Guesswork Quotes

“Mathematics is not a deductive science - that's a cliche. When you try to prove a theorem, you don't just list the hypotheses, and then start to reason. What you do is trial and error, experimentation, guesswork.”
― Paul R. Halmos, I Want to be a Mathematician: An Automathography

“Every man should have aunts. They illustrate the triumph of guess work over logic.”
― Agatha Christie

“In other words, start with what you know, and use a little guesswork, or common sense, or whatever you want to call it, to figure out what you don't know.”
― John Holt, Learning All the Time

“We don't usually see this happening but, like detectives arriving on the scene after a crime, we can piece together what must have happened from the evidence that remains.”
― Richard Dawkins, The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution

“Speculation cannot replace education.”
― Wayne Gerard Trotman

“Choices which are made based upon guesswork or assumptions are likely to cause inconvenience or unexpected outcomes at some stage.”
― Steven Redhead, Life Is A Circus

“Assumptions are simply guesswork in Sunday clothes.”
― Steven Redhead, Life Is A Cocktail

“Evidence-based discipleship helps us to avoid the pitfalls of guesswork and intuition and to instead make informed decisions based on what we know works.”
― Justin Ho Guo Shun, The Art and Science of Discipleship: Evidence-Based Strategies to Empowering Leaders for Sustainable Ministry