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Quotes About Conjecture

One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture
~ Jordan Ellenberg
This happy conjecture affirmed that there is only one subject, that this indivisible subject is every being in the universe and that these beings are the organs and masks of the divinity.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
The greatest problem for mathematicians now is probably the Riemann Hypothesis.
~ Andrew Wiles
Not as a demonstrated natural law, but as a working hypothesis.
~ Henry Norris Russell
Imagination has rules, but we can only guess what they are.
~ Mason Cooley
Similarly, if you're trying to prove something mathematically, it's possible that no proof exists.
~ Simon Singh
What song the Syrens sang, or what name Achilles assumed when he hid himself among women, though puzzling questions, are not beyond all conjecture.
~ Sir Thomas Browne
What song the Sirens sang, or what name Achilles assumed when he hid himself among women, though puzzling questions, are not beyond all conjecture.
~ Sir Thomas Browne
purposely ignored by him. [16] Tu Mu's conjecture seems to be based
~ Sun Tzu
To assume is to presume.
~ Jude Morgan
I conjecture, that human intuition is organized around casual, not statistical, relations.
~ Judea Pearl
We can suspect that there is no universe in the organic, unifying sense, that this ambitious term has. If there is a universe, its aim is not conjectured yet; we have not yet conjectured the words, the definitions, the etymologies, the synonyms, from the secret dictionary of God.
~ borges jorge luis iii
Swag?" "Scientific wild ass guess.
~ Michael Connelly
There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact. —MARK TWAIN
~ Michael Crichton
I will not discuss future hypothetical situations.
~ Ehud Barak
These are all just informed guesses.
~ Bill Bryson
We should not test and build on theories that are just conjecture—especially when it comes to hypothesizing about underrepresented groups while knowing very little about their stories and lived experiences.
~ Brene Brown
Belief is at best an educated, informed conjecture about Reality.
~ Steve Hagen
Other people do not see you at all, but guess at you by uncertain conjectures.
~ Michel de Montaigne
It is putting a very high price on one's conjectures to have someone roasted alive on their account.
~ Michel de Montaigne
Do not be so quick to accept as truth what is only conjecture.
~ Terry Brooks
The question of the acceptance of theories should, I propose, be demoted to the status of a minor problem. For science may be regarded as a growing system of problems, rather than as a system of beliefs. And for a system of problems, the tentative acceptance of a theory or a conjecture means hardly more than that it is considered worthy of further criticism.
~ Karl R. Popper
I conjecture that the origin of life and the origin of problems coincide.
~ Karl R. Popper
All my stupid little thoughts beget stupid little thoughts, rampantly speculating every possible outcome of every possible situation until they're all done to death and none of them could ever be true.
~ Bryan Lee O'Malley