Deduction Quotes

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A poem generated by its own laws may be unrealized and bad in terms of so-called objective principles of taste, judgement, deduction. — A. R. Ammons
He did not arrive at this conclusion by the decent process of quiet, logical deduction, nor yet by the blinding flash of glorious intuition, but… — Margery Allingham
Observation and experiment for gathering material, induction and deduction for elaborating it: these are are only good intellectual tools. — Francis Bacon
The foundations of population genetics were laid chiefly by mathematical deduction from basic premises contained in the works of Mendel and Morgan and their followers.… — Theodosius Dobzhansky
Science, in its ultimate ideal, consists of a set of propositions arranged in a hierarchy, the lowest level of the hierarchy being concerned with particular… — Bertrand Russell
But instinct is something which transcends knowledge. We have, undoubtedly, certain finer fibers that enable us to perceive truths when logical deduction, or any other… — Nikola Tesla
For chemistry is no science form'd Ã priori; 'tis no production of the human mind, framed by reasoning and deduction: it took its rise from… — Herman Boerhaave
In the beginning (if there was such a thing), God created Newton's laws of motion together with the necessary masses and forces. This is all;… — Albert Einstein
Deduction, which takes us from the general proposition to facts again-teaches us, if I may so say, to anticipate from the ticket what is inside… — Thomas Huxley
A mind is accustomed to mathematical deduction, when confronted with the faulty foundations of astrology, resists a long, long time, like an obstinate mule, until… — Johannes Kepler
Few of us ever test our powers of deduction, except when filling out an income tax form — Laurence J. Peter
The supreme task of the physicist is to arrive at those universal elementary laws from which the cosmos can be built up by pure deduction.… — Albert Einstein
To give a causal explanation of an event means to deduce a statement which describes it, using as premises of the deduction one or more… — Karl Popper
Any photograph has multiple meanings: indeed, to see something in the form of a photograph is to encounter a potential object of fascination. The ultimate… — Susan Sontag
The law, right now, permits companies that close down American factories and offices and move those jobs overseas to take a tax deduction for the… — Sheldon Whitehouse
Why should ANYTHING go right; even observation and deduction? Why should not good logic be as misleading as bad logic? They are both movements in… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
In every science, after having analysed the ideas, expressing the more complicated by means of the more simple, one finds a certain number that cannot… — Giuseppe Peano
It seems that scientists are often attracted to beautiful theories in the way that insects are attracted to flowers â€” not by logical deduction, but… — Steven Weinberg
In philosophical terms, the opposite of rationalism is not irrationalism but empiricism, that is, a willingness to form beliefs on the basis of experience rather… — John Quiggin
Note that venerable proverb: Children and fools always speak the truth. The deduction is plain: adults and wise persons never speak it. — Mark Twain

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