Conjecture Quote by James Geary

Our conjectures pass upon us for truths; we will know what we do not know, and often, what we cannot know: so mortifying to…

— Lord Chesterfield

I'm very happy for others to engage in conjecture, but if I was ever conscious of what I'm thinking about when I'm writing, oh…

— Peter Morgan

The entire annals of Observation probably do not elsewhere exhibit so extraordinary a verification of any theoretical conjecture adventured on by the human spirit!

— John Pringle Nichol

We have an unknown distance yet to run, an unknown river to explore. What falls there are, we know not; what rocks beset the…

— John Wesley Powell

Conjecture as to things useful, is good; but conjecture as to what it would be useless to know, is very idle.

— Samuel Johnson

We hate the very idea that our own ideas may be mistaken, so we cling dogmatically to our conjectures.

— Karl Popper

The possibilities for creation and insight are endless. We're constantly collecting more data, and it's starting to be very relevant to our lives.

— Aaron Koblin

Here is my theory on this one. If you write things down, if there is a mystery and you try and explain it, once…

— Joey Santiago

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

The rules of scientific investigation always require us, when we enter the domains of conjecture, to adopt that hypothesis by which the greatest number…

— Matthew Fontaine Maury

Something unknown is doing we don't know what-that is what our theory amounts to.

— Arthur Eddington

Bridge the gap with closed minds though careful dissection of ideas and solid presentation of fact.

— Maximillian Degenerez