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Tag Name "Guesswork" (15)

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The Moon and Mars were the two most likely candidates for life in the solar system what exists beyond our solar system is mere guesswork.
Walter Lang
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The ultimate judgment of a work of art, whether it be a masterpiece or a lesser event, must be solely in terms of its artistic success and not on Freudian guesswork.
Edward Albee
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A mathematician's work is mostly a tangle of guesswork, analogy, wishful thinking and frustration, and proof, far from being the core of discovery, is more often than not a way of making sure that our minds are not playing tricks.
Gian-Carlo Rota
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A love story - your own, or anyone else's - is interior, hidden. It can never be accurately reported, only imagined. It is all dreams and invention. It's guesswork.
Joan Wickersham
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Fiction is not a dream. Nor is it guesswork. It is imagining based on facts, and the facts must be accurate or the work of imagining will not stand up.
Margaret Culkin Banning
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Computers are like bikinis. They save people a lot of guesswork.
Sam Ewing
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We are here and it is now. The way I see it is, after that, everything tends towards guesswork.
Terry Pratchett
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My great-grandfather Melvin had been a carpenter - so was my father - and they taught me the value of tools: saws, hammers, chisels, files and rulers. It all dealt with conciseness and precision. It eliminated guesswork. One has to know his tools, so he doesn't work against himself.
Yusef Komunyakaa
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It helps, if you've directed, to be able to write a script that is director-friendly. You're really telling them [directors], This is how it works on this show. It takes some of the guesswork out of it.
Amy Sherman-Palladino
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The computer saves man a lot of guesswork, but so does the bikini.
Evan Esar
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... those who are absolutely certain that the rise in temperatures is due solely to carbon dioxide have no scientific justification. It's pure guesswork.
Henrik Svensmark
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Mathematicians use intuition, conjecture and guesswork all the time except when they are in the classroom.
Joseph Warren
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If you're an economist and you're asked to predict what something is going to be like 50 years from now? It's going to be guesswork.
Richard Harris
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But is all this true? said Brutha. Didactylos shrugged. Could be. Could be. We are here and it is now. The way I see it is, after that, everything tends towards guesswork. You mean you don't KNOW it's true? said Brutha. I THINK it might be, said Didactylos. I could be wrong. Not being certain is what being a philosopher is all abou
Terry Pratchett
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The brain has a good error rate. But, the point is, you can function with that error rate. Animals do a lot of guesswork.
Usama Fayyad