Guesswork Quotes

23 quotes by 21 authors

Computers are like bikinis. They save people a lot of guesswork. — Sam Ewing
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
Mathematics is not a deductive science-that's a clichÃ©. When you try to prove a theorem, you don't just list the hypotheses, and then start to… — Paul Halmos
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
... 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
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
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
Mathematics is not a deductive science, that's a clichÃ© ... What you do is trial and error, experimentation, guesswork. — Paul Halmos
Mathematicians use intuition, conjecture and guesswork all the time except when they are in the classroom. — Joseph Warren
The computer saves man a lot of guesswork, but so does the bikini. — Evan Esar
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
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
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
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
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
Cooking requires confident guesswork and improvisation-- experimentation and substitution, dealing with failure and uncertainty in a creative way — Paul Theroux
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
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
We are here and it is now. The way I see it is, after that, everything tends towards guesswork. — Terry Pratchett
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: