There is no room in History for conjecture. History is…

History is only conjecture, and the best historians try to do it as accurately as they can. They try to accurately reassemble the facts…

— Ridley Scott

We must consider how very little history there is--I mean real, authentic history. That certain kings reigned and certain battles were fought, we can…

— Samuel Johnson

“The dirty secret about history is how much of it is conjecture.”

— Erika Swyler

One of the reasons we do history, in fact, is because it acts as a brake, a control, on our otherwise unbridled enthusiasm for…

— N. T. Wright

“Fundamental values (such as equality and human rights) should not be held hostage to some factual conjecture about blank slates that might be refuted…

— Stephen Pinker

We have to learn again that science without contact with experiments is an enterprise which is likely to go completely astray into imaginary conjecture.

— Hannes Alfven

“Now Aristotle says that the judgment which follows knowledge is in truth faith. Accordingly, faith is something superior to knowledge, and is its criterion.…

— Clement of Alexandria

Physiognomy is not a guide that has been given us by which to judge of the character of men: it may only serve us…

— Jean de la Bruyere

I shall not mingle conjectures with certainties.

— Isaac Newton

I think everybody handles things very differently and you can conjecture, but until you're put in that situation, you really don't know.

— Laura Linney

The artist may be well advised to keep his work to himself till it is completed, because no one can readily help him or…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Rumour is a pipe Blown by surmises, jealousies, conjectures And of so easy and so plain a stop That the blunt monster with uncounted…

— William Shakespeare

From the almost total absence of fossil evidence relative to the origin of the phyla, it follows that any explanation of the mechanism in…

— Pierre-Paul Grasse

The classes of problems which are respectively known and not known to have good algorithms are of great theoretical interest. [...] I conjecture that…

— Jack Edmonds

But there are times when men have serious thoughts, and it is at such times, when they begin to think, that they begin to…

— Thomas Paine