Deductions Quotes

As long as you're a tax deduction, you'll always be safe in my house.

— George Lopez

Every American worker should be able to save for retirement via payroll deductions.

— Richard Thaler

Induction for deduction, with a view to construction.

— Auguste Comte

Our reasonings grasp at straws for premises and float on gossamers for deductions.

— Alfred North Whitehead

A Tax Loophole: A deduction that the other guy gets.

— Malcolm Forbes

There is nothing like first-hand evidence.

— Arthur Conan Doyle

If your biggest tax deduction was bail money, you might be a redneck.

— Jeff Foxworthy

Observation and experiment for gathering material, induction and deduction for elaborating it: these are are only good intellectual tools.

— Francis Bacon

The pioneer scientist must have "a vivid intuitive imagination, for new ideas are not generated by deduction, but by artistically creative imagination."

— Max Planck

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

Intuition is the undoubting conception of a pure and attentive mind, which arises from the light of reason alone, and is more…

— Rene Descartes

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

— Charles Darwin

It is a capital mistake to theorize before you have all the evidence. It biases the judgment.

— Arthur Conan Doyle

I think I may have been the only person to be rewarded charitably and get a tax deduction for swearing on film!

— Hugh Jackman

Few of us ever test our powers of deduction, except when filling out an income tax form

— Laurence J. Peter

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

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

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

At first it seems obvious, but the more you think about it the stranger the deductions from this axiom seem to become;…

— Bertrand Russell

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

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

Whether sociology can ever become a full-fledged "science" (a description of a class of events predictable on the basis of deductions from…

— Anatol Rapoport

Why I've advocated a proportional tax system. You make $10 billion, you pay a billion. You make $10, you pay one. And…

— Benjamin Carson

In the study of ideas, it is necessary to remember that insistence on hard-headed clarity issues from sentimental feeling, as it were…

— Alfred North Whitehead

A man who does not endeavour to seem more than he is will generally be thought nothing of. We habitually make such…

— William Hazlitt

Taxes are paid in the sweat of every man who labors. If those taxes are excessive, they are reflected in idle factories,…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

...We then examine a particular coding system in DNA and discover that UI [universal information] is conveyed within the genes. Using this…

— Werner Gitt

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

— Herman Boerhaave

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

— Will Durant

It is difficult to distinguish deduction from what in other circumstances is called problem-solving. And concept learning, inference, and reasoning by analogy…

— Frank Smith

You can't remember sex. You can remember the fact of it, and recall the setting, and even the details, but the sex…

— E. L. Doctorow

The poet uses the results of science and philosophy, and generalizes their widest deductions.

— Henry David Thoreau

Note that venerable proverb: Children and fools always speak the truth. The deduction is plain: adults and wise persons never speak it.

— Mark Twain

Faith is the assent to any proposition not made out by the deduction of reason but upon the credit of the proposer.

— John Locke

Insight is not the same as scientific deduction, but even at that it may be more reliable than statistics.

— Anthony Standen

The Cat was a creature of absolute convictions, and his faith in his deductions never varied.

— Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman

A trembling in the bones may carry a more convincing testimony than the dry documented deductions of the brain.

— Llewellyn Powers

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

— Thomas Huxley

Whatever lies beyond the limits of experience, and claims another origin than that of induction and deduction from established data, is illegitimate.

— George Henry Lewes

There is a tradition of opposition between adherents of induction and of deduction. In my view it would be just as sensible…

— Alfred North Whitehead