Inductive Logic Quotes

Physics is a good framework for thinking. ... Boil things down to their fundamental truths and reason up from there.

Logic is an old subject, and since 1879 it has been a great one.

Aristotle can be regarded as the father of logic. But his logic is too scholastic, full of subtleties, and fundamentally has not been of much value to the human understanding. It is a dialectic and an organon for the art of disputation.

Induction for deduction, with a view to construction.

Logic is the art of convincing us some truth.

Although nature commences with reason and ends in experience it is necessary for us to do the opposite, that is to commence with experience and from this to proceed to investigate the reason.

Sometimes one must make extended conclusions from limited data.

As a science, logic institutes an analysis of the process of the mind in reasoning, and investigating the principles on which argumentation is conducted; as an art, it furnishes such rules as may be derived from those principles, for guarding against erroneous deductions.

A universe whose only claim to be believed in rests on the validity of inference must not start telling us the inference is invalid.

The art of discovering the causes of phenomena, or true hypotheses, is like the art of deciphering, in which an ingenious conjecture often greatly shortens the road.

Principle will, in... most... cases open the way for us to correct conclusion.

He did not arrive at this conclusion by the decent process of quiet, logical deduction, nor yet by the blinding flash of glorious intuition, but by the shoddy, untidy process halfway between the two by which one usually gets to know things.

I have said that science is impossible without faith. ... Inductive logic, the logic of Bacon, is rather something on which we can act than something which we can prove, and to act on it is a supreme assertion of faith ... Science is a way of life which can only fluorish when men are free to have faith.

From a drop of water a logician could infer the possibility of an Atlantic or a Niagara without having seen or heard of one or the other.

The entire method consists in the order and arrangement of the things to which the mind's eye must turn so that we can discover some truth.