We hate the very idea that our own ideas may be mistaken, so we cling dogmatically to our conjectures. — Karl Popper 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
We know the effects of many things, but the cause of few; experience, therefore, is a surer guide than imagination, and inquiry… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
The art of discovering the causes of phenomena, or true hypotheses, is like the art of deciphering, in which an ingenious conjecture… — Gottfried Leibniz Copy Share Image
What song the Syrens sang, or what name Achilles assumed when he hid himself among women, though puzzling questions, are not beyond… — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
History is only conjecture, and the best historians try to do it as accurately as they can. They try to accurately reassemble… — Ridley Scott Copy Share Image
The entire annals of Observation probably do not elsewhere exhibit so extraordinary a verification of any theoretical conjecture adventured on by the… — John Pringle Nichol Copy Share Image
Everybody liked better to conjecture how the thing was, than simply to know it; for conjecture soon became more confident than knowledge,… — George Eliot 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
Rumour is a pipe Blown by surmises, jealousies, conjectures And of so easy and so plain a stop That the blunt monster… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
To do mathematics is to engage in an act of discovery and conjecture, intuition and inspiration; to be in a state of… — Paul Lockhart Copy Share Image
“There is no room in History for conjecture. History is fact because it deals with facts, you’ll learn in time...' 'Fuck that,… — D.L. Christopher Copy Share Image
A mathematician experiments, amasses information, makes a conjecture, finds out that it does not work, gets confused and then tries to recover.… — Steven G. Krantz Copy Share Image
A line partakes of the simplicity of a point more than does a surface; and a surface [partakes thereof more] than does… — Nicholas of Cusa 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
When we look to presumed sources of origin for competing evolutionary explanations of the giraffe's long neck, we find either nothing at… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
But there are times when men have serious thoughts, and it is at such times, when they begin to think, that they… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“Finiteness is not the only example in string theory of a conjecture that is widely believed but so far unproved.” — Lee Smolin Copy Share Image
There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Experience, already reduced to a group of impressions, is ringed round for each one of us by that thick wall of personality… — Walter Pater Copy Share Image
If a man dreams that he has committed a sin before which the sun hid his face, it is often safe to… — Arthur Machen Copy Share Image
“Now Aristotle says that the judgment which follows knowledge is in truth faith. Accordingly, faith is something superior to knowledge, and is… — Clement of Alexandria Copy Share Image
The classes of problems which are respectively known and not known to have good algorithms are of great theoretical interest. [...] I… — Jack Edmonds Copy Share Image
I was so frivolous for so many years. It was so much fun, but you feel guilty about the brain energy you… — Chelsea Handler Copy Share Image
This place is the Devil, or at least his principal residence, they call it the University, but any other appellation would have… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
For several weeks, I have been the subject of leaked stories, conjecture, and false attacks about a land exchange. None of them… — Rick Renzi Copy Share Image
There are those who feel an imperative need to believe, for whom the values of a belief are proportionate not to its… — C. E. M. Joad Copy Share Image
Such self-transformation is the most difficult and dangerous challenge to the imagination, and it is the most rewarding. Meeting it is only… — Robert Grudin Copy Share Image
I think it actually makes more sense for a new audience than the old show did because we're focusing on one character… — Mitchell Hurwitz Copy Share Image
The world, and whatever that be which we call the heavens, by the vault of which all things are enclosed, we must… — Pliny the Elder Copy Share Image
“The popular view that scientists proceed inexorably from well-established fact to well-established fact, never being influenced by any unproved conjecture, is quite… — Andrew Hodges Copy Share Image
A private man has always the liberty (because thought is free) to believe or not believe in his heart those acts that… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
At bottom, textual criticism for virtually all other ancient literature relies on creative conjectures, or imaginative guesses, at reconstructing the wording of… — Daniel B. Wallace Copy Share Image
We must consider how very little history there is--I mean real, authentic history. That certain kings reigned and certain battles were fought,… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Physiognomy is not a guide that has been given us by which to judge of the character of men: it may only… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
We have an unknown distance yet to run, an unknown river to explore. What falls there are, we know not; what rocks… — John Wesley Powell Copy Share Image
Given a conjecture, the best thing is to prove it. The second best thing is to disprove it. The third best thing… — Saharon Shelah Copy Share Image
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