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
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
Few of us ever test our powers of deduction, except when filling out an income tax form — Laurence J. Peter Copy Share Image
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 poet uses the results of science and philosophy, and generalizes their widest deductions. — Henry David Thoreau 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
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
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
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
These long chains of perfectly simple and easy reasonings by means of which geometers are accustomed to carry out their most difficult… — Rene Descartes Copy Share Image
I presume that few who have paid any attention to the history of the Mathematical Analysis, will doubt that it has been… — George Boole Copy Share Image
To give a causal explanation of an event means to deduce a statement which describes it, using as premises of the deduction… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
As Stephen Jay Gould pointed out in Time, in no other Western country is the teaching of Evolution regarded as controversial. Throughout… — Katha Pollitt 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
“I said that he was my superior in observation and deduction. If the art of the detective began and ended in reasoning… — Arthur Conan Doyle 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
We also need the provisions in the tax bill that will permit working mothers to increase the deduction from income tax liability… — John F. Kennedy 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
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
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
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
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
It seems that scientists are often attracted to beautiful theories in the way that insects are attracted to flowers — not by… — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
Why should ANYTHING go right; even observation and deduction? Why should not good logic be as misleading as bad logic? They are… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
In philosophical terms, the opposite of rationalism is not irrationalism but empiricism, that is, a willingness to form beliefs on the basis… — John Quiggin Copy Share Image
How do you think we have the home mortgage deduction? We have it because way back when it was determined that the… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Many tax experts say a key element to any fundamental overhaul is getting rid of certain deductions for businesses - the 'special-interest… — James B. Stewart Copy Share Image
The visual can seduce you, leading to false deductions, and ultimately, even the finest ideas can be reduced. Take for example, sexuality.… — Ravi Zacharias Copy Share Image
I sometimes compare press officers to riflemen on the Somme -- mowing down wave upon wave of distortion, taking out rank upon… — Bernard Ingham Copy Share Image
I think the media plays into the hands of false induction, genuine seduction taking place, wrong deductions, and the inevitable reductions. That's… — Ravi Zacharias 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
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 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