Conjecture Quotes
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Now entertain conjecture of a time When creeping murmur and the poring dark Fills the wide vessel of the universe.
William Shakespeare -
Ah! my dear Watson, there we come into those realms of conjecture, where the most logical mind may be at fault.
Arthur Conan Doyle
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The entire annals of Observation probably do not elsewhere exhibit so extraordinary a verification of any theoretical conjecture adventured on by the human spirit!
Urbain Le Verrier -
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 -
A felicitous but unproved conjecture may be of much more consequence for mathematics than the proof of many a respectable theorem.
Atle Selberg -
The science of medicine is founded on conjecture, and improved by murder.
Astley Cooper -
The purpose of life is to conjecture and prove.
Paul Erdos -
Scientists have no agreed theory of the origin of life - plenty of scenarios, conjectures and just-so stories, but nothing with solid experimental support.
Paul Davies