Conjecture Quote by Paul Erdos Download Open image “The purpose of life is to conjecture and prove.” — Paul Erdos ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Conjecture Life Life is Mathematics Prove Purpose Purpose of life
The purpose of life is the investigation of the Sun, the Moon, and the heavens. — Anaxagoras Copy Share Image
There is one purpose to life and one only: to bear witness to and understand as much as possible of the complexity of the… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
The purpose of life is to obey the hidden command which ensures harmony among all and creates an ever better world. We are not… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
Mathematics is the surest way to immortality. If you make a big discovery in mathematics, you will be remembered after everyone else will be… — Paul Erdos Copy Share Image
“It is not enough to be in the right place at the right time. You should also have an open mind at the right… — Paul Erdős Copy Share Image
A Mathematician is someone who can take a cup of coffee and turn it into a theory. — Paul Erdos Copy Share Image
Some French socialist said that private property was theft... I say that private property is a nuisance. — Paul Erdos Copy Share Image
“In a way, mathematics is the only infinite human activity. It is conceivable that humanity could eventually learn everything in physics or biology. But… — Paul Erdős Copy Share Image
The SF [Supreme Fascist, i.e. God] created us to enjoy our suffering. The sooner we die, the sooner we defy His plans. — Paul Erdos Copy Share Image
“[ When asked why are numbers beautiful ?] It’s like asking why is Ludwig van Beethoven ’s Ninth Symphony beautiful. If you don't see… — Paul Erdos Copy Share Image
I'll tell you once, and I'll tell you again. There's always a prime between n and 2n. — Paul Erdos Copy Share Image
When I was a child, the Earth was said to be two billion years old. Now scientists say it's four and a half billion.… — Paul Erdos Copy Share Image
“When he said someone had 'died', Erdős meant that that the person had stopped doing mathematics. When he said someone had 'left', the person… — Paul Erdős Copy Share Image
It will be another million years, at least, before we understand the primes. — Paul Erdos 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
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