Induction Quotes

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As in Mathematicks, so in Natural Philosophy, the Investigation of difficult Things by the Method of Analysis, ought ever to precede the Method of Composition.… — Isaac Newton
Observation and experiment for gathering material, induction and deduction for elaborating it: these are are only good intellectual tools. — Francis Bacon
Science, in its ultimate ideal, consists of a set of propositions arranged in a hierarchy, the lowest level of the hierarchy being concerned with particular… — Bertrand Russell
I am convinced that it is impossible to expound the methods of induction in a sound manner, without resting them upon the theory of probability.… — William Stanley Jevons
The only hope [of science] ... is in genuine induction. — Francis Bacon
In experimental philosophy, propositions gathered from phenomena by induction should be considered either exactly or very nearly true notwithstanding any contrary hypotheses, until yet other… — Isaac Newton
A great part of its [higher arithmetic] theories derives an additional charm from the peculiarity that important propositions, with the impress of simplicity on them,… — Carl Friedrich Gauss
The general mental qualification necessary for scientific advancement is that which is usually denominated "common sense," though added to this, imagination, induction, and trained logic,… — Joseph Henry
French wines may be said but to pickle meat in the stomach, but this is the wine that digests, and doth not only breed good… — James Howell
If the [Vestiges] be true, the labours of sober induction are in vain; religion is a lie; human law is a mass of folly, and… — Adam Sedgwick
A woman might claim to retain some of the child's faculties, although very limited and defused, simply because she has not been encouraged to learn… — Germaine Greer
However logical our induction, the end of the thread is fastened upon the assurance of faith. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin
I will calmly wait for my induction to the Baseball Hall of Fame. Don't I have the numbers to be inducted? — Sammy Sosa
This amazing breakthrough full-length revolutionary audio uses a powerful new combination of a subliminal hypnotic induction AND beautiful original music (created with a really cool… — Joe Vitale
In every science, after having analysed the ideas, expressing the more complicated by means of the more simple, one finds a certain number that cannot… — Giuseppe Peano
The kind of knowledge which is supported only by observations and is not yet proved must be carefully distinguished from the truth; it is gained… — Leonhard Euler
If it is love that makes the world go round, it is self-induction that makes electromagnetic waves go round the world. — Oliver Heaviside
There has been a controversy started of late, much better worth examination, concerning the general foundation of Morals; whether they be derived from Reason, or… — David Hume
The process of induction is the process of assuming the simplest law that can be made to harmonize with our experience. — Ludwig Wittgenstein
For me the problem of induction is a problem about the world: a problem of how we, as we are now (by our present scientific… — Willard Van Orman Quine

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