Conclusions Quotes

It has long been known that the chemical atomic weight of hydrogen was greater than one-quarter of that of helium, but so long as fractional weights were general there was no particular need to explain this fact, nor could any definite conclusions be drawn from it.

But I don't think I have any particular talent for prediction, because when you have three or four elements in hand, you don't have to be a genius to reach certain conclusions.

A few scattered accounts, collected and combined together, may lead us to two certain conclusions: 1. That all the American Indians are one kind of people; 2. That they are the same as the people in the northeast of Asia.

To succeed, jump as quickly at opportunities as you do at conclusions.

The method of exposition which philosophers have adopted leads many to suppose that they are simply inquiries, that they have no interest in the conclusions at which they arrive, and that their primary concern is to follow their premises to their logical conclusions.

I am turned into a sort of machine for observing facts and grinding out conclusions.

The true function of philosophy is to educate us in the principles of reasoning and not to put an end to further reasoning by the introduction of fixed conclusions.

We have the duty of formulating, of summarizing, and of communicating our conclusions, in intelligible form, in recognition of the right of other free minds to utilize them in making their own decisions.

Friends are generally of the same sex, for when men and women agree, it is only in the conclusions; their reasons are always different.

I think fiction isn't so good at being for or against things in general - the rhetorical argument a short story can make is only actualized by the accretion of particular details, and the specificity of these details renders whatever conclusions the story reaches invalid for wider application.

Enough research will tend to support your conclusions.

And it turned out that the Roberts Commission did not fully utilize the information available and that it came to conclusions which were I think quite short sighted and, indeed, in some cases, scapegoated individuals.

When men and women agree, it is only in their conclusions; their reasons are always different.

You have to let the viewers come away with their own conclusions. If you dictate what they should think, you've lost it.

The result is - document destruction - we're really not going to be able to prove beyond a truth the negatives and some of the positive conclusions that we're going to come to. There will be always unresolved ambiguity here.

Nature's music is never over; her silences are pauses, not conclusions.

But that the reasoning from these facts, the drawing from them correct conclusions, is a matter of great difficulty, may be inferred from the imperfect state in which the Science is now found after it has been so long and so intensely studied.

I went to the premiere of The Detective with Sinatra, and perhaps people jumped to conclusions. He was very protective towards me and never came on to me sexually.

It's not the heart that compels conclusions in cases, it's the law.

Man is too quick at forming conclusions.

People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant.

My mother cared more about how you reasoned than about the conclusions you reached.

As set forth by theologians, the idea of 'God' is an argument that assumes its own conclusions, and proves nothing.

I know people look at me and try to make conclusions about me immediately, based on the obvious, let's say.

Genius - to know without having learned; to draw just conclusions from unknown premises; to discern the soul of things.

Science fiction rarely is about scientists doing real science, in its slowness, its vagueness, the sort of tedious quality of getting out there and digging amongst rocks and then trying to convince people that what you're seeing justifies the conclusions you're making.

Of course you know this difference as well as I do, only you failed to draw from it the conclusions for the tactics in Western Europe, at least as far as I am able to judge from your works.

Experience seems to most of us to lead to conclusions, but empiricism has sworn never to draw them.

In Japan they prefer the realistic style. They like answers and conclusions, but my stories have none. I want to leave them wide open to every possibility. I think my readers understand that openness.

And let me take one of the explanations most commonly given: Analysts were pressured to reach conclusions that would fit the political agenda of one or another administration. I deeply think that is a wrong explanation.