"Conjecture as to things useful, is good; but……" — Samuel Johnson

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• The entire annals of Observation probably do not elsewhere exhibit so extraordinary a verification of any theoretical conjecture adventured on… — Unknown Author
• I have been speculating last night what makes a man a discoverer of undiscovered things. As far as I can… — Charles Darwin
• There are always so many conjectures as to the issue of any event that, whatever the outcome, there will always… — Leo Tolstoy
• The atheist risk everything for the present and the future, on the basis of a belief that we are uncaused… — Ravi Zacharias
• The world has arisen in some way or another. How it originated is the great question, and Darwin's theory, like… — Louis Agassiz
• The rules of scientific investigation always require us, when we enter the domains of conjecture, to adopt that hypothesis by… — Matthew Fontaine Maury
• The development of mathematics toward greater precision has led, as is well known, to the formalization of large tracts of… — Kurt Gödel
• Having always observed that most of them who constantly took in the weekly Bills of Mortality made little other use… — Unknown Author
• Nothing is known in our profession by guess; and I do not believe, that from the first dawn of medical… — Astley Cooper
• In geology we cannot dispense with conjectures: [but] because we are condemned to dream let us ensure that our dreams… — Unknown Author
• We have an unknown distance yet to run, an unknown river to explore. What falls there are, we know not;… — John Wesley Powell
• This place is the Devil, or at least his principal residence, they call it the University, but any other appellation… — Lord Byron

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