Conjectural Quotes

#1. We must regard all laws or theories as hypothetical or conjectural; that is, as guesses.

Karl R. Popper

#2. Quantum mechanics provides us with an approximate, plausible, conjectural explanation of what actually is, or was, or may be taking place inside a cyclotron during a dark night in February.

Edward Abbey

#3. I am a vague, conjectural personality, more made up of opinions and academic prepossessions than of human traits and red corpuscles.

Doris Kearns Goodwin

#4. I eyed the sheriff. "So I better be breathing when He finds me." "Who the hell are you talking about?" the sheriff blurted.
I chuckled.
The postman sneered at the sheriff. "She means the Demon King. The Devil. This is a phone from Hell - the real one.

H.D. Smith

#5. Nothing so weakens a government as inflation.

John Kenneth Galbraith

#6. Yeah, cause that would be a smart choice. So, I should just forget about the whole lying to me thing when you pronounce you will never do it again?"
"Yes."
"You'd have a better chance getting a donkey to shit gold.

Elizabeth J. Kolodziej

#7. We're not church planters. We are community planters and, as we work in our communities, we join local churches.

Shane Claiborne

#8. What manner of people they were only books and other people could tell ... and the tale was a long and gory one dating from the dim, conjectural dawn of history. But being human they were as apt to change as mother nature to remain constant.

Robert Edison Fulton Jr.

#9. The world has arisen in some way or another. How it originated is the great question, and Darwin's theory, like all other attempts, to explain the origin of life, is thus far merely conjectural. I believe he has not even made the best conjecture possible in the present state of our knowledge.

Louis Agassiz

#10. Sometimes we desire absolute nonsense because in our stupidity we see in this nonsense the easiest way of attaining some conjectural good.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

#11. People always say to me, 'You have such a clearly defined sense of style,' and when I hear it, I get crazed, because what I hear - and I know they mean it as a compliment - is that I have such a narrow vision that I can't get out of it.

Stanley Donen

#12. Our final experience, like our first, is conjectural. We move between two darkness's.

E. M. Forster