Top Deduction Quotes

To engage the written word means to follow a line of thought, which requires considerable powers of classifying, inference-making and reasoning. It means to uncover lies, confusions, and overgeneraliz...

For the first time in a very many years, he felt the old vexation, the mingled impatience and pleasure at the world's beautiful refusal to yield up its mysteries without a fight.

Deduction Definition

(n.) Act or process of deducing or inferring.

(n.) Act of deducting or taking away; subtraction; as, the deduction of the subtrahend from the minuend.

(n.) That which is deduced or drawn from premises by a process of reasoning; an inference; a conclusion.

(n.) That which is deducted; the part taken away; abatement; as, a deduction from the yearly rent.

It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.