In exploring new and doubtful tracts of speculation, the mind strikes out true and original views; as a drop of water hesitates… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
There is nothing new in Wall Street. There can't be because speculation is as old as the hills. Whatever happens in the… — Jesse Lauriston Livermore Copy Share Image
“For those who relish speculation regarding the future, the tale of supernatural horror provides an interesting field.” — H.P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
“I don’t like speculation,” said Matthias. “Of course you don’t. You like things you can see. Like piles of snow and benevolent… — Leigh Bardugo Copy Share Image
I think there's a lot of crazy stuff on the Internet. You read stuff that is wild speculation, and there's an element… — Neill Blomkamp Copy Share Image
I don't think that governments should permit speculation in raw materials, because they're what the economy basically needs. — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
“speculation in history is never rock-solid, it is reasonable to think that had the Titanic been launched on schedule, she may not… — Henry Freeman Copy Share Image
Liverpool has always had speculation about managers, players, players coming, players going and it's the same as managers. That's part of being… — Jamie Carragher Copy Share Image
A handy short definition of almost all science fiction might read: realistic speculation about possible future events, based solidly on adequate knowledge… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Three explanations dominate speculation about what Obama is up to. The first is that he's trying to lay the groundwork for his… — Jonah Goldberg Copy Share Image
Results rarely specify their causes unambiguously. If we have no direct evidence of fossils or human chronicles, if we are forced to… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Aristotle especially, both by speculation and observation... reached something like the modern idea of a succession of higher organizations from lower, and… — Andrew Dickson White Copy Share Image
So long as men die, life will reassert its tragic interest from time to time with fresh energy, and to this interest… — Henry Parry Liddon Copy Share Image
There is a broad distinction between religion and theology. The one is a natural, human experience common to all well-organized minds. The… — Lucretia Mott Copy Share Image
“If the people of this religion are asked about the proof for the soundness of their religion, they flare up, get angry… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Mathematics is ordinarily considered as producing precise and dependable results; but in the stock market the more elaborate and abstruse the mathematics… — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
“Here we begin frank speculation. And since we are speculating, we'll use those powerful pseudo-laws, the Principles of Mediocrity and Minimal Assumption.” — Vernor Vinge Copy Share Image
Consciously paying more for a stock than its calculated value - in the hope that it can soon be sold for a… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
The strongest arguments prove nothing so long as the conclusions are not verified by experience. Experimental science is the queen of sciences… — Roger Bacon Copy Share Image
Speculation is an effort, probably unsuccessful, to turn a little money into a lot. Investment is an effort, which should be successful,… — Fred Schwed Jr Copy Share Image
Instead of indulging in mere speculation, devote yourself here and now to the search for the Truth that is ever within you. — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
You're trying too hard to find a correlation here. You don't know these people, you don't know what they intended. You try… — Marc Racicot Copy Share Image
Dept. of Speculation is gorgeous, funny, a profound and profoundly moving work of art. Jenny Offill is a master of form and… — Sam Lipsyte Copy Share Image
Not too many people in cocktail parties are aware of Bioprinting and growing organs, or the coming technological singularity; I've seen very… — Jason Silva Copy Share Image
From the moment a New Yorker is confronted with almost any large city of Europe, it is impossible for him to pretend… — Edmund Wilson Copy Share Image
His subject is the "Origin of Species," & not the origin of Organization; & it seems a needless mischief to have opened… — Harriet Martineau Copy Share Image
People have contemplated the origin and evolution of the universe since before the time of Aristotle. Very recently, the era of speculation… — George Smoot Copy Share Image
To model our political system upon speculations of lasting tranquility, is to calculate on the weaker springs of the human character. — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Despite recent speculation in the media, and after difficult but sincere consideration, I have decided not to direct 'Catching Fire.' As a… — Gary Ross Copy Share Image
Technically and logically speaking, actual Victorian science fiction writers cannot be dubbed 'steampunks.' Although they utilized many of the same tropes and… — Paul Di Filippo Copy Share Image
If you're constantly being reminded of the ways in which your history and your narrative as a people were rooted in loss… — Kerry James Marshall Copy Share Image
There is a philosophy that says that if something is unobservable -- unobservable in principle -- it is not part of science.… — Leonard Susskind Copy Share Image
In the abstract, it might be tempting to imagine that irreducible complexity simply requires multiple simultaneous mutations - that evolution might be… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Where is the subject that does not branch out into infinity? For every grain of sand is a mystery; so is every… — William Mountford Copy Share Image
I don't expect that the scientific community now embraces and kisses me 'Oh wonderful, great you did!' we have to live with… — Erich von Däniken Copy Share Image
Golf is more exacting than racing, cards, speculation, or matrimony. In almost all other games you pit yourself against a mortal foe;… — Arnold Haultain Copy Share Image
A disordered currency is one of the greatest political evils. It undermines the virtues necessary for the support of the social system,… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
Mingled vanity and pride appear in this, that when miserable men do seek after God, instead of ascending higher than themselves as… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
A dozen more questions occurred to me. Not to mention twenty-two possible solutions to each one, sixteen resulting hypotheses and counter-theorems, eight… — Jonathan Stroud Copy Share Image
Many able Gardeners and Husbandmen are yet Ignorant of the Reason of their Calling; as most Artificers are of the Reason of… — William Penn Copy Share Image
