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“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

In every science, after having analysed the ideas, expressing the more complicated by means of the more simple, one finds a certain number that…

— Giuseppe Peano

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

— Nabeel Qureshi

Science, in its ultimate ideal, consists of a set of propositions arranged in a hierarchy, the lowest level of the hierarchy being concerned with…

— Bertrand Russell

All perceiving is also thinking, all reasoning is also intuition, all observation is also invention.

— Rudolf Arnheim

Observation and experiment for gathering material, induction and deduction for elaborating it: these are are only good intellectual tools.

— Francis Bacon

Scientific reasoning is a dialogue between the possible and the actual, between proposal and disposal between what might be true, and what is in…

— Peter Medawar

Science sometimes improves hypotheses and sometimes disproves them. But proof would be another matter and perhaps never occurs except in the realms of totally…

— Gregory Bateson

In experimental philosophy, we are to look upon propositions inferred by general induction from phenomena as accurately or very nearly true, notwithstanding any contrary…

— Isaac Newton

Science is a particular way of thinking about things.

— Lilian Katz

Scientific reasoning is a kind of dialogue between the possible and the actual, between what might be and what is in fact the case.

— Peter Medawar

“We may put it in this way: Deduction depends on Induction, if general propositions are only known to us through the facts: Induction depends…

— Carveth Read