Infer Quotes
50 quotes by 45 authors
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To punish a man because he has committed a crime, or because he is believed, though unjustly, to have committed a crime, is not persecution.…
— Thomas B. Macaulay
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There is no such thing as unconsciousness for it is not experienceable. We infer unconsciousness when there is a lapse in memory or communication.
— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
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Whoever wishes to acquire a deep acquaintance with Nature must observe that there are analogies which connect whole branches of science in a parallel manner,…
— William Stanley Jevons
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Tis evident that all reasonings concerning matter of fact are founded on the relation of cause and effect, and that we can never infer the…
— David Hume
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The religious hypothesis, therefore, must be considered only as a particular method of accounting for the visible phenomena of the universe: but no just reasoner…
— David Hume
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The chief distinction in the intellectual powers of the two sexes is shown by mans attaining to a higher eminence, in whatever he takes up,…
— Charles Darwin
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As historians, we refuse to allow ourselves these vain speculations which turn on possibilities that, in order to be reduced to actuality, suppose an overturning…
— Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
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Cell genetics led us to investigate cell mechanics. Cell mechanics now compels us to infer the structures underlying it. In seeking the mechanism of heredity…
— C. D. Darlington
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Constitutions of civil government are not to be framed upon a calculation of existing exigencies, but upon a combination of these with the probable exigencies…
— Alexander Hamilton
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We infer the spirit of the nation in great measure from the language, which is a sort of monument, to which each forcible individual in…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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We must infer that a plant or animal of any species, is made up of special units, in all of which there dwells the intrinsic…
— Herbert Spencer
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It is long ere we discover how rich we are. Our history, we are sure, is quite tame: we have nothing to write, nothing to…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Howbeit your faith seeth but the black side of Providence, yet it hath a better side, and God shall let you see it. We know…
— Samuel Rutherford
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Staying requires being curious about who you actually are when you don't take yourself to be a collection of memories.When you don't infer your existence…
— Geneen Roth
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Don't rely on logic alone, nor speculation. Don't infer or be deceived by appearances.
— Gautama Buddha
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It is long ere we discover how rich we are. Our history, we are sure, is quite tame: we have nothing to write, nothing to…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I fully agree with all that you say on the advantages of Spencer's excellent expression of 'the survival of the fittest.' This, however, had not…
— Charles Darwin
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The ability to infer the specific content of another person's thoughts and feelings.
— William Ickes
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From my own being, and from the dependency I find in myself and my ideas, I do, by an act of reason, necessarily infer the…
— George Berkeley
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Mathematics is a logical method. . . . Mathematical propositions express no thoughts. In life it is never a mathematical proposition which we need, but…
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
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