Speculation Quotes

280 quotes by 245 authors

There is a philosophy that says that if something is unobservable -- unobservable in principle -- it is not part of science. If there is… — Leonard Susskind
Speculation and the exploration of ideas beyond what we know with certainty are what lead to progress. — Lisa Randall
In practical life the wisest and soundest people avoid speculation. — George Earle Buckle
I leave these speculations to others. Itâ€™s quite possible that my work represents a search for beauty in the most prosaic and ordinary places. One… — Saul Leiter
Many questions remain in the UFO controversy. Scientists ask how interstellar pilots could survive a trip of hundreds of years while cutting-edge physicists offer speculation… — Jim Marrs
.. that a rule, which, in speculation, may seem the most advantageous to society, may yet be found, in practice, totally pernicious and destructive. — David Hume
Buy an annuity cheap, and make your life interesting to yourself and everybody else that watches the speculation. — Charles Dickens
This can never become popular, and, indeed, has no occasion to be so; for fine-spun arguments in favour of useful truths make just as little… — Immanuel Kant
A moment of happiness, you and I sitting on the verandah, apparently two, but one in soul, you and I. We feel the flowing water… — Rumi
Progress is the exploration of our own error. