If the world were good for nothing else, it is a fine subject for speculation. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
...the discipline of economics has yet to get over its childish passion for mathematics and for purely theoretical and often highly ideological… — Thomas Piketty Copy Share Image
Creative work is play. It is free speculation using materials of ones chosen form. — Stephen Nachmanovitch Copy Share Image
Time destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature. — Marcus Tullius Cicero 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
Gold is unique because it has the age-old aspect of being viewed as a store of value. Nevertheless, it’s still a commodity… — Seth Klarman Copy Share Image
Beyond the hype, style, and speculation, the truth is that the iPad is really just another tablet device. A really big PDA,… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
I know nothing more annoying when people I don't know jump to conclusions on my person based on nothing but gossip or… — Nikolaj Coster-Waldau Copy Share Image
An isolated person requires correspondence as a means of seeing his ideas as others see them, and thus guarding against the dogmatisms… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
Not until the empirical resources are exhausted, need we pass on to the dreamy realms of speculation. — Edwin Powell Hubble Copy Share Image
Buddhism is a hundred times as realistic as Christianity it is part of its living heritage that it is able to face… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
In psychoanalysis as in art, God resided in the details, the discovery of which required enormous patience, unyielding seriousness, and the skill… — Judith Perelman Rossner 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
Some go to church to take a walk; some go there to laugh and talk. Some go there to meet a friend;… — Charles Spurgeon 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 leads you the wrong way. It allows you to put your emotions first, whereas investment gets emotions out of the picture. — John C. Bogle 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
Socialist thought owes its appeal to the young largely to its visionary character; the very courage to indulge in Utopian thought is… — Friedrich August von Hayek 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
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
Today, we know that time travel need not be confined to myths, science fiction, Hollywood movies, or even speculation by theoretical physicists.… — Clifford A. Pickover 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
True myths may serve for thousands of years as an inexhaustible source of intellectual speculation, religious joy, ethical inquiry, and artistic renewal.… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
The artist must scorn all judgment that is not based on an intelligent observation of character. He must beware of the literary… — Paul Cezanne Copy Share Image
