Analogies Quote by Frank Smith

“Deductive reasoning, the bedrock of the scientific method, begins with a new theory which leads to a prediction (a hypothesis). The real world is…

— Rich Jolly

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

— Nabeel Qureshi

“All right,” she said. “Inductive reasoning. It’s what those so-called detectives on CSI, SVU, LMNOP and all the rest of them call deductive reasoning,…

— Joe Ide

“All right,” she said. “Inductive reasoning. It’s what those so-called detectives on CSI, SVU, LMNOP and all the rest of them call deductive reasoning,…

— Joe Ide

The result of the mathematician's creative work is demonstrative reasoning, a proof; but the proof is discovered by plausible reasoning, by guessing.

— George Polya

“It’s abductive reasoning, not deductive. Working from observation to theory is abduction, not deduction.”

— T E Kinsey

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…

— Anonymous

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

Inferences of Science and Common Sense differ from those of deductive logic and mathematics in a very important respect, namely, when the premises are…

— Bertrand Russell

This method of deduction ... is often called "combinatory". Its usefulness is not exhausted at this stage, but it does even at the outset…

— John Chadwick

Actually, most mathematics courses do not teach reasoning of any kind. Students are so baffled by the material that they are obliged to memorize…

— Morris Kline

Induction is a process of inference; it proceeds from the known to the unknown.

— John Stuart Mill