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Conjecture Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- 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,…
- Conjecture as to things useful, is good; but conjecture as to what it would be useless to know, is very idle.
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- The atheist risk everything for the present and the future, on the basis of a belief that we are uncaused by any… — 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… — Louis Agassiz
- 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
- We have an unknown distance yet to run, an unknown river to explore. What falls there are, we know not; what rocks… — John Wesley Powell
- To die for an idea is to set a rather high price upon conjecture. — Anatole France
- 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
- It is putting a very high price on one's conjectures to have someone roasted alive on their account. — Michel de Montaigne
- Can you define "plan" as "a loose sequence of manifestly inadequate observations and conjectures, held together by panic, indecision, and ignorance"? If… — Jonathan Stroud