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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,… — A. R. Ammons
• He did not arrive at this conclusion by the decent process of quiet, logical deduction, nor yet by the blinding… — 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… — Theodosius Dobzhansky
• Science, in its ultimate ideal, consists of a set of propositions arranged in a hierarchy, the lowest level of the… — Bertrand Russell
• But instinct is something which transcends knowledge. We have, undoubtedly, certain finer fibers that enable us to perceive truths when… — Nikola Tesla
• For chemistry is no science form'd à priori; 'tis no production of the human mind, framed by reasoning and deduction:… — Herman Boerhaave
• In the beginning (if there was such a thing), God created Newton's laws of motion together with the necessary masses… — Albert Einstein
• Deduction, which takes us from the general proposition to facts again-teaches us, if I may so say, to anticipate from… — Thomas Huxley
• A mind is accustomed to mathematical deduction, when confronted with the faulty foundations of astrology, resists a long, long time,… — Johannes Kepler
• The supreme task of the physicist is to arrive at those universal elementary laws from which the cosmos can be… — Albert Einstein
• To give a causal explanation of an event means to deduce a statement which describes it, using as premises of… — Karl Popper

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