Deductions Quotes - Page 2

• Detection is, or ought to be, an exact science, and should be treated in the same cold and unemotional manner.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Cold, Should, Unemotional

  The Sign of the Four ch. 1 (1890)

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• Nothing clears up a case so much as stating it to another person.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Literature, Holmes, Cases

  Arthur Conan Doyle, General Press (2016). “The Complete Sherlock Holmes: All 56 Stories & 4 Novels”, p.206, GENERAL PRESS

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• You can't remember sex. You can remember the fact of it, and recall the setting, and even the details, but the sex of the sex cannot be remembered, the substantive truth of it, it is by nature self-erasing, you can remember its anatomy and be left with a judgment as to the degree of your liking of it, but whatever it is as a splurge of being, as a loss, as a charge of the conviction of love stopping your heart like your execution, there is no memory of it in the brain, only the deduction that it happened and that time passed, leaving you with a silhouette that you want to fill in again.

  E. L. Doctorow

  Sex, Memories, Heart

  "Billy Bathgate". Book by E. L. Doctorow, 1989.

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• We also need the provisions in the tax bill that will permit working mothers to increase the deduction from income tax liability for costs incurred in providing care for their children while the mothers are working. In October the Commission on the Status of Women will report to me. This problem should have a high priority, and I think that whatever we leave undone this year we must move on this in January.

  John F. Kennedy

  Mother, Children, Moving

  Kennedy, John F. (1964). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1963”, p.465, Best Books on

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• At first it seems obvious, but the more you think about it the stranger the deductions from this axiom seem to become; in the end you cease to understand what is meant by it.

  Bertrand Russell

  Math, Thinking, Understanding

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• There is synthesis when, in combining therein judgments that are made known to us from simpler relations, one deduces judgments from them relative to more complicated relations.
  There is analysis when from a complicated truth one deduces more simple truths.

  Andre-Marie Ampere

  Truth, Science, Simple

  "André-Marie Ampère: Enlightenment and Electrodynamics". Book by James R. Hofmann, p. 158, 1996.

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• The New Atheists are not open or willing to go where the evidence leads, unless that evidence sustains their own naturalistic assumptions. They have covertly reduced all philosophical thought and deduction to-- ironically-fait h!

  Ravi Zacharias

  Atheist, Philosophical, Assumption

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• They say that genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains," he remarked with a smile. "It's a very bad definition, but it does apply to detective work.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Pain, Doe, Detective Work

  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2013). “Collected Works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Delphi Classics)”, p.40, Delphi Classics

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• In every science, after having analysed the ideas, expressing the more complicated by means of the more simple, one finds a certain number that cannot be reduced among them, and that one can define no further. These are the primitive ideas of the science; it is necessary to acquire them through experience, or through induction; it is impossible to explain them by deduction.

  Giuseppe Peano

  Mean, Simple, Ideas

  "The Mathematical Philosophy of Giuseppe Peano". Philosophy of Science Vol. 30, No. 3, July 1963.

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• Still, it is an error to argue in front of your data. You find yourself insensibly twisting them round to fit your theories.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Errors, Data, Finding Yourself

  "Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Stories".

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• After reading Edgar Allan Poe. Something the critics have not noticed: a new literary world pointing to the literature of the 20th Century. Scientific miracles, fables on the pattern A+ B, a clear-sighted, sickly literature. No more poetry but analytic fantasy. Something monomaniacal. Things playing a more important part than people; love giving away to deductions and other forms of ideas, style, subject and interest. The basis of the novel transferred from the heart to the head, from the passion to the idea, from the drama to the denouement.

  Jules de Goncourt

  Drama, Reading, Passion

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• In the study of ideas, it is necessary to remember that insistence on hard-headed clarity issues from sentimental feeling, as it were a mist, cloaking the perplexities of fact. Insistence on clarity at all costs is based on sheer superstition as to the mode in which human intelligence functions. Our reasonings grasp at straws for premises and float on gossamers for deductions.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Math, Ideas, Issues

  Alfred North Whitehead (1967). “Adventures of Ideas”, p.72, Simon and Schuster

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

  Terry Pratchett

  Goal, Meticulous, Observation

  Terry Pratchett (2009). “The Carpet People”, p.7, Random House

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• I'd rather be an adviser. I don't wanna become a trainer because I think with the knowledge and the business sense that I've accomplished through my career and have credibility, why would I reduce myself down to being in a gym with a bunch of training which is not a bad thing to give advice, but I can do that with a suit and tie on and also be there when the cheques are written. I don't wanna be there when the cheques are handed down from 3 or 4 people's hands and then it hits mine as a trainer because 9/10 times, deductions have come out of that.

