The mind revels in conjecture. Where information is lacking, it will gladly fill in the gaps. — James Geary Copy Share Image
A satirist, often in danger himself, has the bravery of knowing that to withhold wit's conjecture is to endanger the species. — Penelope Gilliatt Copy Share Image
A felicitous but unproved conjecture may be of much more consequence for mathematics than the proof of many a respectable theorem. — Atle Selberg Copy Share Image
Our conjectures pass upon us for truths; we will know what we do not know, and often, what we cannot know: so… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
Mathematicians use intuition, conjecture and guesswork all the time except when they are in the classroom. — Joseph Warren Copy Share Image
Now entertain conjecture of a time When creeping murmur and the poring dark Fills the wide vessel of the universe. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Scientists have no agreed theory of the origin of life - plenty of scenarios, conjectures and just-so stories, but nothing with solid… — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
Sometimes, I look out at nature and I think, 'Everything here is obeying my conjecture.' It's a wonderfully narcissistic feeling. — Geoffrey West Copy Share Image
Now entertain conjecture of a time, When creeping murmur and the pouring dark Fill the wide vessel of the universe... Chorus Henry… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In the first day of the Soviet Army's arrival, I and the other comrades were isolated and then found ourselves here, not… — Alexander Dubcek Copy Share Image
I believe in this being, not because I have any proper or direct knowledge of His existence, but I am at a… — William Godwin Copy Share Image
I have been speculating last night what makes a man a discoverer of undiscovered things. As far as I can conjecture the… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Every theory in philosophy, which is built on pure conjecture, is an elephant; and every theory that is supported partly by fact,… — Thomas Reid Copy Share Image
In geology we cannot dispense with conjectures: [but] because we are condemned to dream let us ensure that our dreams are like… — Scipione Breislak Copy Share Image
No one but yourself knows whether you are cowardly and cruel, or loyal and devout; others do not see you; they surmise… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Mathematics is the art of explanation. If you deny students the opportunity to engage in this activity-- to pose their own problems,… — Paul Lockhart Copy Share Image
To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age. Tis much better… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
The agnostic does not simply say, "l do not know." He goes another step, and he says, with great emphasis, that you… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Following the enormous conjecture in the press, I wish to confirm that I have been tested HIV positive and have AIDS. I… — Freddie Mercury Copy Share Image
The importance of the romantic element does not rest upon conjecture. Pleasing testimonies abound. Hannah More traced her earliest impressions of virtue… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
You could hear the wind in the leaves, and on that wind traveled the screams of the kids on the playground in… — John Green Copy Share Image
Following the enormous conjecture in the press over the last two weeks, I wish to confirm that I have been tested HIV… — Freddie Mercury Copy Share Image
The development of mathematics toward greater precision has led, as is well known, to the formalization of large tracts of it, so… — Kurt Gödel Copy Share Image
“Having always observed that most of them who constantly took in the weekly Bills of Mortality made little other use of them… — John Graunt Copy Share Image
If a man in order to shoot a hare, were to discharge thousands of guns on a great moor in all possible… — J. W. N. Sullivan Copy Share Image
“A man that is of Copernicus ’ Opinion, that this Earth of ours is a Planet, carry’d round and enlightn’d by the… — Christiaan Huygens 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
Ah! my dear Watson, there we come into those realms of conjecture, where the most logical mind may be at fault. Sherlock… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
I desire that your conjectures should not reach beyond your creative will. Could you create a god? Then do not speak to… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
We have to learn again that science without contact with experiments is an enterprise which is likely to go completely astray into… — Hannes Alfven Copy Share Image
The atheist risk everything for the present and the future, on the basis of a belief that we are uncaused by any… — Ravi Zacharias Copy Share Image
Without the knowledge of the true number of the people, as a principle, the whole scope and use of keeping bills of… — William Petty Copy Share Image
The appearance and retirement of actors are the great events of the theatrical world; and their first performances fill the pit with… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The world has arisen in some way or another. How it originated is the great question, and Darwin's theory, like all other… — Louis Agassiz 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
It is clear that there is no classification of the Universe that is not arbitrary and full of conjectures. The reason for… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
From Man or Angel the great Architect Did wisely to conceal, and not divulge, His secrets, to be scanned by them who… — John Milton Copy Share Image
Do not believe what you have heard Do not believe in tradition because it is handed down many generations Do not believe… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
![“In geology we cannot dispense with conjectures: [but] because we are condemned to dream let us ensure that our dreams are like those of sane men-e.g. that they have their foundations in truth-and are not like the dreams of the sick, formed by strange combinations of phantasms, contrary to nature…” quote by Scipione Breislak](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/b0d/scipione-breislak-112774_combination_in-geology-we-cannot-dispense-with-conje_3121770.jpg)
