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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
When I began my career as a cosmologist some twenty years ago, I was a convinced atheist. I never in my wildest… — Frank J. Tipler Copy Share Image
I'd rather be an adviser. I don't wanna become a trainer because I think with the knowledge and the business sense that… — Bernard Hopkins 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
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
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 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
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
The law, right now, permits companies that close down American factories and offices and move those jobs overseas to take a tax… — Sheldon Whitehouse Copy Share Image
Paraphrase, in the sense of summary, is as indispensable to the novel-critic as close analysis is to the critic of lyric poetry.… — David Lodge 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
Last year I had difficulty with my income tax. I tried to take my analyst off as a business deduction. The Government… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
I understand that the legal position is under review in South Africa and that there will soon be a broader set of… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
The deduction of effect from cause is often blocked by some insuperable extrinsic obstacle: the true causes may be quite unknown. Nowhere… — Carl von Clausewitz Copy Share Image
Intellect begins with the observation of nature, proceeds to memorize and classify the facts thus observed, and by logical deduction builds up… — Herbert Read Copy Share Image
A mind is accustomed to mathematical deduction, when confronted with the faulty foundations of astrology, resists a long, long time, like an… — Johannes Kepler Copy Share Image
As a science, logic institutes an analysis of the process of the mind in reasoning, and investigating the principles on which argumentation… — Richard Whately Copy Share Image
Jesse Jackson's in trouble. They're going after this tax thing. Jesse said he will amend his taxes to show the money that… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
Both induction and deduction, reasoning from the particular and the general, and back again from the universal to the specific, form the… — Hans Christian von Baeyer Copy Share Image
Good hitters don't just go up and swing. They always have a plan. Call it an educated deduction. You visualize. You're like… — Dave Winfield Copy Share Image
In the beginning (if there was such a thing), God created Newton's laws of motion together with the necessary masses and forces.… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Thinking is seeing… Every human science is based on deduction, which is a slow process of seeing by which we work up… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
What has not been clear is that the potential of this emergency-born technology has always accrued to human's prewar individual initiatives taken… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
Democracy is not a mathematical deduction proved once and for all time. Democracy is a just faith fervently held, commitment to be… — Jack Kemp Copy Share Image
In every science, after having analysed the ideas, expressing the more complicated by means of the more simple, one finds a certain… — Giuseppe Peano Copy Share Image
When it happeneth that a man signifieth unto us two contradictory opinions whereof the one is clearly and directly signified, andthe other… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image