Quotes About Conjecture

Nothing favourable comes from speculation.

If we find life out there, and it's not us, we will deem it not intelligent. But what may be equally as likely is that we find life that's vastly more intelligent than we are. If that's the case, we are putty in their hands.

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

Can one come 2 conclusions, Before the question is conceived?

if reason and poesy persist in wrangling with the tools, the brushes, we shall be brought to doubt, like Frenhofer, who is as much excited in brain as he is exalted in art. A sublime painter, indeed; but he had the misfortune to be born rich, and that enables him to stray into theory and conjecture. Do not imitate him. Work! work! painters should theorize with their brushes in their hands.

If, if, if. If a frog had wings, he wouldn't bump his ass every time he jumped.

People are going to assume whatever they want to assume.

EXTRAPOLATE is principally defined as: "to project, extend, or expand known data or experience into an area not known or experienced so as to arrive at a usually conjectural knowledge of the unknown area by inferences based on an assumed continuity, correspondence, or other parallelism between it and what is known." Whee! Did you get

To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age. Tis much better to do a little with certainty & leave the rest for others that come after than to explain all things by conjecture without making sure of any thing.

Tis much better to do a little with certainty & leave the rest for others that come after than to explain all things by conjecture without making sure of any thing.

do you think MM stands for?" I asked. "March Madness?" replied Michael, who never ties his shoes. "Marilyn Monroe?" said Ryan, who will eat anything, even stuff that isn't food. "Mickey Mouse?" said Neil, who we call the nude kid even though he wears clothes. "My Mom?" said Alexia, this girl who rides a skateboard all the time. Everybody was buzzing, which was weird because we're not bees.

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Obscuring the drama of Emily Dickinson's legacy have been the dustheaps of slander and sentimental conjecture that fortified the battlers in the war between the houses.

Or if they list to try Conjecture, he his fabric of the Heavens Hath left to their disputes, perhaps to move His laughter at their quaint opinions wide. John Milton, Paradise Lost viii 75-78

The significance of this special case is obvious and needs no explanation. It is natural to conjecture that once we have a sound theory for this case, the remaining problems of justice will prove more tractable in the light of it.

Los quizás podían retorcer cosas que en realidad nunca existieron

Imagination has rules, but we can only guess what they are.

In 1969, en route for a summer holiday in the Cévennes, I made the casual purchase of a paperback. Le Trésor Maudit by Gérard de Sède was a mystery story—a lightweight, entertaining blend of historical fact, genuine mystery, and conjecture.

Goldbach's hypothesis

The stories could be true, or they could be conjecture; people stuck stories to her like wet plaster. Into what position would they set?

These ancient ambiguities would be a field for learned conjecture merely, were it not for the bitter rivalries that haunted them in later times and haunt them still.

We were none of us particularly drunk. But then again, none of us were particularly sober, either. Our exact positioning between those two points is a matter of pointless conjecture, and I will waste no time on it.

You have never seen her, never heard her voice. You cannot know.

Conjecture piled on speculation and topped by guesswork." "That's called lawyering, Vic. Which, I might remind you, requires an open mind. Creative thinking. Fresh ideas. Not being rigid.