All inferences from experience... are effects of custom, not of reasoning. — David Hume Copy Share Image
These are not vague inferences . . . but they are solid conclusions drawn from the natural and necessary progress of human affairs. — Alexander Hamilton 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
Shadwell hated all southerners and, by inference, was standing at the North Pole. — Terry Pratchett 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
All science is intelligent inference; excessive literalism is delusion, not a humble bowing to evidence. — Stephen Jay Gould 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
“The population of an inference is thus equivalent to the breadth or scope of an argument.” — John Gerring 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
The so called unconscious inferences can be traced back to the all-preserving memory, which presents us with parallel experiences and hence already… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
You put three facts together - that all organisms produce more offspring that can survive, that there's variation among organisms, and that… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
There is no reasoning, no process of inference or comparison; there is no thinking about things, no putting two and two together;… — Edward Thorndike 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
A problem of statistical inference or, more simply, a statistics problem is a problem in which data that have been generated in… — Morris H. DeGroot Copy Share Image
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
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
Validity is the touchstone of inference, and truth of judgment: the fact that vichyssoise is cold ratifies the judgment that vichyssoise is,… — David Berlinski 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
So in this case, Kalamas, don't go by reports, by legends, by traditions, by scripture, by logical conjecture, by inference, by analogies,… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
If we want to make sense of the possibility of successful inductive inference, and if we want to explain the possibility of… — Hilary Kornblith Copy Share Image
The very foundation of our science is only an inference; far the whole of it rests an the unprovable assumption that, all… — William Morris Davis 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
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
Nothing fails like success, because we do not learn anything from it. We only learn from failure, but we do not always… — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
Intelligence is an extremely subtle concept. It's a kind of understanding that flourishes if it's combined with a good memory, but exists… — Isaac Asimov 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
“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
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
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
I had always been told by my parents, not implicitly told, but every inference was that Britain was the hub of the… — Rolf Harris Copy Share Image
If ... the past may be no Rule for the future, all Experience becomes useless and can give rise to no Inferences… — David Hume 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
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
“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
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