[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
Econometrics may be defined as the quantitative analysis of actual economic phenomena based on the concurrent development of theory and observation, related… — Paul Samuelson 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
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
Future generations will wonder in bemused amazement that the early 21st century's developed world went into hysterical panic over a globally averaged… — Richard Lindzen 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
Induction is a process of inference; it proceeds from the known to the unknown. — John Stuart Mill 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
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
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
Historical science is not worse, more restricted, or less capable of achieving firm conclusions because experiment, prediction, and subsumption under invariant laws… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Photography is very presumptuous. Photographers are always photographing other people's lives - something they know nothing about - and drawing great inferences… — Duane Michals Copy Share Image
I don't have much use for the concept of innateness. The everyday concept incorporates a number of different notions that can come… — David Papineau Copy Share Image
With all this talk about the supposed strain in relations [with the Soviet Union], there is an inference that somehow it is… — Ronald Reagan 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
The greatest crimes have been found, in many instances, to be compatible with a superstitious piety and devotion; hence it is justly… — David Hume Copy Share Image
“The task of general semiotics is that of tracing a single formal structure which underlies all these phenomena, this structure being that… — Umberto Eco 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
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
We shall say that we have acquaintance with anything of which we are directly aware, without the intermediary of any process of… — Bertrand Russell 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
Leibniz endeavored to provide an account of inference and judgment involving the mechanical play of symbols and very little else. The checklists… — David Berlinski Copy Share Image
We may take it to be the accepted idea that the Mosaic books were not handed down to us for our instruction… — Asa Gray Copy Share Image
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