Quotes About Inferences

#1. How could an argument soothe or settle a controversy when every word is a nest for a bird of doubt? (meaning of words as inferences)

Edmond Jabes

#2. 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

#3. These are not vague inferences ... but they are solid conclusions drawn from the natural and necessary progress of human affairs.

Alexander Hamilton

#4. One great function of Bible verses: To keep us from drawing false inferences from other Bible verses.

John Piper

#5. The more guidance a central bank can provide the public about how policy is likely to evolve the greater the chance that market participants will make appropriate inferences.

Ben Bernanke

#6. I don't have much use for the concept of innateness. The everyday concept incorporates a number of different notions that can come apart in in many ways, and as a result encourages a range of dangerously fallacious inferences.

David Papineau

#7. Some changes of language are to be regretted, as they lead to false inferences, and society is always a loser by mistaking names for things.

James F. Cooper

#8. All the rest of [Shakespeare's] vast history, as furnished by the biographers, is built up, course upon course, of guesses, inferences, theories, conjectures - an Eiffel Tower of artificialities rising sky-high from a very flat and very thin foundation of inconsequential facts.

Mark Twain

#9. There is a class, moreover, by whom all these scientific theories, and more are held as ascertained facts, and as the basis of philosophical inferences which strike at the root of theistic beliefs.

Asa Gray

#10. Reading a book, and taking the time to ruminate and make inferences and engage the imaginational processing, is more cognitively enriching, without a doubt, than the short little bits that you might get if you're into the 30-second digital mode.

Ken Pugh

#11. Could there be a slenderer, more insignificant thread in human history than this consciousness of a girl, busy with her small inferences of the way in which she could make her life pleasant?

George Eliot

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

Richard Wright

#13. 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

#14. Knowledge about limitations of your data collection process affects what inferences you can draw from the data.

Nick Bostrom

#15. On the one hand, the falsest judgments, whether based on isolated facts or only on appearances, always embrace some truths whose sphere, whether large or small, affords room for a certain number of inferences, beyond which we fall into absurdity.

Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

#16. The so called unconscious inferences can be traced back to the all-preserving memory, which presents us with parallel experiences and hence already knows the consequences of an action. It is not anticipation of the effects; rather, it is the feeling: identical causes, identical effects ...

Friedrich Nietzsche

#17. Logic was, formerly, the art of drawing inferences; it has now become the art of abstaining from inferences, since it has appeared that the inferences we feel naturally inclined to make are hardly ever valid.

Bertrand Russell

#18. 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 in 1992 to 31 percent ten years later.

Charles Colson

#19. Rules and particular inferences alike are justified by being brought into agreement with each other. A rule is amended if it yields an inference we are unwilling to accept; an inference is rejected if it violates a rule we are unwilling to amend.

Nelson Goodman

#20. "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 from what you see. You are too timid in drawing your inferences."

Arthur Conan Doyle

#21. I sat, head down, quivering furiously at their inferences of female sell-by dates and life as game of musical chairs where girls without a chair/man when the music stops/they pass thirty are 'out.'
Huh. As if.

Helen Fielding

#22. Inferences of Science and Common Sense differ from those of deductive logic and mathematics in a very important respect, namely, when the premises are true and the reasoning correct, the conclusion is only probable.

Bertrand Russell

#23. Intellect may arrive at certain inferences, but intellect is an unconsicous phenomenon. You are almost behaving sleepily. Intelligence is awakening, and unless you are fully awake, whatsoever you decide is bound to be wrong somewhere or other.

Rajneesh

#24. From visible habits we make inferences as to the invisible attributes of the soul. Therefore, statecraft is soulcraft.

George F. Will

#25. Quality without science and research is absurd. You can't make inferences that something works when you have 60 percent missing data.

Peter Pronovost

#26. Women never reason, or, if they do, they either draw correct inferences from wrong premises, or wrong inferences from correct premises; and they always poke the fire from the top.

Richard Whately

#27. 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 circumstantial.

Levi Woodbury

#28. All inferences from experience ... are effects of custom, not of reasoning.

David Hume

#29. If ... the past may be no Rule for the future, all Experience becomes useless and can give rise to no Inferences or Conclusions.

David Hume

#30. Far from being a material world, this is a psychic world, which allows us to make only indirect and hypothetical inferences about the real nature of matter. The psychic, alone has immediate reality, and this includes all forms of the psychic, even

Carl Jung

#31. Films are meant solely to provide entertainment. There are no lessons to be learnt and and inferences to be drawn. Has anyone become dutiful and law abiding after seeing a film that espouses these very virtues? Films can do no more than influence fashion, decor, and hairstyle trends.

Madhur Bhandarkar

#32. We can only know each other the way we know distant stars: by observing years-old light, gathering outdated information, running calculations and making inferences.

Gabriel Roth

#33. Judges must beware of hard constructions and strained inferences, for there is no worse torture than that of laws.

Francis Bacon

#34. In the quiet spaces opened up by the prolonged, undistracted reading of a book, people made their own associations, drew their own inferences and analogies, fostered their own ideas. They thought deeply as they read deeply.

Nicholas Carr

#35. 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

#36. Selection Bias: basically, that your inferences will be biased if you use a non-random sample and pretend that it's random.

Uri Bram

#37. In no affairs of mere prejudice, pro or con, do we deduce inferences with entire certainty, even from the most simple data.

Edgar Allan Poe

#38. Data Products are self-adapting, broadly applicable economic engines that derive their value from data and generate more data by influencing human behavior or by making inferences or predictions upon new data.

Benjamin Bengfort

#39. having DID in itself creates intense shame. A person continually has to deal with not remembering what one has said or done. Thus, the person with DID must be quick with inferences and cover-ups. Unfortunately, this often convinces her, as well as others, that she is a liar.

Elizabeth Howell

#40. And the user may have a higher comfort level deciding what information to provide rather than worrying about what inferences might be made from what they've gathered.

Edward Felten

#41. The greatest progress that the human race has made lies in learning how to make correct inferences.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#42. A delicate, inexorable lattice of inferences began to assemble themselves, like a crystal, in the old man's mind, shivering, catching the light in glints and surmises.

Michael Chabon

#43. Let me run over the principal steps. We approached the case, you remember, with an absolutely blank mind, which is always an advantage. We had formed no theories. We were simply there to observe and to draw inferences from our observations.

Arthur Conan Doyle