Inference Quotes

“Of inference, all are capable; of judgment, only a few.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Whatever we know without inference is mental.

— Bertrand Russell

“Data is messy, and inference is hard.”

— Jordan Ellenberg

All inferences from experience... are effects of custom, not of reasoning.

— David Hume

Inference is always an invasion of the unknown, a leap from the known.

— John Dewey

The death rate is a fact; anything beyond this is an inference.

— William Farr

If ... the past may be no Rule for the future, all Experience becomes useless and can give rise to no Inferences…

— David Hume

Inductive inference is the only process known to us by which essentially new knowledge comes into the world.

— Ronald Fisher

We do not learn by inference and deduction and the application of mathematics to philosophy, but by direct intercourse and sympathy.

— Richard M. Nixon

I had always been told by my parents, not implicitly told, but every inference was that Britain was the hub of the…

— Rolf Harris

A Bill of Rights is what the people are entitled to against every government, and what no just government should refuse, or…

— Thomas Jefferson

All science is intelligent inference; excessive literalism is delusion, not a humble bowing to evidence.

— Stephen Jay Gould

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

“The population of an inference is thus equivalent to the breadth or scope of an argument.”

— John Gerring

Let me run over the principal steps. We approached the case, you remember, with an absolutely blank mind, which is always an…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

Econometrics may be defined as the quantitative analysis of actual economic phenomena based on the concurrent development of theory and observation, related…

— Paul Samuelson

Far from being a material world, this is a psychic world, which allows us to make only indirect and hypothetical inferences about…

— Carl Jung

Photography is very presumptuous. Photographers are always photographing other people's lives - something they know nothing about - and drawing great inferences…

— Duane Michals

The theory that the man who raises corn does a more important piece of work than the woman who makes it into…

— Ida Tarbell

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

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

I think we have reached a level in society - with Helen Mirren playing The Queen - when we're not surprised any…

— David Suchet

With all this talk about the supposed strain in relations [with the Soviet Union], there is an inference that somehow it is…

— Ronald Reagan

“The task of general semiotics is that of tracing a single formal structure which underlies all these phenomena, this structure being that…

— Umberto Eco

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

Contemporary philosophers have exercised themselves with the problem of our knowledge of other minds. Enmeshed in the dogma of the ghost in…

— Gilbert Ryle

The modern world needs people with a complex identity who are intellectually autonomous and prepared to cope with uncertainty; who are able…

— Robert J. Havighurst

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

Since reasoning , or inference, the principal subject of logic, is an operation which usually takes place by means of words ,…

— John Stuart Mill

I pray that I may never meddle, interfere, dictate, give advice that is not wanted, or assist when my services are not…

— Elbert Hubbard

“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

“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

The greatest progress that the human race has made lies in learning how to make correct inferences.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

These are not vague inferences . . . but they are solid conclusions drawn from the natural and necessary progress of human affairs.

— Alexander Hamilton

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

Shadwell hated all southerners and, by inference, was standing at the North Pole.

— Terry Pratchett

Quality without science and research is absurd. You can't make inferences that something works when you have 60 percent missing data.

— Peter Pronovost

The wisdom obtained in the higher states of consciousness is different from that obtained by inference and testimony as it refers to…

— Patanjali

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

Induction is a process of inference; it proceeds from the known to the unknown.

— John Stuart Mill