Quotes of: Inferences Keyword

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 inference started was purely problematic.

Silas Marner

Juries must, of necessity, be governed, in reaching many results through inferences from other facts, by certain laws of nature and human reason. They are often obliged to infer one thing from another, and this, whether that other be a fact direct or...

Levi Woodbury

We cannot infer from prosperity that God is pleased with us, nor can we infer from adversity that he is displeased with us.

Wilson Benton

We may at once admit that any inference from the particular to the general must be attended with some degree of uncertainty, but this is not the same as to admit that such inference cannot be absolutely rigorous, for the nature and degree of the unce...

Love

The word 'proof' should strictly only be used when we are dealing with deductive inferences.... Popper claimed that scientists only need to use deductive inferences.... So if a scientist is only interested in demonstrating that a given theory is fals...

Philosophy of Science: A Very Short Introduction

When you're choosing furniture for your home that's supposed to express who you are, what you are also saying is you want other people to infer what you want them to infer. What if they see something different? Wouldn't it be really depressing if you...

Sheena Iyengar

Whenever explaining an event, we must choose from three competing modes of explanation. These are regularity, chance, and design... To attribute an event to design is to say that it cannot reasonably be referred to either regularity or chance.

The Design Inference: Eliminating Chance Through Small Probabilities

We are not inferring design to account for a black box, but to account for an open box.

Michael Behe

Don't leave inferences to be drawn when evidence can be presented.

Richard Wright

People have a hard time accepting free-market economics for the same reason they have a hard time accepting evolution: it is counterintuitive. Life looks intelligently designed, so our natural inclination is to infer that there must be an intelligent...

Michael Shermer

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 ideas - the animal does not think of the box or of the food or of the act he is to perform.

Edward Thorndike

Remarkably, studies of visual perception have found that two-dimensional images projected onto the retina only achieve full dimensionality as a result of our perception: we infer the third dimension of depth. Sadly, though, as the urgency to expedite...

Screen: Essays on Graphic Design, New Media, and Visual Culture

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

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

We do not learn by inference and deduction and the application of mathematics to philosophy, but by direct intercourse and sympathy.

Richard M. Nixon

Television doesn't like politics very well, if you can infer that from the way they cover it.

Jack Germond

99 percent of what you see is not what comes in through the eyes. It is what you infer about that room.

Henry Markram

We observe closely related species in sympatry and infer how they evolved from a common ancestor.

Peter R. Grant

Much can be inferred about a man from his mistress: in her one beholds his weaknesses and his dreams.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

Photography is very presumptuous. Photographers are always photographing other people's lives - something they know nothing about - and drawing great inferences into it.

Duane Michals

Thought is what we start from: the simple, intimate, immediate datum. Matter is the inferred thing, the mystery.

C.S. Lewis