Deductions Quotes - Page 7

• 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.

  Richard Brautigan

  Dog, Heart, Sheep

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• It is a mistake to confound strangeness with mystery. The most commonplace crime is often the most mysterious because it presents no new or special features from which deductions may be drawn. This murder would have been infinitely more difficult to unravel had the body of the victim been simply found lying in the roadway without any of those outré and sensational accompaniments which have rendered it remarkable. These strange details, far from making the case more difficult, have really had the effect of making it less so.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Mistake, Lying, Special

  Study in Scarlet (1888) ch. 7

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• Deduction, which takes us from the general proposition to facts again-teaches us, if I may so say, to anticipate from the ticket what is inside the bundle.

  Thomas Huxley

  Science, May, Facts

  Thomas Henry Huxley (1872). “Lay Sermons, Addresses, and Reviews”, p.83

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