Conjecture Quotations

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.

And I think that at a certain point, after all the time and all the conjecture and everything that had kind of gone on surrounding this show, I think that Mitch just felt like it was time to let it go. It was best for the show.

The Temple of Diana is in the vicinity of the fountain, which has given rise to the conjecture that it originally constituted a portion of the ancient baths.

One of my conjectures was solved in six months, a second in five years, a third in 10. But the basic conjecture remains-the Mandelbrot Set.

I can't make any comment. It's all conjecture at the moment.

I don't think it's made a massive difference, I think there's been a lot of conjecture about this new rule (faster kick-ins) and what a massive difference it's going to make ... but I think it's a little bit of jumping at shadows.

But that's purely conjecture at this point à a working hypothesis. Everything is on the table until we've gotten more data down.

It is impossible for me to conjecture why it ended up where it did.

I think there is still a bit of conjecture about what we want to do,

Our response is until he is cleared medically, any type of conjecture is premature.

It is all just conjecture at the moment. I think at the end of the day, Dubai will get it.

It is premature to offer any conjecture on how this would affect us.

I understand and appreciate your concerns but you have to understand, at this point we've got nothing to react to, ... We haven't even heard from Brim since the last meeting. It's pure conjecture to discuss this at this time.

two entirely separate matters. One is an inquiry into the how of things, the other is conjecture as to the why.

Proposition 77 is a political power play. It doesn't surprise me that partisan groups behind it would conjecture to support it.

People shouldn't conjecture when they don't know what it is, ... Jeff Bower has done a tremendous job over the years disciplining his student-athletes. I've got tremendous confidence in his ability.

Your statement that Mr. Brown reached all the same historical conjecture you did is fairly misleading. You are being unfair and inaccurate.

I had something that may be just a wild conjecture only, but ...

In the first day of the Soviet Army's arrival, I and the other comrades were isolated and then found ourselves here, not knowing anything... I can only conjecture what could have happened.

It's a matter of conjecture as to whether the Justice Department's investigation is affecting these sales. I would tend to think the supply is thin, and that the investigation really doesn't affect people.

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

You can't know what the future holds, though you might conjecture on it, and if you're psychic, you might venture a guess.

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.

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

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

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.

All the media coverage, all the conjecture of how she would do or wouldn't do, it seemed like a convergence of a lot of issues in terms of what this could mean for the LPGA and women's golf. It was irrelevant she missed the cut. It was irrelevant she shot 71-74. It was how she represented the LPGA.

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

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

To die for an idea is to set a rather high price upon conjecture.

I shall not mingle conjectures with certainties.

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.

Conjecture as to things useful, is good; but conjecture as to what it would be useless to know, is very idle.