Speculation Quotes

280 quotes by 235 authors

Mystery is an inescapable ingredient of mathematics. Mathematics is full of unanswered questions, which far outnumber known theorems and results. It's the nature of mathematics… — Ivars Peterson
Establishing a 0.03 percent Wall Street speculation fee, similar to what we had from 1914-1966, would dampen the dangerous level of speculation and gambling on… — Bernie Sanders
Gout produces calculus in the kidney... the patient has frequently to entertain the painful speculation as to whether gout or stone be the worst disease.… — Thomas Sydenham
The idea for each of the stories in this book came in a moment of belief and was written in a burst of faith, happiness,… — Stephen King
... science and speculation pass into mystery at last. — William Mountford
These are questions for action, not speculation, which is idle. — Noam Chomsky
It is from this absolute indifference and tranquillity of the mind, that mathematical speculations derive some of the most considerable advantages; because there is nothing… — Edmund Burke
Bulls don't read. Bears read financial history. As markets fall to bits, the bears dust off the Dutch tulip mania of 1637, the Banque Royale… — James Buchan
In the middle classes the gifted son of a family is always the poorest -- usually a writer or artist with no sense for speculation… — John Millington Synge
Life must be something more than dilettante speculation. — Anna Julia Cooper
I have never indulged our society's misguided notion that my personal life is relevant to my work, so any reporting surrounding that is necessarily hearsay,… — Billy Crudup
When we come to images or memories or thoughts, speculation, while always closely related to practice, is more explicit, and it is in fact not… — Samuel Alexander
You cannot exist as a $20 billion company with speculation. — Eike Batista
It reveals to me the causes of many natural phenomena that are entirely incomprehensible in the light of the generally accepted hypotheses. To refute the… — Galileo Galilei
The game of speculation is the most uniformly fascinating game in the world. But it is not a game for the stupid, the mentally lazy,… — Jesse Lauriston Livermore
You can get on with your job. I'm going to get on with mine. And mine is to deliver for the people of Northern Ireland,… — Peter Hain
We insist on producing a farm surplus, but think the government should find a profitable market for it. We overindulge in speculation, but ask the… — Calvin Coolidge
The only way to know something absolutely is to experience it for yourself; anything less is theory, speculation, and belief. . — Rajneesh
In exploring new and doubtful tracts of speculation, the mind strikes out true and original views; as a drop of water hesitates at first what… — William Hazlitt
We are perpetually moralists, but we are geometricians only by chance. Our intercourse with intellectual nature is necessary; our speculations upon matter are voluntary, and… — Samuel Johnson

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