Guesswork Quotes
23 quotes by 21 authors
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Computers are like bikinis. They save people a lot of guesswork.
— Sam Ewing
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The Moon and Mars were the two most likely candidates for life in the solar system; what exists beyond our solar system is mere guesswork.
— Walter Lang
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Mathematics is not a deductive science-that's a cliché. When you try to prove a theorem, you don't just list the hypotheses, and then start to…
— Paul Halmos
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There was of course no way of knowing whether you were being watched at any given moment. How often, or on what system, the Thought…
— George Orwell
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... those who are absolutely certain that the rise in temperatures is due solely to carbon dioxide have no scientific justification. It's pure guesswork.
— Henrik Svensmark
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The spirit of Christianity proclaims the brotherhood of the race and the meaning of that strong word has not been left to guesswork, but made…
— Mark Twain
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The fact is that everybody around a college basketball game - the coaches, the announcers, even the referees at a lower level - calculates when…
— Bill James
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Mathematics is not a deductive science, that's a cliché ... What you do is trial and error, experimentation, guesswork.
— Paul Halmos
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Mathematicians use intuition, conjecture and guesswork all the time except when they are in the classroom.
— Joseph Warren
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The computer saves man a lot of guesswork, but so does the bikini.
— Evan Esar
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A love story - your own, or anyone else's - is interior, hidden. It can never be accurately reported, only imagined. It is all dreams…
— Joan Wickersham
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Fiction is not a dream. Nor is it guesswork. It is imagining based on facts, and the facts must be accurate or the work of…
— Margaret Culkin Banning
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My great-grandfather Melvin had been a carpenter - so was my father - and they taught me the value of tools: saws, hammers, chisels, files…
— Yusef Komunyakaa
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From this point forth, we shall be leaving the firm foundation of fact and journeying together through the murky marshes of memory into thickets of…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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But is all this true?" said Brutha. Didactylos shrugged. "Could be. Could be. We are here and it is now. The way I see it…
— Terry Pratchett
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Cooking requires confident guesswork and improvisation-- experimentation and substitution, dealing with failure and uncertainty in a creative way
— Paul Theroux
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But God!Who could live like this , anyway, with the kind of guesswork that was enough to make a person crazy, just sailing along, taking…
— Sarah Dessen
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I remembered Nahadoth's lips on my throat and fought to suppress a shudder, only half succeeding. Death as a consequence of lying with a god…
— N.K. Jemisin
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We are here and it is now. The way I see it is, after that, everything tends towards guesswork.
— Terry Pratchett
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A mathematician's work is mostly a tangle of guesswork, analogy, wishful thinking and frustration, and proof, far from being the core of discovery, is more…
— Gian-Carlo Rota
Who Wrote These Guesswork Quotes
21 authors contributed a total of 23 Guesswork Quotes as follows: