Consistency Quote by Kurt Gödel

The development of mathematics toward greater precision has led, as is well known, to the formalization of large tracts of it, so that one…

— Kurt Gödel

Since reasoning , or inference, the principal subject of logic, is an operation which usually takes place by means of words , and in…

— John Stuart Mill

There is no reasoning, no process of inference or comparison; there is no thinking about things, no putting two and two together; there are…

— Edward Thorndike

The average college graduate's proficient literacy in English [the ability to read lengthy, complex texts and draw complicated inferences] has declined from 40 percent…

— Charles Colson

The inference to which we are brought is that the causes of faction cannot be removed and that relief is only to be sought…

— James Madison

When I was twelve years old I thought up an odd trinity: namely, God the Father, God the Son, and God the Devil. My…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

All science is intelligent inference; excessive literalism is delusion, not a humble bowing to evidence.

— Stephen Jay Gould

The modern world needs people with a complex identity who are intellectually autonomous and prepared to cope with uncertainty; who are able to tolerate…

— Robert J. Havighurst

But deciding not to have children is a very, very hard decision for a woman to make: the atmosphere is worryingly inconducive to saying,…

— Caitlin Moran

And the user may have a higher comfort level deciding what information to provide rather than worrying about what inferences might be made from…

— Edward Felten

“Holmes laughed. "Watson insists that I am the dramatist in real life," said he. "Some touch of the artist wells up within me, and…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

Man is very much a creature of habit. A thing that rarely strikes his senses will generally have but little influence upon his mind.…

— Alexander Hamilton