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Full Idea
Induction can never afford the slightest reason to think that a law is without an exception.
Gist of Idea
Induction can never prove that laws have no exceptions
Source
Charles Sanders Peirce (Reasoning and the Logic of Things [1898], II)
Book Ref
Peirce,Charles Sanders: 'Reasoning and the Logic of Things', ed/tr. Ketner,K.L. [Harvard 1992], p.140
A Reaction
Part of the general Humean doubts about induction, but very precisely stated, and undeniable. You can then give up on universal laws, or look for deeper reasons to justify your conviction that there are no exceptions. E.g. observe mass, or Higgs Boson.