I find it, as ever, very unprofitable to have much to do with men. It is sowing the wind, but not reaping… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I set out with a perfect distrust of my own abilities, a total renunciation of every speculation of my own, and with… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
The highest science, the loftiest speculation, the mightiest philosophy, which can ever engage the attention of a child of God, is the… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
“Goddamn Summerset. I've told him to leave my car when I park it." "I think he did." Peabody flipped on her sunshades,… — J.D. Robb Copy Share Image
I'm a novelist, and idle speculation is what novelists do. How odd to spend one's life trying to pretend that non-existent people… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
I need scarcely say that the beginning and maintenance of life on earth is absolutely and infinitely beyond the range of all… — Lord Kelvin Copy Share Image
Once upon a time, a historian told me that the most important choice a new historian could make was of his or… — A. A. Gill Copy Share Image
One of the peculiarities of recent speculation, especially in America, is that ideas are abandoned in virtue of a mere change of… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
There's a certain degree of speculation that goes into valuations. In so far as the market supports a valuation, everyone who gets… — Brian Acton Copy Share Image
Mystery is an inescapable ingredient of mathematics. Mathematics is full of unanswered questions, which far outnumber known theorems and results. It's the… — Ivars Peterson Copy Share Image
If we choose a weak and foolish speculation as a primary textbook illustration (falsely assuming that the tale possesses a weight of… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
