Conjecture Quotes

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The entire annals of Observation probably do not elsewhere exhibit so extraordinary a verification of any theoretical conjecture adventured on by the human spirit! — John Pringle Nichol
I have been speculating last night what makes a man a discoverer of undiscovered things. As far as I can conjecture the art consists in… — Charles Darwin
There are always so many conjectures as to the issue of any event that, whatever the outcome, there will always be people to say: 'I… — Leo Tolstoy
The atheist risk everything for the present and the future, on the basis of a belief that we are uncaused by any intelligent being. We… — Ravi Zacharias
The world has arisen in some way or another. How it originated is the great question, and Darwin's theory, like all other attempts, to explain… — Louis Agassiz
The rules of scientific investigation always require us, when we enter the domains of conjecture, to adopt that hypothesis by which the greatest number of… — Matthew Fontaine Maury
The development of mathematics toward greater precision has led, as is well known, to the formalization of large tracts of it, so that one can… — Kurt GÃ¶del
Having always observed that most of them who constantly took in the weekly Bills of Mortality made little other use of them than to look… — John Graunt
Nothing is known in our profession by guess; and I do not believe, that from the first dawn of medical science to the present moment,… — Astley Cooper
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… — Scipione Breislak
We have an unknown distance yet to run, an unknown river to explore. What falls there are, we know not; what rocks beset the channel,… — John Wesley Powell
This place is the Devil, or at least his principal residence, they call it the University, but any other appellation would have suited it much… — Lord Byron
To die for an idea is to set a rather high price upon conjecture. — Anatole France
So in this case, Kalamas, don't go by reports, by legends, by traditions, by scripture, by logical conjecture, by inference, by analogies, by agreement through… — Gautama Buddha
Do not believe what you have heard Do not believe in tradition because it is handed down many generations Do not believe in anything that… — Gautama Buddha
The appearance and retirement of actors are the great events of the theatrical world; and their first performances fill the pit with conjecture and prognostication,… — Samuel Johnson
The artist may be well advised to keep his work to himself till it is completed, because no one can readily help him or advise… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Experience, already reduced to a group of impressions, is ringed round for each one of us by that thick wall of personality through which no… — Walter Pater
Following the enormous conjecture in the press, I wish to confirm that I have been tested HIV positive and have AIDS. I felt it correct… — Freddie Mercury
To do mathematics is to engage in an act of discovery and conjecture, intuition and inspiration; to be in a state of confusion âˆ’ not… — Paul Lockhart

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