Atheists are not open or willing to go where the evidence leads, unless that evidence sustains their own naturalistic assumptions.… — Ravi Zacharias Copy Share Image
Unlike every other retirement vehicle, such as IRAs and 401(k)s, you receive a tax deduction for making contributions to your HSA but… — Paul Zane Pilzer Copy Share Image
The supreme task of the physicist is to arrive at those universal elementary laws from which the cosmos can be built up… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Paradox is the sharpest scalpel in the satchel of science. Nothing concentrates the mind as effectively, regardless of whether it pits two… — Hans Christian von Baeyer Copy Share Image
Imposing a $10,000 cap on SALT deductions has nothing to do with thoughtful tax policy. It's simply an attack on New Jersey… — Mikie Sherrill Copy Share Image