guessing, n.All

Guessing is at the root of all discovery. No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess.

Guessing is the most valuable coin of the thinker at work (the fertile hypothesis, the courageous leap to a tentative conclusion), but in most schools, to guess is heavily penalized and is associated somehow with laziness.

Guessing is able to make a man clever, if, regardless of time period, he gets it right.

Guessing is often conflated with prophesy. We claim we have vision when we have guessed correctly.