Any Quote by Benjamin N. Cardozo

Science sometimes improves hypotheses and sometimes disproves them. But proof would be another matter and perhaps never occurs except in the realms of totally…

— Gregory Bateson

Induction is a process of inference; it proceeds from the known to the unknown.

— John Stuart Mill

“One attempt to avoid the problem of induction involves weakening the demand that scientific knowledge be proven true, and resting content with the claim…

— Alan F. Chalmers

“same phenomenon and concludes that the phenomenon will always occur. Conclusions obtained by induction seem well warranted”

— Morris Kline

“Even science is inductive, relying on observations and best explanations, not always deductive conclusions.”

— Nabeel Qureshi

“In experimental philosophy we are to look upon propositions inferred by general induction from phenomena as accurately or very nearly true, notwithstanding any contrary…

— Issac Newton

In experimental philosophy, propositions gathered from phenomena by induction should be considered either exactly or very nearly true notwithstanding any contrary hypotheses, until yet…

— Isaac Newton

“We may put it in this way: Deduction depends on Induction, if general propositions are only known to us through the facts: Induction depends…

— Carveth Read

Now this principle of induction cannot be a purely logical truth like a tautology or an analytic statement. . . .

— Karl Popper

If we have no idea why a statement is true, we can still prove it by induction.

— Gian-Carlo Rota

There is a tradition of opposition between adherents of induction and of deduction. In my view it would be just as sensible for the…

— Alfred North Whitehead

In experimental philosophy, we are to look upon propositions inferred by general induction from phenomena as accurately or very nearly true, notwithstanding any contrary…

— Isaac Newton