Inductive Quotes

18 quotes by 17 authors

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
[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
Inductive inference is the only process known to us by which essentially new knowledge comes into the world. — Ronald Fisher
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
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
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
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
Political economy has only become a science since it has been confined to the results of inductive investigation. — Jean-Baptiste Say
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
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
People in good moods are better at inductive reasoning and creative problem solving. — Peter Salovey
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
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
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
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
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
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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