Quotes About Deduction

I think and think for months, for years. Ninety-nine times the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.

Lieutenant Dallas has just given you a brief demonstration of why she's one of the most valuable assets of the NYPSD. She observes, deduces, and reports with accuracy.

I never get to have the fun. I bet there's hair and fiber in there, and I'll be right on the scene.

Affery, like greater people, had always been right in her facts, and always wrong in the theories she deduced from them.

Internal Revenue Service: "If you determined your tax in the earlier year by using the Schedule D Tax Worksheet, or the Qualified Dividends and Capital Gain Tax Worksheet, and you receive a refund in 2016 of a deduction claimed in that year, you will have to recompute your tax for the earlier year to determine if the recovery must be included in your income.

Every man at the bottom of his heart believes that he is a born detective.

HE WORKED IT OUT FROM FIRST PRINCIPLES ON THE WHITEBOARD

Cosmologists have plenty of ego. How could you not when your job is to deduce what brought the universe into existence?

The scientific method, which underpins these achievements, is often conveyed with formal terms that reference induction, deduction, hypothesis, and experiment. But it can be summarized in one sentence, which is all about objectivity: Do whatever it takes to avoid fooling yourself into believing that something is true when it is false, or that something is false when it is true.

I'd written my name on the blackboard, and under my name I wrote the name of the course for the would-be Sherlock Holmeses who needed more than the instructor's name and room number to be certain they were in the right place.

When you have excluded the impossible, said Sherlock Holmes, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.

I deduce nothing: according to the rules of syllogism nihil sequitur geminis ex particularibus unquam, no law can be drawn from two single facts.

I don't believe in empirical science. I only believe in a priori truth.

And talking of powers of deduction, I've just taken on an interesting new case.

To solve the Cube, you need special skills and understanding. For example, pattern recognition is very important to solve the Cube.

As Cuvier could correctly describe a whole animal by the contemplation of a single bone, so the observer who has thoroughly understood one link in a series of incidents should be able to accurately state all the other ones, both before and after.

I always had a soft spot for Sherlock Holmes and used to imagine helping him out.

Zealous men are ever displaying to you the strength of their belief. while judicious men are showing you the grounds of it.

A case was a jigsaw puzzle to him, and he never tired of shifting through the pieces.

Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time, which every day produces, and which most men throw away, but which nevertheless will make at the end of it no small deduction for the life of man.

Each spoke in her own language; neither understood the other's words; both were very watchful, and intent to deduce from look and manner, what the unintelligible words meant.

to know that an inference is deductively valid is to know that there are no situations in which the premisses are true and the conclusion is not.

All science is based on models, and every scientific model comprises three distinct stages: statement of well-defined hypotheses; deduction of all the consequences of these hypotheses, and nothing but these consequences; confrontation of these consequences with observed data.

Like everything else I believed in those days, this fantasy of working-classness was strictly theoretical. I had arrived at it by deduction. Businessmen were the working class, I reasoned, because they worked to earn their living.