Again and again Quote by Carl Friedrich Gauss

Most areas of intellectual life have discovered the virtues of speculation, and have embraced them wildly. In academia, speculation is usually dignified as theory.

— Michael Crichton

I feel that I've had enough theoretical speculation to last me a lifetime.

— Susan Sontag

The opposite of speculation is to be present to the world simply as it is.

— Jeff Kober

In practical life the wisest and soundest people avoid speculation.

— George Earle Buckle

Speculation and the exploration of ideas beyond what we know with certainty are what lead to progress.

— Lisa Randall

An early fascination with higher mathematics at the university level blossomed into speculative thinking that could provide a basis for dealing with economic issues.

— Anonymous

I'm very happy for others to engage in conjecture, but if I was ever conscious of what I'm thinking about when I'm writing, oh…

— Peter Morgan

My special pleasure in mathematics rested particularly on its purely speculative part.

— Bernard Bolzano

The fear of speculation, the ostensible rush from the theoretical to the practical, brings about the same shallowness in action that it does in…

— Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling

I perceive myself as rather uninhibited, with a certain mathematical facility and more interest in the broad aspect of a problem than the delicate…

— Henry B. Eyring

Just because you're starting from something which you know - a theory which you know is right and trying to further develop your understand…

— Peter Woit

Not until the empirical resources are exhausted, need we pass on to the dreamy realms of speculation.

— Edwin Powell Hubble