Conjecture Quotes

In politics a capable ruler must be guided by circumstances, conjectures and conjunctions.

We have to learn again that science without contact with experiments is an enterprise which is likely to go completely astray into imaginary conjecture.

I shall not mingle conjectures with certainties.

Rumor is a pipe Blown by surmises, jealousies, conjectures.

I think everybody handles things very differently and you can conjecture, but until you're put in that situation, you really don't know.

Other people do not see you at all, but guess at you by uncertain conjectures.

OBSERVATORY, n. A place where astronomers conjecture away the guesses of their predecessors.

No one but yourself knows whether you are cowardly and cruel, or loyal and devout; others do not see you; they surmise you by uncertain conjectures; they perceive not so much your nature as your art.

My reasons are the same as for any mathematical conjecture: (1) It is a legitimate mathematical possibility, and (2) I do not know.

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.

It is putting a very high price on one's conjectures to have someone roasted alive on their account.