Conjecture Quotes
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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
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
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
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