“In love as as in speculation there is much filth; in love also, people think only of their own gratification; yet without… — Emile Zola Copy Share Image
“In science's pecking order, evolutionary biology lurks somewhere near the bottom, far closer to phrenology than to physics. For evolutionary biology is… — Jerry A. Coyne Copy Share Image
By no amount of reasoning can we altogether eliminate all contingency from our world. Moreover, pure speculation alone will not enable us… — Morris Raphael Cohen Copy Share Image
The imbalance results from ideologies which uphold the absolute autonomy of markets and financial speculation, and thus deny the right of control… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
I struggle with deciding when to answer or ignore the constant speculation about my private life, because I feel like that doesn't… — Lauren London Copy Share Image
Man acts from adequate motives relative to his interest, and not on metaphysical speculations. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
For me the greatest source of income is still movies. Nothing - stocks, financial speculation, real estate speculation or businesses - makes… — Jackie Chan Copy Share Image
If you're doing a good job as author, then you get the reader to engage in whatever speculation might be called for.… — Russell Freedman 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
Speculation and the exploration of ideas beyond what we know with certainty are what lead to progress. — Lisa Randall Copy Share Image
A baboon in a forest is a matter of legitimate speculation; a baboon in a zoo is an object of public curiosity;… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Ask yourself: Am I an investor, or am I a speculator? An investor is a person who owns business and holds it… — John C. Bogle Copy Share Image
Shakespeare and Rembrandt have in common the faculty of quickening speculation and compelling the minds of men to combat and discussion. — William Ernest Henley 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
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
Without the instruments and accumulated knowledge of the natural sciences... humans are trapped in a cognitive prison. They are like intelligent fish… — E. O. Wilson 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
If one looks into the genealogies of many 'old families,' one discovers episodes of slave trafficking, bootlegging, gun running, opium trading, falsified… — Michael Parenti Copy Share Image
What passes for news is just morbid speculation or cartoonish screaming, followed by diaper commercials. — Karen Russell Copy Share Image
Metaphysical speculation is about as pointless as a discussion on the meaning of one's lungs. They're for breathing. — P. D. James Copy Share Image
We can speculate on what's likely, but what's needed is an investigation. And speculation is no substitute for facts. As a former… — Richard Blumenthal Copy Share Image
one of the most mysterious of semi-speculations is, one would suppose, that of one Mind's imagining into another — John Keats Copy Share Image
