Conjecture Quotes

“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.”

“Every conjecture we can form with regard to the works of God has as little probability as the conjectures of a child with regard to the works of a man.”

“Fundamental values (such as equality and human rights) should not be held hostage to some factual conjecture about blank slates that might be refuted tomorrow.”

“I believe in this being, not because I have any proper or direct knowledge of His existence, but I am at a loss to account for the existence and arrangement of the visible universe, and, being left in the wide sea of conjecture without a clue from analogy or experience, I find the conjecture of a God easy, obvious, and irresistible.”

“The rules of scientific investigation always require us, when we enter the domains of conjecture, to adopt that hypothesis by which the greatest number of known facts and phenomena may be reconciled.”

“You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.”

“Belief is at best an educated, informed conjecture about Reality.”

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

“Our Supreme Court is not a court of law. It is a court of conjecture and political fad.”

“But of course these conjectures as to why God does what He does are probably of no more value than my dog's ideas of what I am up to when I sit and read.”