All inferences from experience... are effects of custom, not of reasoning. — David Hume Copy Share Image
To all those who have drawn the inference from my words that Africa, as a continent, is somehow genetically inferior, I can… — James D. Watson Copy Share Image
Induction is a process of inference; it proceeds from the known to the unknown. — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Some changes of language are to be regretted, as they lead to false inferences, and society is always a loser by mistaking… — James F. Cooper Copy Share Image
The wisdom obtained in the higher states of consciousness is different from that obtained by inference and testimony as it refers to… — Patanjali Copy Share Image
Quality without science and research is absurd. You can't make inferences that something works when you have 60 percent missing data. — Peter Pronovost Copy Share Image
How could an argument soothe or settle a controversy when every word is a nest for a bird of doubt? (meaning of… — Edmond Jabes Copy Share Image
...a consistency proof for [any] system ... can be carried out only by means of modes of inference that are not formalized… — Kurt Gödel Copy Share Image
The idea of a universal mind or Logos would be, I think, a fairly plausible inference from the present state of scientific… — Arthur Eddington Copy Share Image
Women never reason, or, if they do, they either draw correct inferences from wrong premises, or wrong inferences from correct premises; and… — Richard Whately Copy Share Image
The extreme rarity of transitional forms in the fossil record persists as a trade secret of Paleontology. Evolutionary trees that adorn our… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Inferences of Science and Common Sense differ from those of deductive logic and mathematics in a very important respect, namely, when the… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
It has been observed that one's nose is never so happy as when thrust into the affairs of others from which some… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Intellect may arrive at certain inferences, but intellect is an unconsicous phenomenon. You are almost behaving sleepily. Intelligence is awakening, and unless… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
While no inference is intended here, it is worth noting, in connection with Milton Friedman's comment that "Kelso just turned Marx upside… — Louis O. Kelso Copy Share Image
The conjuror or con man is a very good provider of information. He supplies lots of data, by inference or direct statement,… — James Randi Copy Share Image
Any approach to scientific inference which seeks to legitimize it and answer in reponse to complex uncertainty is, for me, a totalitarian… — Adrian Smith Copy Share Image
[T]ruly grand and powerful theories [...] do not and cannot rest upon single observations. Evolution is an inference from thousands of independent… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
The true man of science will know nature better by his finer organization; he will smell, taste, see, hear, feel, better than… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Given its more substantial aim, a judgment is apt only if its constitutive alethic affirmation is not only apt but aptly apt.… — Ernest Sosa Copy Share Image
The inference is, that God has restated the superiority of the West. God always does like that when a thousand white people… — Zora Neale Hurston Copy Share Image
It is not really difficult to construct a series of inferences, each dependent upon its predecessor and each simple in itself. If,… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
No deliberation made by a single person will be successful; the nature of the work which a sovereign has to do is… — Chanakya Copy Share Image
Has it been found that bodies of men act with more rectitude or greater disinterestedness than individuals? The contrary of this has… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
We come to the New Testament, where again a host of imperative verbs is mustered in support of that miserable bondage of… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
“Holmes laughed. "Watson insists that I am the dramatist in real life," said he. "Some touch of the artist wells up within… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“To engage the written word means to follow a line of thought, which requires considerable powers of classifying, inference-making and reasoning. It… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
“Probability is orderly opinion and inference from data is nothing other than the revision of such opinion in the light of relevant… — Eliezer S. Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
We do not learn by inference and deduction and the application of mathematics to philosophy, but by direct intercourse and sympathy. — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
A Bill of Rights is what the people are entitled to against every government, and what no just government should refuse, or… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Inductive inference is the only process known to us by which essentially new knowledge comes into the world. — Ronald Fisher Copy Share Image
You can make some inferences about a man's character if you know something about the conditions in which he has survived and… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Shadwell hated all southerners and, by inference, was standing at the North Pole. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
The greatest progress that the human race has made lies in learning how to make correct inferences. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
A universe whose only claim to be believed in rests on the validity of inference must not start telling us the inference… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
All science is intelligent inference; excessive literalism is delusion, not a humble bowing to evidence. — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
The ocean is the last frontier of human empirical knowledge; even the contours on that eighth-grader's globe are the product of a… — Alan Huffman Copy Share Image
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