  Bernard Hopkins

  Motivation, Thinking, Hands

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• There is nothing in which deduction is so necessary as in religion," said he, leaning with his back against the shutters. "It can be built up as an exact science by the reasoner. Our highest assurance of the goodness of Providence seems to me to rest in the flowers. All other things, our powers, our desires, our food, are all really necessary for our existence in the first instance. But this rose is an extra. Its smell and its colour are an embellishment of life, not a condition of it. It is only goodness which gives extras, and so I say again that we have much to hope from the flowers.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Flower, Smell, Rose

  "The Naval Treaty" (1893)

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• Where did I get it from? Was it by reason that I attained to the knowledge that I must love my neighbour and not throttle him? They told me so when I was a child, and I gladly believed it, because they told me what was already in my soul. But who discovered it? Not reason! Reason has discovered the struggle for existence and the law that I must throttle all those who hinder the satisfaction of my desires. That is the deduction reason makes. But the law of loving others could not be discovered by reason, because it is unreasonable.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Children, Struggle, Law

  "The Complete Works of Leo Tolstoy".

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• In philosophy, when we make use of false principles, we depart the farther from the knowledge of truth and wisdom exactly in proportion to the care with which we cultivate them, and apply ourselves to the deduction of diverse consequences from them, thinking that we are philosophizing well, while we are only departing the farther from the truth; from which it must be inferred that they who have learned the least of all that has been hitherto distinguished by the name of philosophy are the most fitted for the apprehension of truth.

  Rene Descartes

  Philosophy, Thinking, Names

  "The Principles of Philosophy".

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• This is an age of intellectual sauces, of essence, of distillation. We have conclusions without deductions, abridgments of history and abridgments of science without leading facts. We have animals for literature, Cabinet Encyclopaedias, Family Libraries, Diffusion Societies, and heaven knows what else! What is all this for? Not to add knowledge to the learned, but to tell points to the ignorant, without giving them the trouble to acquire the links. Oh! it is sad work. And the result will be injurious to all classes.

  Benjamin Haydon

  Animal, Essence, Class

  Benjamin Robert Haydon, Frederick Wordsworth Haydon (1876). “Correspondence and Table-talk: With a Memoir”, p.450

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• A detective novel should contain no long descriptive passages, no literary dallying with side-issues, no subtly worked-out character analyses, no 'atmospheric' preoccupations. Such matters have no vital place in a record of crime and deduction. They hold up the action and introduce issues irrelevant to the main purpose, which is to state a problem, analyze it, and bring it to a successful conclusion. To be sure, there must be a sufficient descriptiveness and character delineation to give the novel verisimilitude.

  S. S. Van Dine

  Character, Successful, Issues

  S. S. Van Dine (2015). “Twenty Rules For Writing Detective Stories”, p.6, Booklassic

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• Good hitters don't just go up and swing. They always have a plan. Call it an educated deduction. You visualize. You're like a good negotiator. You know what you have, you know what he has, then you try to work it out.

  Dave Winfield

  Baseball, Swings, Trying

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Taxes are paid in the sweat of every man who labors. If those taxes are excessive, they are reflected in idle factories, in tax-sold farms, and in hordes of hungry people, tramping the streets and seeking jobs in vain. Our workers may never see a tax bill, but they pay. They pay in deductions from wages, in increased cost of what they buy, or - as now - in broad unemployment throughout the land.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Jobs, Men, Land

  "Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1937, Volume 6".

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• And now, without having wearied my friends, I hope, with detailed scientific accounts, theories, or deductions, I will only say that I have endeavoured to tell just the story of the adventure itself.

  Joshua Slocum

  Travel, Adventure, Stories

  Joshua Slocum (2007). “Sailing Alone: Around the World”, p.188, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• He did not arrive at this conclusion by the decent process of quiet, logical deduction, nor yet by the blinding flash of glorious intuition, but by the shoddy, untidy process halfway between the two by which one usually gets to know things.

  Margery Allingham

  Two, Intuition, Quiet

  Margery Allingham (2016). “Margery Allingham Box Set 2: Flowers for the Judge, Death of a Ghost, and The Case of the Late Pig”, p.120, Ipso Books

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• The foundations of population genetics were laid chiefly by mathematical deduction from basic premises contained in the works of Mendel and Morgan and their followers. Haldane, Wright, and Fisher are the pioneers of population genetics whose main research equipment was paper and ink rather than microscopes, experimental fields, Drosophila bottles, or mouse cages. Theirs is theoretical biology at its best, and it has provided a guiding light for rigorous quantitative experimentation and observation.

  Theodosius Dobzhansky

  Science, Light, Ink

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• Why should ANYTHING go right; even observation and deduction? Why should not good logic be as misleading as bad logic? They are both movements in the brain of a bewildered ape?

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Brain, Anything Goes, Movement

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.22, Simon and Schuster

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