"The deductive method is the mode of using knowledge, and the inductive method the mode of acquiring it."

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Source : Henry Mayhew (1851). “London Labour and the London Poor: A Cyclopaedia of the Condition and Earnings of Those that Will Work, Those that Cannot Work, and Those that Will Not Work”, p.158

Henry Mayhew

“You know how as a kid you picture yourself with a tall, handsome husband, and you imagine him cuddling your baby? Ben is like that, like, on crack.”
“The name of the game is no-limit Texas Hold'em, the game that takes a minute to learn but a lifetime to master.”
“I don't really comment on my personal life because I feel like any comment at all is opening up a whole can of worms. I'd just rather not talk about who I'm dating.”
“I'm interested in that thing that happens where there's a breaking point for some people and not for others. You go through such hardship, things that are almost impossibly difficult, and there's no sign that it's going to get any better, and that's the point when people quit. But some don't.”
“Arsenal's defence will be a worry going forward”
“Be amusing: never tell unkind stories; above all, never tell long ones.”
“It's quite literally true that we are star dust, in the highest exalted way one can use that phrase. ...I bask in the majesty of the cosmos. I use words, compose sentences that sound like the sentences I hear out of people that had revelation of Jesus, who go on their pilgrimages to Mecca.”
“In high school I was on the basketball team, but the coach did something I didn't dig and the next day he looked up and saw me practising with the football team.”

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