Contrary Quote by Isaac Newton

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

— Issac Newton

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

“same phenomenon and concludes that the phenomenon will always occur. Conclusions obtained by induction seem well warranted”

— Morris Kline

The very hope of experimental philosophy, its expectation of constructing the sciences into a true philosophy of nature, is basedon induction, or, if you…

— Chauncey Wright

The hypotheses we accept ought to explain phenomena which we have observed. But they ought to do more than this: our hypotheses ought to…

— William Whewell

The validity of all the Inductive Methods depends on the assumption that every event, or the beginning of every phenomenon, must have some cause;…

— John Stuart Mill

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 law, as in every other branch of knowledge, the truths given by induction tend to form the premises for new deductions. The lawyers…

— Benjamin N. Cardozo

Although to penetrate into the intimate mysteries of nature and thence to learn the true causes of phenomena is not allowed to us, nevertheless…

— Leonhard Euler

As in Mathematicks, so in Natural Philosophy, the Investigation of difficult Things by the Method of Analysis, ought ever to precede the Method of…

— Isaac Newton

It is an acknowledged truth in philosophy that a just theory will always be confirmed by experiment.

— Thomas Malthus

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

— John Stuart Mill