Quotes About Deduction

When you eliminate the impossible, all that remains, however improbable, must be the truth.' That's Spock in Star Trek VI, but he's paraphrasing Sherlock Holmes.

I think we have to consider every possibility. 'When you eliminate the impossible, all that remains, however improbable, must be the truth.

When you eliminate the impossible, all that remains, however improbable, must be the truth.

Watching tape is key. I basically watch every game. It's the only way to break down your opponents.

From a drop of water a logician could infer the possibility of an Atlantic or a Niagara without having seen or heard of one or the other.

Don't confuse evidence with a conclusion.

We do not learn by inference and deduction and the application of mathematics to philosophy, but by direct intercourse and sympathy.

It cannot be denied that he has had many exceptional ideas, and that he is a highly intelligent man. For my part, however, I have always been taught to take a broad overview of things, in order to be able to deduce from them general rules, which might be applicable elsewhere.

About Pierre de Fermat] It cannot be denied that he has had many exceptional ideas, and that he is a highly intelligent man. For my part, however, I have always been taught to take a broad overview of things, in order to be able to deduce from them general rules, which might be applicable elsewhere.

The two operations of our understanding, intuition and deduction, on which alone we have said we must rely in the acquisition of knowledge.

With me, everything turns into mathematics.

Would you mind removing your hat, Miss Dunn? I deduce the thing is a hat, because it's on your head. Thank you. I don't like restaurant conventions in my dining room.

How do we know that?" Lucy was frowning. "By inference. She did not attach a piece of paper to a blanket with a bare pin and wrap the blanket around the baby.

In one recorded case, the English speaker said "I assume," the French interpreter translated it as "I deduce," and this was rendered by the Russian as "I consider"—by which time the idea of assumption had been lost!

Euclid taught me that without assumptions there is no proof. Therefore, in any argument, examine the assumptions.

Passion makes the best observations and the sorriest conclusions.

Speculation,' I retorted, 'is never a waste of time. It clears away the deadwood in the thickets of deduction.

I am here on business." "Indeed," I said. "Indeed?" Emerson's echo held a questioning note; but in fact I had already deduced the nature of the lady's business. Emerson calls this jumping to conclusions. I call it simple logic.

Along came a police lieutenant named Columbo, and my life would never be the same.

In particular the rules of logic tell us how to create, from the opening arrangement (the list of axioms), new arrangements (called "theorems").

No wonder Sherlock Holmes did all that coke. Math is hard.

We do not learn by inference and deduction and the application of mathematics to philosophy, but by direct intercourse and sympathy.

If perception is not absolute, no deduction from perception can be absolute. No matter how ingeniously one juggles with approximations, they do not magically turn into certainties; at best, they become the most accurate possible approximations.

As the great physicist Max Planck put it, scientists "must have a vivid intuitive imagination, for new ideas are not generated by deduction, but by an artistically creative imagination.