Conjecture Quote by Karl Popper

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

When everyone does not agree with your ideas, it is necessary to make you change your speculation otherwise you will be left alone

— Mak_786

“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

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

The only new ideas that are not subject to our skepticism or suspicion are our own

— Cullen Hightower

An idea that no one believes can not be proved too often.

— George Bernard Shaw

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

Everybody liked better to conjecture how the thing was, than simply to know it; for conjecture soon became more confident than knowledge, and had…

— George Eliot

I strongly hold that, if an idea fits with common sense, then scientifically it is almost certain to be false.

— Lewis Wolpert

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

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

— Samuel Johnson