Inductive Quotes
18 quotes by 17 authors
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The validity of all the Inductive Methods depends on the assumption that every event, or the beginning of every phenomenon, must have some cause; some…
— John Stuart Mill
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[Vestiges begins] from principles which are at variance with all sober inductive truth. The sober facts of geology shuffled, so as to play a rogue's…
— Adam Sedgwick
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Inductive inference is the only process known to us by which essentially new knowledge comes into the world.
— Ronald Fisher
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I have said that science is impossible without faith. ... Inductive logic, the logic of Bacon, is rather something on which we can act than…
— Norbert Wiener
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All logic texts are divided into two parts. In the first part, on deductible logic, the fallacies are explained; in the second part, on inductive…
— Morris Raphael Cohen
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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
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Inductive reason, which alone makes man master of his environment, is an achievement and when once born it must be reinforced by inhibiting the growth…
— Muhammad Iqbal
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Political economy has only become a science since it has been confined to the results of inductive investigation.
— Jean-Baptiste Say
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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
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The deductive method is the mode of using knowledge, and the inductive method the mode of acquiring it.
— Henry Mayhew
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What hadn't been realized in the literature until now is that merely to describe how severely something has been tested in the past itself embodies…
— Robert Nozick
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People in good moods are better at inductive reasoning and creative problem solving.
— Peter Salovey
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A formal and consistent theory of inductive processes cannot represent the operation of every human mind in detail; it will represent an ideal mind, but…
— Harold Jeffreys
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In the "commentatio" (note presented to the Russian Academy) in which his theorem on polyhedra (on the number of faces, edges and vertices) was first…
— George Polya
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The increasing technicality of the terminology employed is also a serious difficulty. It has become necessary to learn an extensive vocabulary before a book in…
— Thomas George Bonney
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I distrust thought. The interior life is highly overrated. I don't like the wispy and the vague... or inductive logic in any kind of writing.…
— Barry Hannah
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If you make the same guess often enough it ceases to be a guess and becomes a Scientific Fact. This is the inductive method.
— C.S. Lewis
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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
Who Wrote These Inductive Quotes
17 authors contributed a total of 18 Inductive Quotes as follows: