Inference Quotes

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

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

Whatever we know without inference is mental.

Shadwell hated all southerners and, by inference, was standing at the North Pole.

The death rate is a fact; anything beyond this is an inference.

You can make some inferences about a man's character if you know something about the conditions in which he has survived and prospered.

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.

It is a false principle that because we are entirely occupied with ourselves, we must equally occupy the thoughts of others. The contrary inference is the fair one.

Inference is always an invasion of the unknown, a leap from the known.

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.

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.

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.

A universe whose only claim to be believed in rests on the validity of inference must not start telling us the inference is invalid.

We shall say that we have acquaintance with anything of which we are directly aware, without the intermediary of any process of inference of any knowledge of truths.

Through logic and inference we can prove anything. Therefore, logic and inference, in contrast to ordinary daily living experience, are secondary instruments of knowledge. Probably tertiary.

Induction is a process of inference; it proceeds from the known to the unknown.

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.

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.

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