Inference Quotes
80 quotes by 60 authors
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Judges must beware of hard constructions and strained inferences, for there is no worse torture than that of laws.
— Francis Bacon
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Organs, faculties, powers, capacities, or whatever else we call them; grow by use and diminish from disuse, it is inferred that they will continue to…
— Herbert Spencer
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A universe whose only claim to be believed in rests on the validity of inference must not start telling us the inference is invalid.
— C.S. Lewis
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Intelligence is an extremely subtle concept. It's a kind of understanding that flourishes if it's combined with a good memory, but exists anyway even in…
— Isaac Asimov
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Scientific method, although in its more refined forms it may seem complicated, is in essence remarkably simply. It consists in observing such facts as will…
— Bertrand Russell
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If ... the past may be no Rule for the future, all Experience becomes useless and can give rise to no Inferences or Conclusions.
— David Hume
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Haldane was engaged in discussion with an eminent theologian. "What inference," asked the latter, "might one draw about the nature of God from a study…
— John B. S. Haldane
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In attempting to understand the elements out of which mental phenomena are compounded, it is of the greatest importance to remember that from the protozoa…
— Bertrand Russell
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Inductive inference is the only process known to us by which essentially new knowledge comes into the world.
— Ronald Fisher
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Truths are known to us in two ways: some are known directly, and of themselves; some through the medium of other truths. The former are…
— John Stuart Mill
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The development of mathematics toward greater precision has led, as is well known, to the formalization of large tracts of it, so that one can…
— Kurt Gödel
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Inference is founded upon obvious reasons. Regard to reputation has a less active influence, when the infamy of a bad action is to be divided…
— James Madison
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These are not vague inferences . . . but they are solid conclusions drawn from the natural and necessary progress of human affairs.
— Alexander Hamilton
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Man is very much a creature of habit. A thing that rarely strikes his senses will generally have but little influence upon his mind. A…
— Alexander Hamilton
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Each of us lives within the universe - the prison - of his own brain. Projecting from it are millions of fragile sensory nerve fibers,…
— Vernon Benjamin Mountcastle
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Singer and actress Gertrude Lawrence once overheard an assistant describing the beauty of a coat she knew she could never even dream of affording. Having…
— Sheridan Morley
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A mere inference or theory must give way to a truth revealed; but a scientific truth must be maintained, however contradictory it may appear to…
— David Brewster
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Future generations will wonder in bemused amazement that the early 21st century's developed world went into hysterical panic over a globally averaged temperature increase of…
— Richard Lindzen
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The inference to which we are brought is that the causes of faction cannot be removed and that relief is only to be sought in…
— James Madison
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Through logic and inference we can prove anything. Therefore, logic and inference, in contrast to ordinary daily living experience, are secondary instruments of knowledge. Probably…
— Edward Abbey
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