same phenomenon and concludes that the phenomenon will…

Finding a mechanism does not bypass the problem of induction.

— Simon Blackburn

The chicken noticed that the farmer came every day to feed it. It predicted that the farmer would continue to bring food every day.…

— Bertrand Russell

A great part of its theories derives an additional charm from the peculiarity that important propositions, with the impress of simplicity on them, are…

— Carl Friedrich Gauss

On teacher education: induction into current mandates must not turn into seduction away from best practice.

— Andy Hargreaves

“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

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

— Francis Bacon

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

[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

“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

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

Induction for deduction, with a view to construction.

— Auguste Comte

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

I am convinced that it is impossible to expound the methods of induction in a sound manner, without resting them upon the theory of…

— William Stanley Jevons