quotes about Conjecture
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OBSERVATORY, n. A place where astronomers conjecture away the guesses of their predecessors.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
In politics a capable ruler must be guided by circumstances, conjectures and conjunctions.
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The art of discovering the causes of phenomena, or true hypothesis, is like the art of decyphering, in which an ingenious conjecture greatly shortens the road.
-- Gottfried Leibniz -
We have to learn again that science without contact with experiments is an enterprise which is likely to go completely astray into imaginary conjecture.
-- Hannes AlfvenSource : Hannes Alfvén, Gustaf Arrhenius (1976). “Evolution of the Solar System”
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I shall not mingle conjectures with certainties.
-- Isaac Newton -
The entire annals of Observation probably do not elsewhere exhibit so extraordinary a verification of any theoretical conjecture adventured on by the human spirit!
-- John Pringle NicholSource : John Pringle Nichol (1848). “The planet Neptune: an exposition and history”, p.90
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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 -
My reasons are the same as for any mathematical conjecture: (1) It is a legitimate mathematical possibility, and (2) I do not know.
-- Jack Edmonds -
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“The veneration of Mary is inscribed in the very depths of the human heart”
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Source : Interview with Nick Orlando, www.broadwayworld.com. March 16, 2006.
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“You can't use your camera as a shield against human suffering.”
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“Everybody thought of me as Arnold Horshack. I resented Horshack for so many years.”
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“The most overrated tool: a pasta maker. Why make it when you can buy it? It's a lot of work!”