“While you can't control your experiences, you can control your explanations.” — Martin E.P. Seligman Copy Share Image
“mounting a sustained war. Unhappily, these intriguing speculations” — Charles C. Mann Copy Share Image
I am quite conscious that my speculations run beyond the bounds of true science…It is a mere rag of an hypothesis with… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Those who assume hypotheses as first principles of their speculations…may indeed form an ingenious romance, but a romance it will still be. — Roger Cotes Copy Share Image
What wonderful things are events! The least are of greater importance than the most sublime and comprehensive speculations. — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
When facts are few, speculations are most likely to represent individual psychology. — Carl Jung 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
Now let the matter rest as it is, or as it may be, what avail useless speculations? What is to occur we… — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Copy Share Image
Faith's speculations to the worst and hardest, in point of resolution, are sweet. — Samuel Rutherford Copy Share Image
The men are much alarmed by certain speculations about women; and well they may be, for when the horse and ass begin… — Adelaide Anne Procter Copy Share Image
I leave these speculations to others. It’s quite possible that my work represents a search for beauty in the most prosaic and… — Saul Leiter Copy Share Image
I am of the opinion that all the finer speculations in the realm of science spring from a deep religious feeling, and… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
It is scandalous the way some scientists accept uncritically some of the most ridiculous speculations, such as the plurality of worlds, the… — Mario Bunge Copy Share Image
It's complementary. It's fairly clear where the boundaries are. When I start telling you the contents of his head, I am making… — Hilary Mantel 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
The great trick of regarding small departures from the truth as the truth itself - on which is founded the entire integral… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
The media tends to report rumors, speculations, and projections as facts... How does the media do this? By quoting some 'expert'... you… — Peter McWilliams Copy Share Image
As historians, we refuse to allow ourselves these vain speculations which turn on possibilities that, in order to be reduced to actuality,… — Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon Copy Share Image
It is not always the most brilliant speculations nor the choice of the most exotic materials that is most profitable. I prefer… — Noel-Antoine Pluche Copy Share Image
In the last two months I have been very busy with my own mathematical speculations, which have cost me much time, without… — Carl Friedrich Gauss Copy Share Image
“Forget what hurt you in the past, but never forget what it taught you. However, if it taught you to hold onto… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
“There are surely other worlds than this - other thoughts than the thoughts of the multitude - other speculations than the speculations… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
“But you don’t really mean to say that you couldn’t love me if my name wasn’t Ernest? GWENDOLEN: But your name is… — Oscar Wilde 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
“Ah, Death, the spectre which sate at all feasts! How often, Monos, did we lose ourselves in speculations upon its nature! How… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
“There are no detailed Darwinian accounts for the evolution of any fundamental biochemical or cellular system, only a variety of wishful speculations… — James A. Shapiro Copy Share Image
Reading is not a straightforward linear movement, a merely cumulative affair: our initial speculations generate a frame of reference within which to… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
“It is easier to tell a person what life is not, rather than to tell them what it is. A child understands… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
The theories and speculations of men concern us more than their puny accomplishment. It is with a certain coldness and languor that… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image