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First you guess. Don't laugh, this is the most important step. Then you compute the consequences. Compare the consequences to experience. If it disagrees with experience, the guess is wrong. In that simple statement is the key to science. It doesn't matter how beautiful your guess is or how smart you are or what your name is. If it disagrees with experience, it's wrong. That's all there is to it.
Richard P. FeynmanThe comics that are just conversing with you up there and drawing on their own life, yeah, I guess so. I guess some do political humor, some do topical humor, but the ones that I like, the ones that are appealing to me, were guys who were just talking to you about their life.
Ray RomanoIt's my guess that something like 5% of GDP goes to money management and itsattendant friction. I define it broadly - annuities, incentive pay, all trading, etc. Nobody else has used figures that high, but that's my guess. Worst of all, the people doing this are among the best and the brightest. Hundreds and thousands of engineers, etc. are going into hedge funds and investment banking. That is not an intelligent allocation of the brainpower of the civilization.
Charlie MungerThat's why I'm such a big sports fan, with sports you can never guess what's gonna happen. Most movies you get halfway through and you can kind of guess the ending.
Michael DouglasI don't think you can ever make enough to be set for life. Well, I guess there are limits. In the billions, I guess.
Dustin DiamondIf I were required to guess off-hand, and without collusion with higher minds, what is the bottom cause of the amazing material and intellectual advancement of the last fifty years, I should guess that it was the modern-born and previously non-existent disposition on the part of men to believe that a new idea can have value.
Mark TwainThe World Club Challenge clash with St George was a brutal battle. It was one of the hardest games I've ever played in. I guess it would be good to have more matches of such intensity but, trust me, our bodies would struggle if we were subjected to this every week. There is a limit to how much players can take.
Sam TomkinsI guess I tend to see divine appointments everywhere. I am always on the alert for opportunities. So I prefer to err on the side of witnessing too often than not enough.
Mark DeverI guess I was a mom so late in life, my daughter was the greatest thing since sliced bread.
Candice BergenI enjoy acting when you really hit it right. And I guess I've always had too much fantasy to be only a housewife.
Marilyn MonroeWhy donโt we break up? I guess I stay with her because she stays with me. And thatโs not an easy thing to do.
John GreenAnyway, lots of warrior tribes think that when they die, they go to a heavenly land somewhere," said the toad. "You know, where they can drink and fight and feast forever? So maybe this is theirs." "But this is a real place!" "So? That's what they believe. Besides, they're only small. Maybe the universe is a bit crowded and they have to put heavens anywhere there's room? I'm a toad, so you'll appreciate that I'm having to guess a lot here.
Terry PratchettStella: And when he comes back I cry on his lap like a baby.. [she smiles to herself] Blanche: I guess that is what is meant by being in love.
Tennessee WilliamsIt probably all started with The Beatles, and then I guess it goes out from there. Springsteen... Fleetwood Mac... I mean, that's all so inherent in us that when we're making records now, we take a lot from the artists who are around us.
Jack AntonoffI was like the class clown in school so I guess I would say I did like the attention. In church I did a lot of plays, my mother made me play characters, do a lot of drama and acting, trying to become someone else. So it helped me create who I am, to create Snoop Dogg.
Snoop DoggI guess I'm the perfect young lead actress. I'm not Chloe Sevigny - I'm not really a character actress. Some actors have "character" faces.
Berenice BejoI studied voice when I was at school, and I was in the chamber choir, and I studied music theory as well, so I guess a lot of it came from being taught at school.
Lily AllenI guess I was a conspiracy theorist when I said "no weapons in Iraq." Now they call that history.
Aaron McGruderIt had always made sense to me to build a business based on what people really wanted, rather than guess what we thought they might want.
Michael DellThere's still people that do it poorly... and people that do it very, very well. I think there's still an incredible spectrum. I guess there's something that's appealing in it, in that everyone on some level is a DJ. But people still go to clubs, and there's still... it is interesting - with everyone having an iPod now - when music is so personalised and things like Pandora and making your own playlists, there's something really powerful about a room full of people all dancing to the same song.
Chris BaioAt a banquet Caligula was suddenly seized with a fit of helpless laughter. The consuls reclining next to him asked if they might share in the imperial merriment. Caligula, wiping the tears from his eyes, managed to gasp, "You'll never guess! It suddenly occurred to me that I had only to give a single nod, and both your throats would be cut on the spot."
SuetoniusSo Fox News is the voice of America and Obama is Stalin? Oh my God! I guess that makes me Yakov Smirnoff.
Jon StewartIt's always nice to know people are watching and having their own ideas about things and it's nice when your audience starts trying to guess what's going to happen, it means they're really interested.
Vincent KartheiserPeople have always liked to be frightened. People love to feel that jolt of adrenaline. People love roller coasters. People love skydiving. These things that really get your heart pumping, and horror films are sort of a safe way to get that rush I guess.
Aaron StanfordIf I had to guess and put a name on it, I'd say that at some point, the drug war was as much a function of class and social control as it was of racism.
David SimonThe zeitgeist is ever-changing. If you try second guess what people want, you'll miss it.
Nick FrostThere is more going on beneath the surface than we think, and more going on in little, finite moments of time than we would guess.
Malcolm GladwellDon't second guess the mistakes you've made, others will do that for you. Make things as simple as possible, but not simpler.
Albert EinsteinI did live over in the U.K. for a while, so I guess I'm just naturally a Brit at heart.
Kelly RowlandI guess I really haven't thought much about winning an Oscar, but if I had the opportunity, I'm sure I would like it.
Ashton KutcherMy guess [is] . . . that the great majority of Americans are saying they favor gun control when they really mean gun banishment. . . . I think the country has long been ready to restrict the use of guns, except for hunting rifles and shotguns, and now I think we're prepared to get rid of the damned things entirely - the handguns, the semis and the automatics.
Roger RosenblattI'm not an expert in typefaces that serve scientific writing, but I'd guess that's another dozen or two.
Michael BierutI'm a millionaire, I guess, but I'm just a normal person and I like everybody, taxi drivers, whoever you are, to call me by my first name and talk to me on a man-to-man basis. I think the garbage collector is as important as the goddamned president.
Ted TurnerI guess by now I should know enough about loss to realize that you never really stop missing someone-you just learn to live around the huge gaping hole of their absence.
Alyson NoelBy reading the characteristic features of any man's castles in the air you can make a shrewd guess as to his underlying desires which are frustrated.
John DeweyI guess after college, I just got really into food. I also think going on the road doing stand-up makes you more into food. Because when you travel like that, one of the things to do is find really good places to eat.
Aziz AnsariWho are you talking to?โ โ Morty โStill in the kitchen, arenโt I? Guess I need to keep walking. Oh, look! Yonder is the door, which Iโm going to make use of right now.โ โ Nick
Sherrilyn KenyonI guess part of the hit-man appeal is the solitude. Everybody is lured to the idea of the solitary life.
Bill NighyWhat about when theyโre hibernating? (Leta) The coyotes get them. (Aiden) Well, then, I guess you need to go ahead and shoot me and get it over with. The coyotes are probably starving in this weather. (Leta)
Sherrilyn KenyonI guess I was always envious of people who got to move to New York for college because they got to see the city that I, perhaps, was pretty jaded by with new eyes and discover for themselves that Andy Warhol was dead.
Lola Kirke