I am a firm believer, that without speculation there is no good and original observation. — Charles Darwin 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
Nothing provokes speculation more than the sight of a woman enjoying herself." - — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
I think the tabloids have become utterly ridiculous. When they just write on pure speculation, that's pretty sick. — Lorrie Morgan Copy Share Image
Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled. — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
The opposite of speculation is to be present to the world simply as it is. — Jeff Kober Copy Share Image
Metaphysical speculation is independent of the physical validity of the Big Bang itself and is irrelevant to our understanding of it. — Lawrence M. Krauss Copy Share Image
I also ask you my friends not to condemn me entirely to the mill of mathematical calculations, and allow me time for… — Johannes Kepler Copy Share Image
People far too often associate derivatives markets with mere speculation, but there are very legitimate businesses that need derivatives to protect themselves… — Fred Ehrsam Copy Share Image
“First impression is not the last reflection of a true friend, so if you are head over heels for someone who just… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
The ceiling on taxation of capital gains reflects the national belief that speculation is a more worthwhile way to make a living… — Calvin Trillin Copy Share Image
You want to know the way to raise money? Put a transaction fee on Wall Street, so maybe we can curb some… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
The whole speculation about morality is an effort to find a way of living which men who live it will instinctively feel… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
The one thing that's absolutely clear is that Karl was not the source for the leak and there's no basis for any… — Robert Luskin Copy Share Image
Though the principles of the banking trade may appear somewhat abstruse, the practice is capable of being reduced to strict rules. To… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
It is also painful to see that the struggle against hunger and malnutrition is hindered by market priorities, the primacy of profit,… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Realizing how often ingenious speculation in the complex biological world has led nowhere and how often the real advances in biology as… — Thomas Hunt Morgan Copy Share Image
There were moments when I wondered at the gossamer veil that stops licence from being libel. I suspect that taking on the… — A. A. Gill Copy Share Image
“The Orient and Islam have a kind of extrareal, phenomenologically reduced status that puts them out of reach of everyone except the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I did not learn my theology all at once, but had to search constantly deeper and deeper for it. My temptations did… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Trading is a small part of the work of the stock exchanges. They are really to do with financial speculation, and they… — Benjamin Creme 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
I'm pretty far out of the loop. There's always a lot of speculation and what-have-you. I'm sure it's fun for people to… — Andrew Ference Copy Share Image
Speculation is only a word covering the making of money out of the manipulation of prices, instead of supplying goods and services. — Henry Ford Copy Share Image
Gout produces calculus in the kidney... the patient has frequently to entertain the painful speculation as to whether gout or stone be… — Thomas Sydenham Copy Share Image
The game of speculation is the most uniformly fascinating game in the world. But it is not a game for the stupid,… — Jesse Lauriston Livermore Copy Share Image
One thing I would always say is speculation is always flattering because if someone is talking about you or linking you to… — Chris Hughton Copy Share Image
To some degree, as I move outside of the exclusive genre audience, the exclusive genre issues don't bother me as much. Maybe… — N. K. Jemisin 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
If you're Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston, and your marriage is breaking up - that's an awful thing. But to see that… — Dave Chappelle Copy Share Image
I have no regrets about my life. People ask, "If you had to do it all over again, would you do it… — Chuck Yeager Copy Share Image
I shall endeavour to enliven Morality with Wit, and to temper Wit with Morality, that my Readers may, if possible, both Ways… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
The vortex theory [of the atom] is only a dream. Itself unproven, it can prove nothing, and any speculations founded upon it… — Lord Kelvin Copy Share Image
Most areas of intellectual life have discovered the virtues of speculation, and have embraced them wildly. In academia, speculation is usually dignified… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
Philosophy is regarded by many as inseparable from speculation. ... Philosophy has proceeded from speculation to science. — Hans Reichenbach Copy Share Image
Speculation is a fool's game, but I've seen many political projections that look like the Taliban could hold most of the country,… — Eliza Griswold 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
Utopian speculations ... must come back into fashion. They are a way of affirming faith in the possibility of solving problems that… — Norman O. Brown Copy Share Image
As this case has progressed, the evidence that the prosecution has claimed exists against me has been proven less and less and… — Amanda Knox Copy Share Image
“I'm very curious to meet a guy who makes you completely forsake the scientific method in favor of unfounded supposition and speculation."… — Rosemary Clement-Moore Copy Share Image
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