Conjecturers Quotes & Sayings

I like John Kerry. I think he's intellectually curious and very thoughtful. I think he's deeply committed on issues like the environment. I think he's an internationalist, which I am. — Howard Dean

Beware the ire of the calm. — Muriel Spark

LSD stands out for learning to slow down. — Santosh Kalwar

The most ignorant are the boldest conjecturers. — Lord Chesterfield

Pop is totally results-oriented and there is a very strong feedback loop. — Brian Eno

See Cook [op.cit.] for a discussion of Huygens's unusual wartime visit to Cambridge and the Royal Society. His philosophical contretemps with Isaac Newton in 1675 (referenced in Society minutes as "The Great Corpuscular Debate") would mark the last significant intellectual discourse between England and the continent prior to the chaos of the Interregnum and the Annexation . . . Some Newton biographers [Winchester (1867), &c] indicate Huygens may have used his sojourn in Cambridge to access Newton's alchemical journals and that key insights derived thusly may have been instrumental to Huygens's monumental breakthrough. However, cf. Hooft [1909] and references therein for a critique of the forensic alchemy underlying this assertion. From Freeman, Thomas S., A History of the Pre-Annexation England from Hastings to the Glorious Revolution, 3 Vols. New Amsterdam: Elsevier, 1918. — Ian Tregillis

Wherever you live is your temple, if you treat it like one. — Gautama Buddha

The best way never to fall is ever to fear. — William Jenkyn

English literature is a flying fish. — E. M. Forster