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There is no law, there is only conjecture. The Progressive ethos changes the law's meaning according to fad and fashion. — A.E. Samaan

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

You can't know what the future holds, though you might conjecture on it, and if you're psychic, you might venture a guess. — Jonathan Raymond

We know the effects of many things, but the cause of few; experience, therefore, is a surer guide than imagination, and inquiry than conjecture. — Charles Caleb Colton

A satirist, often in danger himself, has the bravery of knowing that to withhold wit's conjecture is to endanger the species. — Penelope Gilliatt

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

We are suffering from a plethora of surmise, conjecture, and hypothesis. — Arthur Conan Doyle

My answers are typically 'guesses' cleverly disguised as answers. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

Sometimes, I look out at nature and I think, 'Everything here is obeying my conjecture.' It's a wonderfully narcissistic feeling. — Geoffrey West

Mathematicians use intuition, conjecture and guesswork all the time except when they are in the classroom. — Joseph Warren

OBSERVATORY, n. A place where astronomers conjecture away the guesses of their predecessors. — Ambrose Bierce

History is conjecture raised to the level of an art. — Marty Rubin

If there are other worlds elsewhere in the universe, I would conjecture they are governed by the same laws of natural selection. — Richard Dawkins

When Euler died, he simply said I am finished and collapsed, to which someone in the audience muttered darkly" Another conjecture of Euler is proved — Paul Erdos

Unless we encounter God, speculating about God becomes nothing more than abstract conjecture and theorizing that has little impact on daily life. — N Graham Standish

Each dark conjecture came and for a moment settled like a vulture on Bond's shoulder and croaked into his ear that he had been a blind fool. — Ian Fleming

I conjecture that the origin of life and the origin of problems coincide. — Karl R. Popper

The purpose of life is to conjecture and prove. — Paul Erdos

I shall not mingle conjectures with certainties. — Isaac Newton

They who have just ideas, and express them in suitable language, would need to use no long discourse to refute the errors of empty conjecture. — Augustine Of Hippo

I think now I'm being taken a little more seriously. That's pure conjecture on my part. — Tom Wopat

Belief is at best an educated, informed conjecture about Reality. — Steve Hagen

Now entertain conjecture of a time, When creeping murmur and the pouring dark Fill the wide vessel of the universe ... Chorus Henry V — William Shakespeare

What song the Syrens sang, or what name Achilles assumed when he hid himself among women, though puzzling questions, are not beyond all conjecture. — Thomas Browne

Do not be so quick to accept as truth what is only conjecture. — Terry Brooks

A felicitous but unproved conjecture may be of much more consequence for mathematics than the proof of many a respectable theorem. — Atle Selberg

Why do you take delight in leaping to such a wild conjecture from so fragile a springboard? — Walter M. Miller Jr.

If you obey the majority of those on earth, they will lead you astray from God's way. They follow nothing but conjecture. They are only guessing. — Anonymous

Our Supreme Court is not a court of law. It is a court of conjecture and political fad. — A.E. Samaan

To die for an idea is to set a rather high price upon conjecture. — Anatole France

Rumor is a pipe Blown by surmises, jealousies, conjectures. — William Shakespeare

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

Riemann conjecture, — Gregory Benford