All but a few of the organizations do not specifically promise to deliver superior investment performance although it is perhaps not unreasonable… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
“A delicate, inexorable lattice of inferences began to assemble themselves, like a crystal, in the old man's mind, shivering, catching the light… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
But Thee, but Thee, O sovereign Seer of time, But Thee, O poets' Poet, Wisdom's Tongue, But Thee, O man's best Man,… — Sidney Lanier Copy Share Image
The main reason for insisting on the universal Flood as a fact of history and as the primary vehicle for geological interpretation… — Henry M. Morris 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
This desire of knowledge and the wonder which it hopes to satisfy are the driving power behind all the changes that we,… — Nicholas Murray Butler Copy Share Image
Haldane was engaged in discussion with an eminent theologian. "What inference," asked the latter, "might one draw about the nature of God… — John B. S. Haldane Copy Share Image
In attempting to understand the elements out of which mental phenomena are compounded, it is of the greatest importance to remember that… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
There is nothing which an untrained mind shows itself more hopelessly incapable, than in drawing the proper general conclusions from its own… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Under my definition, a scientific theory is a proposed explanation which focuses or points to physical, observable data and logical inferences. There… — Michael Behe Copy Share Image
The dull mind, once arriving at an inference that flatters the desire, is rarely able to retain the impression that the notion… — George Eliot 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
I am guilty of believing that the human race can be humanized and enriched in every spiritual inference through the saner and… — Eugene V. Debs Copy Share Image
Evolution is an inference from thousands of independent sources, the only conceptual structure that can make unified sense of all this disparate… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
All thought of something is at the same time self-consciousness [...] At the root of all our experiences and all our reflections,… — Maurice Merleau-Ponty Copy Share Image
Organs, faculties, powers, capacities, or whatever else we call them; grow by use and diminish from disuse, it is inferred that they… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
I think the reality is Michael Jackson's humanity is so deep, the implications and inferences of his art so monumentally and magnificently… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
The statistician cannot excuse himself from the duty of getting his head clear on the principles of scientific inference, but equally no… — Ronald Fisher 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
The basic formulation, or bare-bones mechanics, of natural selection is a disarmingly simple argument, based on three undeniable facts (overproduction of offspring,… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
It is a false principle that because we are entirely occupied with ourselves, we must equally occupy the thoughts of others. The… — William Hazlitt 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
Intelligent thinking means an increment of freedom in action-an emancipation from chance and fatality. 'Thought' represents the suggestion of a way of… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Far from being a material world, this is a psychic world, which allows us to make only indirect and hypothetical inferences about… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
We can scarcely avoid the inference that light consists in the transverse undulations of the same medium which is the cause of… — James Clerk Maxwell Copy Share Image
