The only hope [of science] ... is in genuine induction.

“The hope is that science gives us objective truth; religion, however, gives us personal meaning or personal truth. They should not be seen as…

— Richard Rohr

The hope of science is the perfection of the human race. The hope of theology is the salvation of a few, and the damnation…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

Mystics always hope that science will some day overtake them.

— Booth Tarkington

If it is a terrifying thought that life is at the mercy of the multiplication of these minute bodies [microbes], it is a consoling…

— Louis Pasteur

I can hope that this long sad story, this progression of priests and ministers and rabbis and ulamas and imams and bonzes and bodhisattvas,…

— Steven Weinberg

[Mathematics] unceasingly calls forth the faculties of observation and comparison; one of its principal weapons is induction: it has frequent recourse to trial and…

— James Joseph Sylvester

One might get the impression that I recommend a new methodology which replaces induction by counterinduction and uses a multiplicity of theories, metaphysical views,…

— Paul Feyerabend

“Nature has established patterns originating in the return of events, but only for the most part. New illnesses flood the human race, so that…

— Gottfried Leibniz

Both induction and deduction, reasoning from the particular and the general, and back again from the universal to the specific, form the essence to…

— Hans Christian von Baeyer

In every science, after having analysed the ideas, expressing the more complicated by means of the more simple, one finds a certain number that…

— Giuseppe Peano

There is nothing which an untrained mind shows itself more hopelessly incapable, than in drawing the proper general conclusions from its own experience. And…

— John Stuart Mill

Induction for deduction, with a view to construction.

— Auguste Comte

Induction makes you feel guilty for getting something out of nothing, and it is artificial, but it is one of the greatest ideas of…

— Herbert Wilf

“There’s an empty shelf here with your name and dates?” “There is. And it was beginning to sound nice. But then I got called…

— Victoria Schwab

Finding a mechanism does not bypass the problem of induction.

— Simon Blackburn