Quotes About Deduction

If you would use your grey cells, and see the whole case clearly as I do, you too would perceive it, my friend.

Then,' said Poirot, 'having placed my solution before you, I have the honour to retire from the case…

Who are you? You don't belong to the police?" "I am better than the police," said Poirot. He said it without conscious arrogance. It was, to him, a simple statement of fact.

How lightly and easily you put the matter aside! Let me tell you that no matter is finished with until Hercule Poirot ceases to concern himself with it!

Mathematical reasoning may be regarded...

When I think of Sherlock Holmes, I think of a guy who can wander into the confusion of life and sort of pluck out answers at will.

I like buying clothes, especially as I get a tax-deductible allowance.

If Sherlock Holmes can survive the Reichenbach Falls, then surely we have not seen the last of Detective Sergeant John Munch.

A really good detective never gets married.

There was something dead in my heart. I tried to figure out what it was by the strength of the smell. I knew that it was not a lion or a sheep or a dog. Using logical deduction, I came to the conclusion that it was a mouse. I had a dead mouse in my heart.

I meet a man with a thousand dollars and leave him with two; that's the meaning of subtraction.

A man has one hundred dollars and you leave him with two dollars, that's subtraction.

When the impossible has been eliminated, all that remains no matter how improbable is possible.

If you play games with the law of non-contradiction, then every time you open your mouth and say anything, you're cheating. Every time you make a choice in life you're cheating.

Premise The steps of an argument that lead to the conclusion are called the premises of the argument.

God's existence cannot be deduced by reason alone.

We cannot start with God and deduce the universe from his existence; we must start with the world as we know it, and deduce God from the world.

Sherlock being the most prevalent, and they've been really good fun.

As long as you're a tax deduction, you'll always be safe in my house.

The problem with taxation is that authors can't write off whiskey as a business expense.

...I guess I can put two and two together.""Sometimes the answer's four, " I said, "and sometimes it's twenty-two...

The pioneer scientist must have "a vivid intuitive imagination, for new ideas are not generated by deduction, but by artistically creative imagination."

A negotiator should observe everything. You must be part Sherlock Holmes, part Sigmund Freud.

I am turned into a sort of machine for observing facts and grinding out conclusions.