Insight is not the same as scientific deduction, but even…

Induction for deduction, with a view to construction.

— Auguste Comte

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

I presume that few who have paid any attention to the history of the Mathematical Analysis, will doubt that it has been developed in…

— George Boole

It seems that scientists are often attracted to beautiful theories in the way that insects are attracted to flowers — not by logical deduction,…

— Steven Weinberg

Any photograph has multiple meanings: indeed, to see something in the form of a photograph is to encounter a potential object of fascination. The…

— Susan Sontag

If, occasionally, historical evidence does not square with formulated laws, it should be remembered that a law is but a deduction from experience and…

— Immanuel Velikovsky

These long chains of perfectly simple and easy reasonings by means of which geometers are accustomed to carry out their most difficult demonstrations had…

— Rene Descartes

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

— John Fowles

For chemistry is no science form'd à priori; 'tis no production of the human mind, framed by reasoning and deduction: it took its rise…

— Herman Boerhaave

when you fall in love, you must fall in love with a man the way he is now, because marriage won't change anything, except…

— Kathie Lee Gifford

All deductions having been made, democracy has done less harm, and more good, than any other form of government. It gave to human existence…

— Will Durant

I should have more faith," he said; "I ought to know by this time that when a fact appears opposed to a long train…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

When I began my career as a cosmologist some twenty years ago, I was a convinced atheist. I never in my wildest dreams imagined…

— Frank J. Tipler

There is no reason why the profoundest thoughts should not make easy and exciting reading. A profound thought is an exciting thing as exciting…

— Eric Hoffer

The mathematician starts with a few propositions, the proof of which is so obvious that they are called self-evident, and the rest of his…

— Thomas Huxley