Famous quotes containing the words word, sense and/or induction:
“I do not correct my first imaginings by my secondwell, yes, perhaps a word or so, but only to vary, not to delete. I want to represent the course of my humors and I want people to see each part at its birth.”
—Michel de Montaigne (15331592)
“To be motivated to sit at home and study, instead of going out and playing, children need a sense of themselves over timethey need to be able to picture themselves in the future.... If they cant, then theyre simply reacting to daily events, responding to the needs of the momentfor pleasure, for affiliation, for acceptance.”
—Stanley I. Greenspan (20th century)
“They relieve and recommend each other, and the sanity of society is a balance of a thousand insanities. She punishes abstractionists, and will only forgive an induction which is rare and casual.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)