Deductive-reasoning Quote by Arthur Conan Doyle

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

“What was the Sherlock Holmes principle? ‘Once you have discounted the impossible, then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.’ ” “I reject…

— Douglas Adams

“I had no keener pleasure than in following Holmes in his professional investigations, and in admiring the rapid deductions, as swift as intuitions, and…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

“We may put it in this way: Deduction depends on Induction, if general propositions are only known to us through the facts: Induction depends…

— Carveth Read

“What was it Sherlock Holmes said about theories?” “‘It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data,’” I rattled off. And as…

— Donna Andrews

“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

“I never guess. It is a shocking habit—destructive to the logical faculty.1 —SHERLOCK HOLMES, IN SIGN OF THE FOUR”

— Nat Greene

“from a contradiction you may deduce everything”

— Janna Levin

“If you eliminate all other possibilities, whatever remains must be the truth." Sherlock Holmes”

— Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

This method of deduction ... is often called "combinatory". Its usefulness is not exhausted at this stage, but it does even at the outset…

— John Chadwick

The world of 'Sherlock Holmes' and the world that we live in now is big enough to take more than one interpretation.

— Benedict Cumberbatch

“One should always look for a possible alternative, and provide against it. -Sherlock Holmes”

— Sir Arthur Conan Doyle