Inference Quotes

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A Bill of Rights is what the people are entitled to against every government, and what no just government should refuse, or rest on inference. — Thomas Jefferson
People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false, a gift confers no rights. — Friedrich Nietzsche
We do not learn by inference and deduction and the application of mathematics to philosophy, but by direct intercourse and sympathy. — Richard M. Nixon
Tax dollars intended for science education must not be used to teach creationism as any sort of real explanation of nature, because any observation or… — Bill Nye
Don't leave inferences to be drawn when evidence can be presented. — Richard Wright
Shadwell hated all southerners and, by inference, was standing at the North Pole. — Terry Pratchett
All thought of something is at the same time self-consciousness [...] At the root of all our experiences and all our reflections, we find [...]… — Maurice Merleau-Ponty
It has been observed that one's nose is never so happy as when thrust into the affairs of others from which some physiologists have drawn… — Ambrose Bierce
You can make some inferences about a man's character if you know something about the conditions in which he has survived and prospered. — Richard Dawkins
The dull mind, once arriving at an inference that flatters the desire, is rarely able to retain the impression that the notion from which the… — George Eliot
But deciding not to have children is a very, very hard decision for a woman to make: the atmosphere is worryingly inconducive to saying, "I… — Caitlin Moran
The greatest crimes have been found, in many instances, to be compatible with a superstitious piety and devotion; hence it is justly regarded as unsafe… — David Hume
The conjuror or con man is a very good provider of information. He supplies lots of data, by inference or direct statement, but it's false… — James Randi
Evolution is an inference from thousands of independent sources, the only conceptual structure that can make unified sense of all this disparate information. — Stephen Jay Gould
I had always been told by my parents, not implicitly told, but every inference was that Britain was the hub of the universe. — Rolf Harris
There is no reasoning, no process of inference or comparison; there is no thinking about things, no putting two and two together; there are no… — Edward Thorndike
This fact immediately suggested a singular event - that at some time in the distant past the universe began expanding from an extremely small size.… — Michael Behe
To all those who have drawn the inference from my words that Africa, as a continent, is somehow genetically inferior, I can only apologise unreservedly. — James D. Watson
NOSE, n. The extreme outpost of the face. From the circumstance that great conquerors have great noses, Getius, whose writings antedate the age of humor,… — Ambrose Bierce
IF there is no experiment,no observation,without observation,no inference,without inference control conclusion(theory or law)cant be stated.one process leads to another,one step mistook may be the end… — Adewale Ajibola

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