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
Books appear to be the most immediate instruments of speculative delight. — Richard de Bury Copy Share Image
“THE MANAGEMENT REGRETS TO INFORM YOU THAT YOU ARE NO LONGER TECHNICALLY ALIVE.” — David Alan King Copy Share Image
I read and write speculative fiction because I want to go someplace really different. — Kameron Hurley Copy Share Image
I would love to take another stab at really smart, speculative sci-fi - my first was a bit of a stumble. I… — Karyn Kusama Copy Share Image
I write speculative fiction, and in my view, speculative fiction is really just a very intense version of the work of literature… — Ken Liu Copy Share Image
I liked painting and drawing, and I liked humanities mainly - poetry, literature - this speculative attitude toward life. — Rafael Moneo Copy Share Image
A maxim is a conclusion upon observation of matters of fact, and is merely speculative; a "principle" carries knowledge within itself, and… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
“we may see another speculative buildup followed by another crash, and so on until God makes people less greedy.” — John Brooks Copy Share Image
“Science fiction is about using speculative scenarios as a lens to examine the human condition.” — Ted Chiang Copy Share Image
I like the idea of a big caesura between the narratives, a space which readers can fill in with their own speculative… — Jonathan Coe Copy Share Image
Speculative joy, the joy derived from being right and being rewarded, may well be similar to the rush felt by a winning… — Michael Steinhardt Copy Share Image
Alternatives to gold and currency and to make a big speculative vehicle - I never considered for one second having anything to… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
One of my central approaches to writing speculative fiction is to take an absurd situation, which we presently feel is normal, and… — Alexander Weinstein Copy Share Image
“GoogleEarthlike soars his mind, through clouds where snowstorms brew; New York State has dropped away, and Massachusetts flew, and Newfoundland is ice-entombed… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
We have failed to protect science against speculative extensions of nature, continuing to assign physical and mathematical properties to hypothetical entities beyond… — Robert Lanza Copy Share Image
There were two qualities about the mutual funds of the 1920s that made them extremely speculative. One was that they were heavily… — Ron Chernow Copy Share Image
“Just as Wallace learned and evolved, Ali was on his own journey of discovery. Starting out as a 15-year-old cook, Ali learned… — Paul Spencer Sochaczewski 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
Those who had been riding the upward wave decide now is the time to get out. Those who thought the increase would… — John Kenneth Galbraith 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
When I go beyond a certain range it's outside of my direct horizon therefore I've got to rely on the writings and… — R. D. Laing 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
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
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
“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
Evolution is a bankrupt speculative philosophy, not a scientific fact. — Jimmy Swaggart 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
Every novel begins with the speculative question, What if "X" happened? That's how you start. — Tom Clancy 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
“The speculative public is incorrigible. In financial terms it cannot count beyond 3.” — Benjamin Graham^David L.Dodd Copy Share Image
