Inference Quotes

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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Inductive inference is the only process known to us by which essentially new knowledge comes into the world. — Ronald Fisher
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
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 GÃ¶del
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
These are not vague inferences . . . but they are solid conclusions drawn from the natural and necessary progress of human affairs. — Alexander Hamilton
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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