this is mathematical speculation by a bunch of…

“this is more in the category of late-night herb-inspired speculation than actual scientific prediction.”

— Jorge Cham

... such speculation is like staring into the hot white sun. you know the sun is there but you can't see a thing.

— Joyce Carol Oates

“The Orient and Islam have a kind of extrareal, phenomenologically reduced status that puts them out of reach of everyone except the Western expert.…

— Anonymous

Why precisely do we want to change land ownership? The answer seems to me to be quite clear: to inhibit land speculation, to inhibit…

— E. F. Schumacher

Speculation is an effort, probably unsuccessful, to turn a little money into a lot. Investment is an effort, which should be successful, to prevent…

— Fred Schwed Jr

To my mind, the main reason for the Depression in the United States as a whole, is the bondage of debt and the spirit…

— Heber J. Grant

They have seized upon the government by bribery and corruption. They have made speculation and public robbery a science. They have loaded the nation,…

— Denis Kearney

The biggest journalistic game-changer of our time has been the rise of social media and the overgrowth of faux news sources - league- and…

— Robert Lipsyte

Currency speculation-over a trillion dollars a day-is a tax-free activity. The notion of a tax on "day trades" or other speculative swaps was revived…

— Eric Kierans

The fear of speculation, the ostensible rush from the theoretical to the practical, brings about the same shallowness in action that it does in…

— Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling

I am quite conscious that my speculations run beyond the bounds of true science…It is a mere rag of an hypothesis with as many…

— Charles Darwin

I think that only daring speculation can lead us further and not accumulation of facts.

— Albert Einstein

In his anti-Darwinian book... (and eponymously named The Neck of the Giraffe ), Francis Hitching tells the story... "The need to survive by reaching…

— Stephen Jay Gould

Where is the subject that does not branch out into infinity? For every grain of sand is a mystery; so is every daisy in…

— William Mountford

All the questions, all the speculation, No. 2 driver and so on, it doesn't get to me. It doesn't matter.

— Valtteri Bottas