Quotes About Conjecture

Eso de estar siempre conjeturando cómo será el futuro es una deficiencia humana, y de esa deficiencia surgió el cine.

Les lois des relations humaines nous sont encore inconnues. La sociologie et l'économie politique ne sont que des sciences conjecturales, des pseudo-sciences.

From a drop of water a logician could infer the possibility of an Atlantic or a Niagara without having seen or heard of one or the other.

I say I write extrapolations. I look at data points and ask what the world could look like.

One way to salvage the Becker conjecture is to argue that CEOs, coaches, and other managers who are hired because they have a broad range of skills, which may not include analytical reasoning, could simply hire geeks who would deserve to be members of Becker's 10% to crunch the numbers for them. But my hunch is that as the importance of a decision grows, the tendency to rely on quantitative analyses done by others tends to shrink.

Fiction isn't what 'was'. It's 'what if'?

La teoria redime i fenomeni; è una congettura fortunata.

WAGs... That's a technical term we engineers use. It means 'Wild-Assed Guess'.

I am neither a sociologist nor a politician. All I can do is imagine for myself what the future will be like.

A statement that mathematicians believe but cannot as yet prove is called a "conjecture".

Truly it is said, that knowledge is chief of all things, my son. It allows us to see clearly what we may achieve. Conjecture is no substitute for fact.

A belief is an uneducated guess.

A theory is the academic equivalent of a guess. - Gordon

A theory is the academic equivalent of a guess.

Everybody liked better to conjecture how the thing was, than simply to know it; for conjecture soon became more confident than knowledge, and had a more liberal allowance for the incompatible.

Our Supreme Court is not a court of law. It is a court of conjecture and political fad.

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

The worst-tempered bit of a sickly slip that ever struggled into his teens. Happily, as Mr. Meathcliff conjectured, he'll not win twenty. I doubt whether he'll see spring, indeed. And small loss to his family whenever he drops off.

Riemann Hypothesis

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 it is made clear which are proved facts and which are conjectures, no harm can result.

And in this, Sir, I am of so nice and singular a humour, that if I thought you was able to form the least judgment or probable conjecture to yourself, of what was to come in the next page, - I would tear it out of my book.

The entire annals of Observation probably do not elsewhere exhibit so extraordinary a verification of any theoretical conjecture adventured on by the human spirit!

I never guess. It is a shocking habit destructive to the logical faculty.

Intolerance and superstition has always been the domain of the more stupid amongst the common folk and, I conjecture, will never be uprooted, for they are as eternal as stupidity itself.