#inference

It's frightening to think that you might not know something, but more frightening to think that, by and large, the world is run by people who have faith that they know exactly what is going on. ↗

— Amos Tversky

#truth #faith

To all those who have drawn the inference from my words that Africa, as a continent, is somehow genetically inferior, I can only apologise unreservedly. ↗

— James D. Watson

#apologise #continent #drawn #genetically #i

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

— Richard Wright

#evidence #inferences #leave #presented

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

#basis #beliefs #class #facts #held

People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false, a gift confers no rights. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#complete #confers #confidence #false #gift

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

#appropriate #bank #central #central bank #chance

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

#bill #bill of rights #entitled #every #government

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

— Francis Bacon

#constructions #hard #inferences #judges #laws

This fact immediately suggested a singular event - that at some time in the distant past the universe began expanding from an extremely small size. To many people this inference was loaded with overtones of a supernatural event - the creation, the beginning of the universe. ↗

— Michael Behe

#beginning #creation #distant #event #expanding

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

#comfort #deciding #gathered #higher #inferences