Adventure Quote by John Pringle Nichol

“What we have, in fact, is not a theory at all but a large collection of approximate calculations, together with a web of conjectures…

— Lee Smolin

The mind revels in conjecture. Where information is lacking, it will gladly fill in the gaps.

— James Geary

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

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 popular view that scientists proceed inexorably from well-established fact to well-established fact, never being influenced by any unproved conjecture, is quite mistaken. Provided…

— Andrew Hodges

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

— Karl Popper

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

I think if anything, what 'The Astonishing' proved is that we're always going to experiment.

— John Petrucci

You should not put too much trust in any unproved conjecture, even if it has been propounded by a great authority, even if it…

— George Polya

In reply, I can only plead that a discovery which seems to contradict the general tenor of previous investigations is naturally received with much…

— Charles Lyell

It reveals to me the causes of many natural phenomena that are entirely incomprehensible in the light of the generally accepted hypotheses. To refute…

— Galileo Galilei

My reasons are the same as for any mathematical conjecture: (1) It is a legitimate mathematical possibility, and (2) I do not know.

— Jack Edmonds