Top 50 Quotes About Induction
#1. I look at things and think about them,' Folly replied. 'And use my intuition, of course, and deduction and induction, as well as any historical or theoretical models that seem to apply.
Jim Butcher
#2. Beyond the natural numbers, addition, multiplication, and mathematical induction are intuitively clear.
L. E. J. Brouwer
#3. However logical our induction, the end of the thread is fastened upon the assurance of faith.
Edwin Hubbel Chapin
#4. My kitchen in New York City is in the Richard Meier building on Perry Street, so it's ultra-modern: white, glass and transparent. It's 180 square feet, with an induction stove. Everything's hidden, so you don't see the microwave or the fridge.
Jean-Georges Vongerichten
#5. Now this principle of induction cannot be a purely logical truth like a tautology or an analytic statement ...
Karl Popper
#6. There is a tradition of opposition between adherents of induction and of deduction. In my view it would be just as sensible for the two ends of a worm to quarrel.
Alfred North Whitehead
#7. Enter RUMOUR, painted full of tongues.
[Stage direction, Henry IV, Part 2, Induction]
William Shakespeare
#8. Finding a mechanism does not bypass the problem of induction.
Simon Blackburn
#9. The so-called law of induction cannot possibly be a law of logic, since it is obviously a proposition with a sense.
Nor, therefore, can it be an a priori law.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
#10. If you become very close to your teacher, if you do well in your meditation, a deep emotional bond will develop between both of you over a period of time. You can be thousands of miles away from your teacher and find that induction is always taking place. That's the ideal.
Frederick Lenz
#11. The world divides into those who like the managed induction of terror and those who don't. I do not find terror exciting. I find it terrifying.
David Foster Wallace
#12. Both induction and deduction, reasoning from the particular and the general, and back again from the universal to the specific, form the essence to scientific thinking.
Hans Christian Von Baeyer
#13. What a mathematical proof actually does is show that certain conclusions, such as the irrationality of , follow from certain premises, such as the principle of mathematical induction. The validity of these premises is an entirely independent matter which can safely be left to philosophers.
Timothy Gowers
#14. Induction is the glory of science and the scandal of philosophy.
C. D. Broad
#15. The process of induction is the process of assuming the simplest law that can be made to harmonize with our experience.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
#16. Among other things, autoimmune disorders are an induction into a world of unstable information and no reliable expertise.
Ben Marcus
#17. Until the seventeenth century there was no concept of evidence with which to pose the problem of induction!
Ian Hacking
#19. This inductively justifies the conclusion that induction cannot justify any conclusions.
David Deutsch
#20. If we have no idea why a statement is true, we can still prove it by induction.
Gian-Carlo Rota
#21. Breast stimulation is especially effective in starting labor at term when it is combined with sexual intercourse. Unless your partner is an abysmally poor lover, this combination is by far the most enjoyable method of induction.
Ina May Gaskin
#22. 1 + 1 = 2 is simply an induction from experience. It is in no way logically or arithmetically 'necessary'. It is induced knowledge, on a par with 'All swans are white'.
Paul Strathern
#23. These are my enticements, and they are sufficent to conquer all fear and danger or death ... with the induction of the joy of a child feels when embarks a little boat.
Mary Shelley
#24. Gods induction, life's construction, these instruct will save every living thing. Can't you see that life's connected?
Stevie Wonder
#25. Anything is easy to the man who sees ... The open eye of the open mind
that has more to do with real detective work than all the deduction and induction and analysis ever devised.
Samuel Hopkins Adams
#26. The general mental qualification necessary for scientific advancement is that which is usually denominated "common sense," though added to this, imagination, induction, and trained logic, either of common language or of mathematics, are important adjuncts.
Joseph Henry
#28. On teacher education: induction into current mandates must not turn into seduction away from best practice.
Andy Hargreaves
#29. It is important to note that there exist vast gender differences in the global role of papillomaviruses in human cancers. This is mainly due to the role of this virus family in the induction of cancer of the cervix.
Harald Zur Hausen
#30. I think the media plays into the hands of false induction, genuine seduction taking place, wrong deductions, and the inevitable reductions. That's the way and the path of the visual.
Ravi Zacharias
#31. MID-TWENTIES BREAKDOWN: A period of mental collapse occurring in one's twenties, often caused by an inability to function outside of school or structured environments coupled with a realization of one's essential aloneness in the world. Often marks induction into the ritual of pharmaceutical usage.
Douglas Coupland
#32. Induction makes you feel guilty for getting something out of nothing, and it is artificial, but it is one of the greatest ideas of civilization.
Herbert Wilf
#33. When I was 19, I thought I wanted to be an English civil servant. It was the most exotic thing at the time - can you imagine, in the middle of the IRA bombing campaigns? I saw an ad inviting Irish applicants for an induction course, so I signed up.
Colm Toibin
#34. For me the problem of induction is a problem about the world: a problem of how we, as we are now (by our present scientific lights), in a world we never made, should stand better than random, or coin-tossing chances changes of coming out right when we predict by inductions ...
Willard Van Orman Quine
#35. When philosophic reason is clear and certain by intuition or necessary induction, no subsequent revelation supported by prophecies or miracles can supersede it.
John Adams
#36. Model building is the art of selecting those aspects of a process that are relevant to the question being asked. As with any art, this selection is guided by taste, elegance, and metaphor; it is a matter of induction, rather than deduction. High science depends on this art.
John Henry Holland
#37. Induction is the process of taking things within our experience to be representative of the world outside our experience. It is a process of projection or extrapolation.
Simon Blackburn
#38. Induction for deduction, with a view to construction.
Auguste Comte
#39. If it is love that makes the world go round, it is self-induction that makes electromagnetic waves go round the world.
Oliver Heaviside
#40. I will calmly wait for my induction to the Baseball Hall of Fame. Don't I have the numbers to be inducted?
Sammy Sosa
#41. We physicists, on the other hand, must take for granted that the things that exist by nature are, either all or some of them, in motion - which is indeed made plain by induction.
Aristotle.
#42. In experimental philosophy, propositions gathered from phenomena by induction should be considered either exactly or very nearly true notwithstanding any contrary hypotheses, until yet other phenomena make such propositions either more exact or liable to exceptions.
Isaac Newton
#43. [Mathematics] unceasingly calls forth the faculties of observation and comparison; one of its principal weapons is induction: it has frequent recourse to trial and verification; and it affords a boundless scope for the exercise of the highest efforts of imagination and invention.
James Joseph Sylvester
#44. There's an empty shelf here with your name and dates?"
"There is. And it was beginning to sound nice. But then I got called in to this meeting. An induction ceremony. Some crazy old man and his granddaughter." He stands, guides me up beside him. "And I don't regret it. Now, go home.
Victoria Schwab
#45. Observation and experiment for gathering material, induction and deduction for elaborating it: these are are only good intellectual tools.
Francis Bacon
#46. If the [Vestiges] be true, the labours of sober induction are in vain; religion is a lie; human law is a mass of folly, and a base injustice; morality is moonshine; our labours for the black people of Africa were works of madmen; and man and woman are only better beasts!
Adam Sedgwick
#47. Whatever lies beyond the limits of experience, and claims another origin than that of induction and deduction from established data, is illegitimate.
George Henry Lewes
#48. I think some intuition leaks out in every step of an induction proof.
Jim Propp
#49. The only hope [of science] ... is in genuine induction.
Francis Bacon
#50. Since my induction into the Sports Hall of Fame, I have wanted to have my No. 3 Chevy on exhibit for sports fans to see. I hope others will enjoy the car as much as I have.
Junior Johnson
