Conjecture Quote by John Wesley Powell Download Open image “We have an unknown distance yet to run, an unknown river to explore.” — John Wesley Powell ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Conjecture Distance Rivers Running
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 Copy Share Image
We are now ready to start on our way down the Great Unknown. Our boats...are chafing each other, as they are tossed by the… — John Wesley Powell Copy Share Image
Rivers are roads which move, and which carry us whither we desire to go. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
To connect with the great river we all need a path, but when you get down there there's only one river. — Matthew Fox Copy Share Image
Sooner or later you must move down an unknown road that leads beyond the range of the imagination, and the only certainty is that… — Bruce Catton Copy Share Image
Just as a drop of water in the ocean cannot avail much; but if a great river runneth into it, that maketh a great… — Jakob Bohme Copy Share Image
There comes a point where we need to stop just pulling people out of the river. We need to go upstream and find out… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
You and I can turn and look at the silent river and wait. We know the current is there, hidden; and there are comings… — William Stafford Copy Share Image
Years of drought and famine come and years of flood and famine come, and the climate is not changed with dance, libation or prayer. — John Wesley Powell Copy Share Image
Indian nouns are extremely connotive; that is, the name does more than simply denote the thing to which it belongs - in denoting the… — John Wesley Powell Copy Share Image
The wonders of the Grand Canyon cannot be adequately represented in symbols of speech, nor by speech itself. The resources of the graphic art… — John Wesley Powell Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
We are now ready to start on our way down the Great Unknown. Our boats...are chafing each other, as they are tossed by the… — John Wesley Powell Copy Share Image
The landscape everywhere, away from the river, is of rock - cliffs of rock; plateaus of rock; terraces of rock; crags of rock -… — John Wesley Powell Copy Share Image
The verb is relatively of much greater importance in an Indian tongue than in a civilized language. — John Wesley Powell Copy Share Image
Possible ideas and thoughts are vast in number. A distinct word for every distinct idea and thought would require a vast vocabulary. The problem… — John Wesley Powell Copy Share Image
I am not sure that we can climb out of the canyon here, and, when at the top of the wall, I know enough… — John Wesley Powell Copy Share Image
The elements that unite to make the Grand Canyon the most sublime spectacle in nature are multifarious and exceedingly diverse. — John Wesley Powell Copy Share Image
The integers of language are sentences, and their organs are the parts of speech. Linguistic organization, then, consists in the differentiation of the parts… — John Wesley Powell Copy Share Image
The landscape everywhere, away from the river, is of rock, cliffs of rock, tables of rock, plateaus of rock, terraces of rock, crags of… — John Wesley Powell Copy Share Image
But there are times when men have serious thoughts, and it is at such times, when they begin to think, that they begin to… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
The classes of problems which are respectively known and not known to have good algorithms are of great theoretical interest. [...] I conjecture that… — Jack Edmonds Copy Share Image
From the almost total absence of fossil evidence relative to the origin of the phyla, it follows that any explanation of the mechanism in… — Pierre-Paul Grasse Copy Share Image
Rumour is a pipe Blown by surmises, jealousies, conjectures And of so easy and so plain a stop That the blunt monster with uncounted… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
The artist may be well advised to keep his work to himself till it is completed, because no one can readily help him or… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I think everybody handles things very differently and you can conjecture, but until you're put in that situation, you really don't know. — Laura Linney Copy Share Image
Physiognomy is not a guide that has been given us by which to judge of the character of men: it may only serve us… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
“Now Aristotle says that the judgment which follows knowledge is in truth faith. Accordingly, faith is something superior to knowledge, and is its criterion.… — Clement of Alexandria Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“Fundamental values (such as equality and human rights) should not be held hostage to some factual conjecture about blank slates that might be refuted… — Stephen Pinker Copy Share Image
“In science's pecking order, evolutionary biology lurks somewhere near the bottom, far closer to phrenology than to physics. For evolutionary biology is a historical… — Jerry A. Coyne Copy Share Image
