Induction Quote by Simon Blackburn

The process of induction is the process of assuming the simplest law that can be made to harmonize with our experience.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

Induction is the glory of science and the scandal of philosophy.

— C. D. Broad

I think some intuition leaks out in every step of an induction proof.

— Jim Propp

“One attempt to avoid the problem of induction involves weakening the demand that scientific knowledge be proven true, and resting content with the claim…

— Alan F. Chalmers

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

Inductive inference is the only process known to us by which essentially new knowledge comes into the world.

— Ronald Fisher

Belief in an external world independent of the perceiving subject is the basis of all natural science.

— Albert Einstein

There is nothing which an untrained mind shows itself more hopelessly incapable, than in drawing the proper general conclusions from its own experience. And…

— John Stuart Mill

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

— Nabeel Qureshi

Etymologically, the word education means just a process of leading or bringing up.

— John Dewey

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

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