Deductive Quotes

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Now this foreknowledge cannot be elicited from spirits; it cannot be obtained inductively from experience, nor by any deductive calculation. — Sun Tzu
Without deductive logic science would be entirely useless. It is merely a barren game to ascend from the particular to the general, unless afterwards we… — Alfred North Whitehead
Mathematics is not a deductive science-that's a clichÃ©. When you try to prove a theorem, you don't just list the hypotheses, and then start to… — Paul Halmos
...it is absurd to try to confine our knowledge and belief to matters which are conclusively established by sound deductive arguments. The demand for certainty… — J. L. Mackie
Whoever builds his faith exclusively on demonstrative proofs and deductive arguments, builds a faith on which it is impossible to rely. For he is affected… — Ibn Arabi
The intellectual equipment needed for the job of the future is an ability to define problems, quickly assimilate relevant data, conceptualize and reorganize the information,… — Robert Reich
Facts - behind them lies the whole fabric of deductive truth. — Peter Sellers
Mathematics - this may surprise or shock some - is never deductive in creation. — Paul Halmos
Mathematics is not a deductive science, that's a clichÃ© ... What you do is trial and error, experimentation, guesswork. — Paul Halmos
Mathematics has two faces: it is the rigorous science of Euclid, but it is also something else. Mathematics presented in the Euclidean way appears as… — George Polya
The deductive method is the mode of using knowledge, and the inductive method the mode of acquiring it. — Henry Mayhew
I am delighted to know that Principia Mathematica can now be done by machinery. . . I am quite willing to believe that anything in… — Bertrand Russell
For the emergent process, as noted by the geneticist Theodore Dobzhansky, is neither random nor determined but creative. Just as in human order, creativity is… — Thomas Berry
Through all the years of experimenting and research, I never once made a discovery. I start where the last man left off. All my work… — Thomas A. Edison
The mathematician starts with a few propositions, the proof of which is so obvious that they are called self-evident, and the rest of his work… — Thomas Huxley
All that the world needs most today, is combined in the most deductive manner in his art; the three great stimulants of exhausted people: brutality,… — Friedrich Nietzsche
For it is necessary in every practical science to proceed in a composite (i.e. deductive) manner. On the contrary in speculative science, it is necessary… — Thomas Aquinas
During all those years of experimentation and research, I never once made a discovery. All my work was deductive, and the results I achieved were… — Thomas A. Edison
I'm not a great deductive thinker, but I will admit to having competence in a very wide range of things - not being afraid to… — Stephen Jay Gould
You should carefully study the Art of Reasoning, as it is what most people are very deficient in, and I know few things more disagreeable… — William John Wills

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