Quotes About Conjectural

I saw the Aleph, from all points, I saw the earth in the Aleph , I saw my face and my viscera, I saw your face, and I felt dizzy and cried, because my eyes had seen that secret and conjectural object, whose name they usurp to men , but which no man has looked at: the inconceivable universe.

I am a vague, conjectural personality, more made up of opinions and academic prepossessions than of human traits and red corpuscles.

The world has arisen in some way or another. How it originated is the great question, and Darwin's theory, like all other attempts to explain the origin of life, is thus far merely conjectural. I believe he has not even made the best conjecture possible in the present state of our knowledge.

Quantum mechanics provides us with an approximate, plausible, conjectural explanation of what actually is, or was, or may be taking place inside a cyclotron during a dark night in February.

All knowledge is conjectural and ... science progresses through new theories coming to replace older ones when it becomes clear that a new theory is able to make sense of a greater circle of phenomena than are comprehended and explained by the older one and is able to predict new phenomena more accurately.

I don't answer deeply hypothetical questions.

The present, due to its staggering complexities, is almost as conjectural as the past." —George Jackson "Dawn also has its terrors." —Victor Hugo "America is our country, more than it is the whites' ... we have enriched it with our blood and tears." —David Walker "My love to all who love their neighbors." —John Brown

We must regard all laws or theories as hypothetical or conjectural; that is, as guesses.

The essence of policy is its contingency; its success depends on the correctness of an estimate which is in part conjectural. The essence of bureaucracy is its quest for safety; its success is calculability . . . The attempt to conduct policy bureaucratically leads to a quest for calculability which tends to become a prisoner of events.

Sometimes we desire absolute nonsense because in our stupidity we see in this nonsense the easiest way of attaining some conjectural good.