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Conjecture Quotes

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

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

Catherine the Great
Conjunctions, Conjecture, Circumstances
"One Thousand Sayings of History Presented as Pictures in Prose". Book by Walter Fogg, 1971.

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 Alfven
Conjecture, Enterprise, Contact
Hannes Alfvén, Gustaf Arrhenius (1976). “Evolution of the Solar System”

I shall not mingle conjectures with certainties.

Isaac Newton
Conjecture, Certainty
Sir Isaac Newton (2016). “New Theory about Light and Colour”, p.10, Library of Alexandria

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

William Shakespeare
Rumor, Conjecture, Pipe
'Henry IV, Part 2' (1597) induction, l. 15

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
Thinking, Conjecture, Situation
"Laura Linney Interview THE BIG C". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. August 16, 2010.

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

Michel de Montaigne
People, Conjecture, Uncertain

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.

Michel de Montaigne
Art, Loyal, Conjecture

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

Ambrose Bierce
Science, Astronomers, Conjecture
Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.151, 谷月社

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
Reason, Possibility, Conjecture

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

Michel de Montaigne
Alive, Conjecture, Accounts

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.

George Eliot
Allowance, Conjecture, Knows
George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch”, p.785, Booklassic

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