Deductions Quote by Francis Bacon

We have three approaches at our disposal: the observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation serves to assemble the data, reflection to synthesise them…

— John Dewey

“The successful development of science requires a proper balance to be maintained between the method of building up from observations and the method of…

— Paul A.M. Dirac

Both induction and deduction, reasoning from the particular and the general, and back again from the universal to the specific, form the essence to…

— Hans Christian von Baeyer

“These and similar examples are easy enough to uncover, and they make two crucial points: first, good science does not require experiments, it can…

— Massimo Pigliucci

Learning how to weigh evidence and fairly re-establish a boundary can be as much an art as a science.

— Mark Mason

“Even science is inductive, relying on observations and best explanations, not always deductive conclusions.”

— Nabeel Qureshi

Experiment is the mother of knowledge.

— Madeleine L'Engle

[Mathematics] unceasingly calls forth the faculties of observation and comparison; one of its principal weapons is induction: it has frequent recourse to trial and…

— James Joseph Sylvester

You make observations, write theories to fit them, try experiments to disprove the theories and, if you can't, you've got something.

— Kary Mullis

Experiments are mediators between nature and idea.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“CARLOS: Thanks. But it’s pretty simple. We just follow the scientific method. No matter how advanced the scientific field gets, the foundation of scientific…

— Joseph Fink

Experiment is the only means of knowledge at our disposal. Everything else is poetry, imagination.

— Max Planck