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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
We hate the very idea that our own ideas may be mistaken, so we cling dogmatically to our conjectures. — Karl Popper 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe, the more often and steadily we reflect upon them:… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
When we seek a textbook case for the proper operation of science, the correction of certain error offers far more promise than… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Ourselves are cosmic and capacious beyond conjecture, and to experience some notion of the planetary perspective is the richest income from travelling.… — Amos Bronson Alcott Copy Share Image
Whether a law be void for its repugnancy to the Constitution, is, at all times, a question of much delicacy, which out… — John Marshall Copy Share Image
All these delusions of Divination have their root and foundation from Astrology. For whether the lineaments of the body, countenance, or hand… — Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa 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
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
“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
“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
“[...] 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
I think now I'm being taken a little more seriously. That's pure conjecture on my part. — Tom Wopat Copy Share Image