It was quite elementary,' returned the detective with a…

“You look at me as if I were a conjuror,' Holmes remarked, with a laugh.”

— Anthony Horowitz

I must begin with a good body of facts and not from a principle (in which I always suspect some fallacy) and then as…

— Charles Darwin

You also get a deduction in America for taking a night school course, growing sugarcane, moving to a new city for a job, replanting…

— T.R. Reid

“It cannot be denied that he has had many exceptional ideas, and that he is a highly intelligent man. For my part, however, I…

— René Descartes

“Dullards would have you believe that once you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth... but to a mathematical…

— Kim Newman

“There's also a possibility that the landlord is in there right now, wearing women's undergarments. Or a drug addict is inside stealing jewelry.Or a…

— Derek B. Miller

Deduction, which takes us from the general proposition to facts again-teaches us, if I may so say, to anticipate from the ticket what is…

— Thomas Huxley

“There is nothing distinctively scientific about the hypothetico-deductive process. It is not even distinctively intellectual. It is merely a scientific context for a much…

— Peter B. Medawar

“The sensible man,' Crow had said (to Sherlock Holmes), 'don't look to confirm what he already knows -- he looks to deny it. Finding…

— Andrew Lane

Unlike every other retirement vehicle, such as IRAs and 401(k)s, you receive a tax deduction for making contributions to your HSA but don't have…

— Paul Zane Pilzer

If you ask any economist, they'll tell you all the mortgage interest deduction does is raise the price of the house. So a couple…

— T.R. Reid

“What a lovely thing a rose is!" He walked past the couch to the open window and held up the drooping stalk of a…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

No amount of reading and intelligent deduction could supplant the direct experience.

— John Fowles

Even tax breaks that are supposed to help the middle class too often skew toward the wealthy. Consider the mortgage interest deduction. While political…

— Dee Dee Myers

Induction for deduction, with a view to construction.

— Auguste Comte