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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
For a long time it has been known that the first systems of representations with which men have pictured to themselves the… — Emile Durkheim Copy Share Image
We believe this approach (progress sharing) is a rational approach because you cooperate in creating the abundance that makes the progress possible,… — Walter Reuther Copy Share Image
Each time I caught sight of geese swooping in formation across the sky, I wondered how our life below might look from… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
Books lie, he said. God dont lie. No, said the judge. He does not. And these are his words. He held up… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
"In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth..." Whatever our speculations may be in regard to a "beginning," and when… — Elisha Gray Copy Share Image
I am myself an empiric in natural philosophy, suffering my faith to go no further than my facts. I am pleased, however,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Suicidal thinking, if serious, can be a kind of death scare, comparable to suffering a heart attack or undergoing a cancer operation.… — Edward Hoagland Copy Share Image
Any photograph has multiple meanings: indeed, to see something in the form of a photograph is to encounter a potential object of… — Susan Sontag 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
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
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
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
But if it was always a point of speculation, where one person insisted it was a certain way and another denied it,… — Kiera Cass Copy Share Image
Mathematics does not grow through a monotonous increase of the number of indubitably established theorems but through the incessant improvement of guesses… — Imre Lakatos Copy Share Image
I could speculate, but it would be just speculation and the kind of thing that you would get in with a science… — Gene Wolfe Copy Share Image
A reporter started off: "I know a lot of this is kind of speculation." Popovich interupting: "You're going to ask me anyway."… — Gregg Popovich Copy Share Image
Speculation is perfectly all right, but if you stay there you've only founded a superstition. If you test it, you've started a… — Hal Clement 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
“For those who relish speculation regarding the future, the tale of supernatural horror provides an interesting field.” — H.P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
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
The papers feed the public interest but then the public interest demands more in the press and speculation can look like fact. — Chris Chibnall 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
Science fiction writers aren't in the prediction business; they're in the speculation business, using 'hasn't happened' or 'hasn't happened yet' to create… — James Gunn Copy Share Image
People who invest make money for themselves; people who speculate make money for their brokers. And that, in turn, is why Wall… — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
We are perpetually moralists, but we are geometricians only by chance. Our intercourse with intellectual nature is necessary; our speculations upon matter… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Too many composers become involved in intellectual speculation which seems to matter more to them than the sound that comes out of… — Louise Talma Copy Share Image
We define thermodynamics...as the investigation of the dynamical and thermal properties of bodies, deduced entirely from the first and second law of… — James Clerk Maxwell Copy Share Image
The introduction of a substantial Government transfer tax on all transactions might prove the most serviceable reform available,with a view to mitigating… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
.. that a rule, which, in speculation, may seem the most advantageous to society, may yet be found, in practice, totally pernicious… — David Hume Copy Share Image
“This was the very limit beyond which none of them had ever speculated, or even known that there was any speculation to… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
