Quotes About Inference

You can't tell which way the train went by looking at the tracks.

You can't tell which way the train went by looking at the tracks.

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.

Science is the knowledge of consequences, and dependence of one fact upon another.

Filmmaking is not about what we see - it's a very misconceived notion; it's about what we don't see.

Data and data sets are not objective; they are creations of human design. We give numbers their voice, draw inferences from them, and define their meaning through our interpretations.

Otras dependen más de la deducción, esto es, de empezar partiendo de principios y postulados elegantes que se consideran sagrados, y luego deducir las consecuencias de ellos.

Tell me who your heroes are and I'll tell you how you'll turn out to be.

And concepts are crucial to cognition: cognitive scientists point out that they help us to categorize, learn, remember, infer, explain, problem-solve, generalize, analogize. Correspondingly, the lack of appropriate concepts can hinder learning, interfere with memory, block inferences, obstruct explanation, and perpetuate problems.

A tip from Lubitsch: 'Let the audience add up two plus two and they'll love you forever.

But you're examining and describing the cart, and from it postulating the horse.

An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.

Whenever you are examining someone else's belongings, you are bound to learn many interesting things about the person of which you were not previously aware.

The result of the mathematician's creative work is demonstrative reasoning, a proof; but the proof is discovered by plausible reasoning, by guessing.

Anytime I feel like I am beginning to explain the plot or characters too much my stomach churns. I like stories that let the characters speak for themselves and don't give you all the information.

Topology allows the possibility of making qualitative predictions when quantitative ones are impossible.

I couldn't have made a better shot, if I had been one of those detectives who see a chap walking along the street and deduce that he is a retired manufacturer of poppet valves named Robinson with rheumatism in one arm, living at Clapham.

If he's not gay and he hung out with you the whole time, he wanted to be. It's boyfriend or want to be boyfriend or I guess gay. Those are the choices.

À posteriori: reasoning from observed facts to general conclusions. À priori: reasoning from general propositions to particular conclusions.

For a writer, what you leave out says as much as those things you include. What lies beyond the margin of the text?

The impact of any particular writer on your own work is hard to discern.

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.

1 + 1 = 2 is simply an induction from experience. It is in no way logically or arithmetically 'necessary'. It is induced knowledge, on a par with 'All swans are white'.

Extrapolations are the last refuge of a groundless argument.