Deduction Quotes

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In philosophy, when we make use of false principles, we depart the farther from the knowledge of truth and wisdom exactly in proportion to the… — Rene Descartes
Knowledge is the accumulation of facts wisdom is the deduction from these facts of useful laws, a process which can only take place by comparing… — Vera Stanley Alder
Correct observation followed by meticulous deduction and the precise visualization of goals is vital to the success of any enterprise. — Terry Pratchett
A detective novel should contain no long descriptive passages, no literary dallying with side-issues, no subtly worked-out character analyses, no 'atmospheric' preoccupations. Such matters have… — S. S. Van Dine
The New Atheists are not open or willing to go where the evidence leads, unless that evidence sustains their own naturalistic assumptions. They have covertly… — Ravi Zacharias
These long chains of perfectly simple and easy reasonings by means of which geometers are accustomed to carry out their most difficult demonstrations had led… — Rene Descartes
There is a tradition of opposition between adherents of induction and of deduction. In my view it would be just as sensible for the two… — Alfred North Whitehead
We also need the provisions in the tax bill that will permit working mothers to increase the deduction from income tax liability for costs incurred… — John F. Kennedy
You can't remember sex. You can remember the fact of it, and recall the setting, and even the details, but the sex of the sex… — E L Doctorow
No amount of reading and intelligent deduction could supplant the direct experience. — John Fowles
The great changes in civilisation and society have been wrought by deeply held beliefs and passion rather than by a process of rational deduction. — Paul Keating
Induction for deduction, with a view to construction. — Auguste Comte
If your biggest tax deduction was bail money, you might be a redneck. — Jeff Foxworthy
Indeed, if a chief question does remain: how is the power to think possible? - The power to think right and left, before and without,… — Johann Georg Hamann
If we believe that Jesus of Nazareth is the only begotten Son of God and that He came into this world and went to the… — Martyn
Intuition is the undoubting conception of a pure and attentive mind, which arises from the light of reason alone, and is more certain than deduction. — Rene Descartes
Intellect begins with the observation of nature, proceeds to memorize and classify the facts thus observed, and by logical deduction builds up that edifice of… — Herbert Read
The pioneer scientist must have "a vivid intuitive imagination, for new ideas are not generated by deduction, but by artistically creative imagination." — Max Planck
When we find that God's ways always coincide with our own ways, it's time to question who we're really worshipping, God or ourselves. The latter… — Criss Jami
The two operations of our understanding, intuition and deduction, on which alone we have said we must rely in the acquisition of knowledge. — Rene Descartes

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