Conjectures Quotes

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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
The highest reach of a news-writer is an empty Reasoning on Policy, and vain Conjectures on the public Management. — Jean de la Bruyere
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
It is putting a very high price on one's conjectures to have someone roasted alive on their account. — Michel de Montaigne
Other people do not see you at all, but guess at you by uncertain conjectures. — 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 so, it was… — Jonathan Stroud

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