Guesses Quotes

There are no secrets better kept than the secrets everybody guesses.

We have no reliable inside intelligence on thinking inside the Kremlin …. Our estimates of Soviet long range plans and intentions are speculations drawn from inadequate evidence.

Mathematics does not grow through a monotonous increase of the number of indubitably established theorems but through the incessant improvement of guesses by speculation and criticism, by the logic of proofs and refutations.

At a time when politics has become an almost minute-by-minute spectacle, political thinkers who try to discern a sweeping interpretive pattern in current events or to predict where those events may be heading are likely to find their work evaluated in terms dismayingly like those applied to candidates and strategists. One wrong guess, or an abrupt change in the political weather, can make even an illuminating political book seem as irrelevant as a bungled campaign.

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

When we routinely fail to produce the new knowledge policy makers desperately need, they lose confidence in us. Who can blame them? Smart guesses aren’t worth spit.

The Gods did not reveal, from the beginning, all things to us, but in the course of time through seeking we may learn & know things better. But as for certain truth no man knows it, nor shall he know it, neither of the Gods nor yet of all things that I speak. For even if by chance he were to utter The Final Truth, he would himself not know it: for all is but a woven web of guesses.

An artist observes, selects, guesses, and synthesizes.

Projections are just bullshit. They're just guesses.

Evolution is not truth; it is merely a hypothesis-it is millions of guesses strung together.

Reality, in fact, is usually something you could not have guessed. That is one of the reasons I believe Christianity. It is a religion that you could not have guessed. If it offered us just the kind of universe we had always expected, I should feel we were making it up. But, in fact, it is not the sort of thing anyone would have made up. It has just that queer twist about it that real things have. So let us leave behind all thee boys’ philosophies – – these over simple answers. The problem is not simple and the answer is not going to be simple either.

On Day One, a start-up is a faith-based initiative built on guesses.

That's what law is: educated guesses at right and wrong.