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Deductive Quotes by Thomas A. Edison
- 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…
- 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…
More Deductive Quotes
- Mathematics is not a deductive science-that's a cliché. When you try to prove a theorem, you don't just list the hypotheses, and… — Paul Halmos
- The intellectual equipment needed for the job of the future is an ability to define problems, quickly assimilate relevant data, conceptualize and… — Robert Reich
- Mathematics is not a deductive science, that's a cliché ... What you do is trial and error, experimentation, guesswork. — Paul Halmos
- 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,… — Alfred North Whitehead
- ...it is absurd to try to confine our knowledge and belief to matters which are conclusively established by sound deductive arguments. The… — 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… — Ibn Arabi
- Facts - behind them lies the whole fabric of deductive truth. — Peter Sellers