Conjecture Quotes

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If a man dreams that he has committed a sin before which the sun hid his face, it is often safe to conjecture that, in… — Arthur Machen
The mind revels in conjecture. Where information is lacking, it will gladly fill in the gaps. — James Geary
A few of the sublimest geniuses of Rome and Athens had some faint discoveries of the spiritual nature of the human soul, and formed some… — David Brainerd
Alas! What is man? Whether he be deprived of that light which is from on high, of whether he discard it, a frail and trembling… — Charles Caleb Colton
Mathematics is the art of explanation. If you deny students the opportunity to engage in this activity-- to pose their own problems, to make their… — Paul Lockhart
For several weeks, I have been the subject of leaked stories, conjecture, and false attacks about a land exchange. None of them bear any resemblance… — Rick Renzi
The purpose of life is to conjecture and prove. — Paul Erdos
I 'm weary of conjectures,-this must end 'em. Thus am I doubly armed: my death and life, My bane and antidote, are both before me:… — Joseph Addison
A felicitous but unproved conjecture may be of much more consequence for mathematics than the proof of many a respectable theorem. — Atle Selberg
Mathematicians use intuition, conjecture and guesswork all the time except when they are in the classroom. — Joseph Warren
From Man or Angel the great Architect Did wisely to conceal, and not divulge, His secrets, to be scanned by them who ought Rather admire.… — John Milton
From the almost total absence of fossil evidence relative to the origin of the phyla, it follows that any explanation of the mechanism in the… — Pierre-Paul Grasse
Every conjecture we can form with regard to the works of God has as little probability as the conjectures of a child with regard to… — Thomas Reid
Such self-transformation is the most difficult and dangerous challenge to the imagination, and it is the most rewarding. Meeting it is only possible for the… — Robert Grudin
At bottom, textual criticism for virtually all other ancient literature relies on creative conjectures, or imaginative guesses, at reconstructing the wording of the original. Not… — Daniel B. Wallace
To believe straight away is foolishness, to believe after having seen clearly is good sense. That is the Buddhist policy in belief; not to believe… — Buddhadasa
I think now I'm being taken a little more seriously. That's pure conjecture on my part. — Tom Wopat
Ah! my dear Watson, there we come into those realms of conjecture, where the most logical mind may be at fault. Sherlock Holmes speaking with… — Arthur Conan Doyle
The art of discovering the causes of phenomena, or true hypothesis, is like the art of decyphering, in which an ingenious conjecture greatly shortens the… — Gottfried Leibniz
Mathematics is about problems, and problems must be made the focus of a student's mathematical life. Painful and creatively frustrating as it may be, students… — Paul Lockhart

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