Human nature Quote by A.A. Bell

The guesses which serve to give mental unity and wholeness to a chaos of scattered particulars, are accidents which rarely occur to any minds…

— John Stuart Mill

“Predictions are just good guesses or stories for the gullible.”

— Wynne Channing

A guess is only good if it's right

— Jacob Towery

“Our knowledge does not help us to forecast the future, but it makes us more certain that our guesses are the right ones. In…

— Chris Carter

“Predictions are but guesses - when they come true, they are prophecies; when they don't, we salvage the situation by calling them allegories.”

— Mike Klepper

Educated guesswork' is what science is. You form hypotheses, test them against the evidence, and if they fit the evidence, you can assume you've…

— Alice Roberts

“If we accept the premise that we’re always wrong, it really removes the incentive to spend a lot of time trying to make good…

— James S.A. Corey

A prediction is a prediction because it's predictable.

— Robert Kiyosaki

“most methods disguise the guessing stage in some fancy language, such as “determine possible root causes.” This is making a list of guesses, and…

— Nat Greene

Fertility of imagination and abundance of guesses at truth are among the first requisites of discovery; but the erroneous guesses must almost of necessity…

— William Stanley Jevons

“A lot of what people did and said when they "predicted" things, Morey now realized, was phony: pretending to know things rather than actually…

— Michael Lewis

“In general, we look for a new law by the following process: First we guess it; then we compute the consequences of the guess…

— Richard P. Feynman