“THE MANAGEMENT REGRETS TO INFORM YOU THAT YOU ARE NO LONGER TECHNICALLY ALIVE.” — David Alan King Copy Share Image
Books appear to be the most immediate instruments of speculative delight. — Richard de Bury Copy Share Image
Attempts to estimate the impacts of climate change continue to be highly speculative. — William Nordhaus Copy Share Image
“Nihilism is not an existential quandary but a speculative opportunity.” — Ray Brassier Copy Share Image
Evolution is a bankrupt speculative philosophy, not a scientific fact. — Jimmy Swaggart Copy Share Image
“There is a great difference between historical facts and speculative opinions ; nor is the knowledge of the one propagated in the… — David Hume Copy Share Image
The service of philosophy, of speculative culture, towards the human spirit, is to rouse, to startle it to a life of constant… — Walter Pater Copy Share Image
All the interests of my reason, speculative as well as practical, combine in the three following questions: 1. What can I know?… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
The speculative part of my work is that these particular cognitive tasks - ways of thinking analytically - are tied to nature's… — Edward Tufte Copy Share Image
The history of science is everywhere speculative. It is a marvelous hiatory. It makes you proud to be a human being. — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
At bottom each “exact” science is, and must be speculative, and its chief tool of research, too rarely used with both courage… — Reginald Aldworth Daly Copy Share Image
Speculative stock movements are carried too far in both directions, frequently in the general market and at all times in at least… — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
My last book was speculative. I just don't quite know what I am doing. But I'll get there. I have a list… — Jami Attenberg Copy Share Image
By millions of years, time winged onward through eternity, to the end - the end, of which, in the old-earth days, I… — William Hope Hodgson Copy Share Image
The question of the origin of life is essentially speculative. We have to construct, by straightforward thinking on the basis of very… — John Desmond Bernal Copy Share Image
Science usually operates in sort of three modes, things that are well established, we know what we're talking about, more highly confident.… — Stephen Schneider Copy Share Image
Bold ideas, unjustified anticipations, and speculative thought, are our only means for interpreting nature: our only organon, our only instrument, for grasping… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
“In many ways sci-fi is a natural progression from the magical worlds we inhabited as children. Speculative fiction opens up parallel universes… — Ella Berthoud Copy Share Image
“And yet—this fascination with the future has generated its own antithesis, particularly in the so-called affluent or developed societies. There is a… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
There's more to research than just looking up facts. Eventually, you have to make subjective calls. If you're writing a science fiction… — Andy Weir Copy Share Image
We have little choice but to place a certain level of trust in scientists - even when it comes to the model-driven… — David Harsanyi Copy Share Image
“Quarantine is real s.f. It is speculative fiction whose adventures of the mind are based in our contemporary understanding of what the… — Karen Burnham Copy Share Image
“Irrational exuberance is the psychological basis of a speculative bubble. I define a speculative bubble as a situation in which news of… — Robert J. Shiller Copy Share Image
When we look to presumed sources of origin for competing evolutionary explanations of the giraffe's long neck, we find either nothing at… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Science fiction - and the correct shortcut is 'sf' - uses actual scientific facts or theories for the source ideas or framework… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“True. And there are an infinite number of universes, of course, in which we don't exist at all - that is, no… — Fredric Brown Copy Share Image
Speculators are obsessed with predicting: guessing the direction of stock prices. Every morning on cable television, every afternoon on the stock market… — Seth Klarman Copy Share Image
A wonderful area for speculative academic work is the unknowable. These days religious subjects are in disfavor, but there are still plenty… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
“People think--wrongly--that speculative fiction is about predicting the future, but it isn’t; or if it is, it tends to do a rotten… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I read and write speculative fiction because I want to go someplace really different. — Kameron Hurley Copy Share Image
If speculative ideas can not be tested, they're not science; they don't even rise to the level of being wrong. — Wolfgang Pauli Copy Share Image
My wedding won't be a hush-hush affair. When I get married, everyone will get to know about it... there'll be nothing speculative… — Bipasha Basu Copy Share Image
Every novel begins with the speculative question, What if "X" happened? That's how you start. — Tom Clancy Copy Share Image
“The speculative public is incorrigible. In financial terms it cannot count beyond 3.” — Benjamin Graham^David L.Dodd Copy Share Image
In reality, no one knows what the market will do; trying to predict it is a waste of time, and investing based… — Seth Klarman Copy Share Image
