Inference Quotes

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So in this case, Kalamas, don't go by reports, by legends, by traditions, by scripture, by logical conjecture, by inference, by analogies, by agreement through… — Gautama Buddha
We come to the New Testament, where again a host of imperative verbs is mustered in support of that miserable bondage of free-choice, and the… — Martin Luther
Validity is the touchstone of inference, and truth of judgment: the fact that vichyssoise is cold ratifies the judgment that vichyssoise is, indeed, cold, and… — David Berlinski
This desire of knowledge and the wonder which it hopes to satisfy are the driving power behind all the changes that we, with careless, question-begging… — Nicholas Murray Butler
A problem of statistical inference or, more simply, a statistics problem is a problem in which data that have been generated in accordance with some… — Morris H. DeGroot
All science is intelligent inference; excessive literalism is delusion, not a humble bowing to evidence. — Stephen Jay Gould
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 modern world needs people with a complex identity who are intellectually autonomous and prepared to cope with uncertainty; who are able to tolerate ambiguity… — Robert J. Havighurst
Small-scale fisheries should not be favoured over large-scale operations ebcause of romantic notions of rugged small operators battling both the elements and anonymous corporations. [They… — Daniel Pauly
An axiomatic system comprises axioms and theorems and requires a certain amount of hand-eye coordination before it works. A formal system comprises an explicit list… — David Berlinski
In some small field each child should attain, within the limited range of its experience and observation, the power to draw a justly limited inference… — Charles William Eliot
"I can see nothing," said I, handing it back to my friend. "On the contrary, Watson, you can see everything. You fail, however, to reason… — Arthur Conan Doyle
... if you insist that the inference is made by a chain of reasoning, I desire you to produce that reasoning. The connection between the… — David Hume
The death rate is a fact; anything beyond this is an inference. — William Farr
Not only does the psyche exist, but it is existence itself. It is an almost absurd prejudice to suppose that existence can only be physical...We… — Carl Jung
Any approach to scientific inference which seeks to legitimize it and answer in reponse to complex uncertainty is, for me, a totalitarian parody of a… — Adrian Smith
The idea of a universal mind or Logos would be, I think, a fairly plausible inference from the present state of scientific theory. — Arthur Eddington
Graphic design is a visual language uniting harmony and balance, color and light, scale and tension, form and content. But it is also an idiomatic… — Jessica Helfand
It is not really difficult to construct a series of inferences, each dependent upon its predecessor and each simple in itself. If, after doing so,… — Arthur Conan Doyle
...a consistency proof for [any] system ... can be carried out only by means of modes of inference that are not formalized in the system… — Kurt GÃ¶del

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