Quotes About Deduction

A lot of what I do is try to watch tape and understand how guys come out of breaks - what their footwork looks like, or how they look at the top of a pass route. Guys have tendencies. I try to understand what they do, which allows me to be successful.

I should have brought her up stupid, said the doctor at last. When women acquire powers of deduction there's no knowing where trouble can end.

Correct observation followed by meticulous deduction and the precise visualization of goals is vital to the success of any enterprise.

The human brain works partly on instinct and partly on deduction.

She associated English accents with singing teapots, schools for witchcraft, and the science of deduction.

She associated English accents with singing teapots, schools for witchcraft, and the science of deduction. This wasn't, she knew, terribly sophisticated of her, but she had no real guilt about it. She felt the English were themselves to blame for her feelings. They had spent a century relentlessly marketing their detectives and wizards and nannies, and they had to live with the results.

Ela associava sotaques ingleses a bules de chá cantantes, escolas de bruxaria e à ciência da dedução.

The sound of an English accent distracted her and lifted her spirits. She associated English accents with singing teapots, schools for witchcraft, and the science of deduction.

In order to understand, observe, deduce, man must first be conscious of himself as alive.

In just about every other book I can think of, we're chasing on the heels of our heroes - the spies, the soldiers, the romantics, the adventurers. But we stand shoulder to shoulder with the detective.

Je l'entends toujours. Alors que je repose mon stylographe et que je me dirige vers mon lit, je perçois l'archet qu'on tire sur le chevalet, et la musique qui s'élève dans le ciel nocturne. C'est lointain et à peine audible - mais c'est là! Un pizzicato. Un trémolo. Le style est impossible à à confondre avec un autre. C'est Sherlock Holmes. ll faut que ce soit lui. J'espère que c'est pour moi qu'il joue...

But at the same time I recalled something Holmes had said to me many times, namely that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.

Show Holmes a drop of water and he would deduce the existence of the Atlantic. Show it to me and I would look for a tap. That was the difference between us.

Capping our SALT deduction was a deliberate attempt to punish states that value quality public services.

The thing is that quite a few of my books have ended up as they are because of conversations I've had over the years with forensic scientists.

Everything you do, everything you sense and say is experiment. No deduction final. Nothing stops until dead and perhaps not even then, because each life creates endless ripples. Induction bounces within and you sensitize yourself to it. Deduction conveys illusions of absolutes. Kick the truth and shatter it!

Look, No Limit Texas Hold 'em is a game of reads, deduction and logic, and Allen Cunningham excels in each.

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.

OS AXIOMAS, EMBORA BÁSICOS PARA TODAS AS PROVAS, SÃO ELES MESMOS NÃO-PROVADOS OU ATÉ MESMO NÃO PROVÁVEIS... SE OS AXIOMAS SÃO NEGADOS, AS PROPOSIÇÕES DEDUZIDAS A PARTIR DOS AXIOMAS NÃO EXISTEM, VISTO QUE NÃO HÁ NADA A PARTIR DO QUE ELAS POSSAM SER DERIVADAS; A VALIDADE DO SISTEMA INTEIRO TORNA-SE SUSPEITO... OS AXIOMAS DE UMA PESSOA DETERMINAM OS SEUS TEOREMAS.

There can never be surprises in logic.

I needed to know more. Call it my detective's instinct. (Not for nothing has Abby nicknamed me Agatha Kristy!)

A mind is accustomed to mathematical deduction, when confronted with the faulty foundations of astrology, resists a long, long time, like an obstinate mule, until compelled by beating and curses to put its foot into that dirty puddle.

which has inspired at least one novel, Apostolos Doxiadis's Uncle Petros and Goldbach's Conjecture29).

And once again Mr. Sherlock Holmes is free to devote his life to examining those interesting little problems which the complexity of human life so pletifuly presents.