We have an unknown distance yet to run, an unknown river to explore. — John Wesley Powell Copy Share Image
I think now I'm being taken a little more seriously. That's pure conjecture on my part. — Tom Wopat Copy Share Image
Other people do not see you at all, but guess at you by uncertain conjectures. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Everyone has this conjecture that action films are somewhat less prestigious than dramatic films. Nothing could be further from the truth. I've… — Sylvester Stallone Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
It is putting a very high price on one's conjectures to have someone roasted alive on their account. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The highest reach of a news-writer is an empty Reasoning on Policy, and vain Conjectures on the public Management. — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
The ocean is the last frontier of human empirical knowledge; even the contours on that eighth-grader's globe are the product of a… — Alan Huffman Copy Share Image
You can't know what the future holds, though you might conjecture on it, and if you're psychic, you might venture a guess. — Jonathan Raymond Copy Share Image
My reasons are the same as for any mathematical conjecture: (1) It is a legitimate mathematical possibility, and (2) I do not know. — Jack Edmonds Copy Share Image
Can you define "plan" as "a loose sequence of manifestly inadequate observations and conjectures, held together by panic, indecision, and ignorance"? If… — Jonathan Stroud Copy Share Image
The artist may be well advised to keep his work to himself till it is completed, because no one can readily help… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Their origin is commonly unknown; for the practice often continues when the cause has ceased, and concerning superstitious ceremonies it is in… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
No state sorrier than that of the man who keeps up a continual round, and pries into "the secrets of the nether… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
To believe straight away is foolishness, to believe after having seen clearly is good sense. That is the Buddhist policy in belief;… — Buddhadasa Copy Share Image
[Great scientists] are men of bold ideas, but highly critical of their own ideas: they try to find whether their ideas are… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
Do not walk in the path of human reason, and resist the pressures that would project you into conjectures about the future.… — Frances J Roberts Copy Share Image
There may be a soul of the world, there may be ... a psychical side, of which we are not aware, to… — John Grier Hibben Copy Share Image
You should not put too much trust in any unproved conjecture, even if it has been propounded by a great authority, even… — George Polya Copy Share Image
In the space of one hundred and seventy-six years the Mississippi has shortened itself two hundred and forty-two miles. Therefore, in the… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“In science's pecking order, evolutionary biology lurks somewhere near the bottom, far closer to phrenology than to physics. For evolutionary biology is… — Jerry A. Coyne Copy Share Image
While the scientist, on the one hand, is concerned with giving a faithful description of facts, on the other, he has the… — Marie Taylor Collins Swabey Copy Share Image
I 'm weary of conjectures,-this must end 'em. Thus am I doubly armed: my death and life, My bane and antidote, are… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
The wisdom of God exceeds that of the wisest man, more than his wisdom exceeds that of a child. If a child… — Thomas Reid Copy Share Image
From the almost total absence of fossil evidence relative to the origin of the phyla, it follows that any explanation of the… — Pierre-Paul Grasse Copy Share Image
Alas! What is man? Whether he be deprived of that light which is from on high, of whether he discard it, a… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
So in this case, Kalamas, don't go by reports, by legends, by traditions, by scripture, by logical conjecture, by inference, by analogies,… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
“[...] if truth be told, evolution hasn’t yielded many practical or commercial benefits. Yes, bacteria evolve drug resistance, and yes, we must… — Jerry A. Coyne Copy Share Image
“The Coach’s head was oblong with tiny slits that served as eyes, which drifted in tides slowly inward, as though the face… — Ashim Shanker Copy Share Image
If there are other worlds elsewhere in the universe, I would conjecture they are governed by the same laws of natural selection. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“Fundamental values (such as equality and human rights) should not be held hostage to some factual conjecture about blank slates that might… — Stephen Pinker Copy Share Image
Conjecture as to things useful, is good; but conjecture as to what it would be useless to know, is very idle. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Every conjecture we can form with regard to the works of God has as little probability as the conjectures of a child… — Thomas Reid Copy Share Image
There are always so many conjectures as to the issue of any event that, whatever the outcome, there will always be people… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image