Chickens Quote by Bertrand Russell

I think some intuition leaks out in every step of an induction proof.

— Jim Propp

“Since the whole point of inductive reasoning is to draw sweeping assumptions based on limited evidence, it is an outstanding machine for generating stereotypes.…

— Kathryn Schulz

The man who has fed the chicken every day throughout its life at last wrings its neck instead, showing that more refined views as…

— Bertrand Russell

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

— John Stuart Mill

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

— Nabeel Qureshi

Why did the chicken cross the road? To prove to the possum that it could be done.

— S. Truett Cathy

The validity of all the Inductive Methods depends on the assumption that every event, or the beginning of every phenomenon, must have some cause;…

— John Stuart Mill

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

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

Finding a mechanism does not bypass the problem of induction.

— Simon Blackburn

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

— Morris Kline

Until the seventeenth century there was no concept of evidence with which to pose the problem of induction!

— Ian Hacking