Conjecture Quote by Mark Twain

“There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact. —MARK TWAIN”

— Michael Crichton

“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 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

There is actually a fair amount of money being put behind science today.

— David Baltimore

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

Science requires speculation, creativity, and wild ideas.

— Debra Fischer

“In the Order we call it ‘inverse profundity.’ We’ve observed it in any number of cases. The deeper you go into the cosmic mysteries,…

— Lev Grossman

A good hypothesis in science must have other properties than those of the phenomenon it is immediately invoked to explain, otherwise it is not…

— William James

“The same trend is noticeable in the scientific realm: research here is for its own sake far more than for the partial and fragmentary…

— René Guénon

science has now been for a long time - and to an ever-increasing extent - a collective enterprise. Actually, new results are always, in…

— Simone Weil

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

What really makes science grow is new ideas, including false ideas.

— Karl Popper