Conjecture Quotes

72 quotes by 63 authors

Far from creating a new formalism, what these can yield is something far transcending surface values since they not only embody form as beauty, but… — Max Bill
In the space of one hundred and seventy-six years the Mississippi has shortened itself two hundred and forty-two miles. Therefore, in the Old Silurian Period… — Mark Twain
What song the Syrens sang, or what name Achilles assumed when he hid himself among women, though puzzling questions, are not beyond all conjecture. — Thomas Browne
It is well to fetter the wings of our fancy and restrain its flights. It is quite possible we may have formed entirely erroneous ideas… — Edward E. Barnard
Everybody liked better to conjecture how the thing was, than simply to know it; for conjecture soon became more confident than knowledge, and had a… — George Eliot
Rumor is a pipe Blown by surmises, jealousies, conjectures. — William Shakespeare
Scientists have no agreed theory of the origin of life - plenty of scenarios, conjectures and just-so stories, but nothing with solid experimental support. — Paul Davies
We have to learn again that science without contact with experiments is an enterprise which is likely to go completely astray into imaginary conjecture. — Hannes Alfven
OBSERVATORY, n. A place where astronomers conjecture away the guesses of their predecessors. — Ambrose Bierce
No one but yourself knows whether you are cowardly and cruel, or loyal and devout; others do not see you; they surmise you by uncertain… — Michel de Montaigne
I desire that your conjectures should not reach beyond your creative will. Could you create a god? Then do not speak to me of any… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Conjecture as to things useful, is good; but conjecture as to what it would be useless to know, is very idle. — Samuel Johnson
Ourselves are cosmic and capacious beyond conjecture, and to experience some notion of the planetary perspective is the richest income from travelling. It takes all… — Amos Bronson Alcott
In the discovery of secret things and in the investigation of hidden causes, stronger reasons are obtained from sure experiments and demonstrated arguments than from… — W. S. Gilbert
In politics a capable ruler must be guided by circumstances, conjectures and conjunctions. — Catherine the Great
You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world. — William Hazlitt
There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact. — Mark Twain
Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe, the more often and steadily we reflect upon them: the starry heavens… — Immanuel Kant
Now entertain conjecture of a time, When creeping murmur and the pouring dark Fill the wide vessel of the universe... Chorus Henry V — William Shakespeare
It is putting a very high price on one's conjectures to have someone roasted alive on their account. — Michel de Montaigne

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