Other people do not see you at all, but guess at you by uncertain conjectures. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The mind revels in conjecture. Where information is lacking, it will gladly fill in the gaps. — James Geary 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
“Your conjecture is totally wrong, I assure you. My mind was more agreeably engaged. I have been meditating on the very great… — Jane Austen 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
Far from creating a new formalism, what these can yield is something far transcending surface values since they not only embody form… — Max Bill Copy Share Image
A few of the sublimest geniuses of Rome and Athens had some faint discoveries of the spiritual nature of the human soul,… — David Brainerd Copy Share Image
The rules of scientific investigation always require us, when we enter the domains of conjecture, to adopt that hypothesis by which the… — Matthew Fontaine Maury 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
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
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
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
All doctrines relating to the creation of the world, the government of man by superior beings, and his destiny after death, are… — William Winwood Reade 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
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
My conjecture is that most people will refuse to let go, even when their lives have become boring (at least in comparisons… — Torbjorn Tannsjo Copy Share Image
Mathematics is about problems, and problems must be made the focus of a student's mathematical life. Painful and creatively frustrating as it… — Paul Lockhart 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
“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 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
“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
I think now I'm being taken a little more seriously. That's pure conjecture on my part. — Tom Wopat Copy Share Image
We have an unknown distance yet to run, an unknown river to explore. — John Wesley Powell Copy Share Image
OBSERVATORY, n. A place where astronomers conjecture away the guesses of their predecessors. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image