Conjecture Quote by Samuel Johnson

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

— James Geary

“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

Our conjectures pass upon us for truths; we will know what we do not know, and often, what we cannot know: so mortifying to…

— Lord Chesterfield

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

A mathematician experiments, amasses information, makes a conjecture, finds out that it does not work, gets confused and then tries to recover. A good…

— Steven G. Krantz

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

There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.

— Mark Twain

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

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

If anyone offers conjectures about the truth of things from the mere possibility of hypotheses, I do not see by what stipulation anything certain…

— Isaac Newton

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

— Karl Popper