Observation And Inference Quotes

#1. We may take it to be the accepted idea that the Mosaic books were not handed down to us for our instruction in scientific knowledge, and that it is our duty to ground our scientific beliefs upon observation and inference, unmixed with considerations of a different order.

Asa Gray

#2. And now you're here. And we can do this over. You know its you, right. It's always been you.

Jessica Love

#3. I try to have no absolute nos. I love french fries, I like a good burger, and I like pie. And that's okay.

Michelle Obama

#4. 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 from observed facts.

Charles William Eliot

#5. These are fountains of salvation that they who thirst may be satisfied with the living words they contain. In these alone is proclaimed the doctrine of godliness. Let no man add to these, neither let him take out from these.

Athanasius

#6. In the past I've worked with directors who saw very much their scene in their head and knew exactly how they were going to cut it.

Colm Meaney

#7. I mistook my free fall for freedom.

Sacha Zimmerman Scoblic

#8. Scotland has a great deal to offer the world in terms of our approach to key economic and social issues.

Nicola Sturgeon

#9. We are puzzle pieces, bragging about being puzzle pieces, rather than being the picture.

Tom Althouse

#10. An observation, strictly, is only a sensation. Nobody means that we should reject everything but sensations. But as soon as we go beyond sensations we are making inferences.

Harold Jeffreys

#11. Intelligent thinking means an increment of freedom in action-an emancipation from chance and fatality. 'Thought' represents the suggestion of a way of response that is different from that which would have been followed if intelligent observation had not effected an inference as to the future.

John Dewey

#12. I think somebody like Wes [Anderson] has a very good sense of style and is original. I think my sense of style got a little bit better after I was exposed to you guys at Valentino. Because I'm just in Hawaii and Malibu; it's just kind of T-shirts and surfing-type stuff.

Owen Wilson

#13. Even after the observation of the frequent conjunction of objects, we have no reason to draw any inference concerning any object beyond those of which we have had experience.

David Hume

#14. The big question now is who will take power in Afghanistan once the Taliban is defeated. I was thinking, how about Al Gore? He's not doing anything, he needs a job, and he's already got the beard.

Jay Leno

#15. It's the teachers, they're the enemy. They get us to fight each other, to hate each other.

Orson Scott Card

#16. 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 process of inference about our origin and the nature of the universe disproves creationism in every respect.

Bill Nye

#17. I always preferred working with somebody so I could look into their eyeballs and play tennis.

Carol Burnett

#18. Econometrics may be defined as the quantitative analysis of actual economic phenomena based on the concurrent development of theory and observation, related by appropriate methods of inference.

Paul Samuelson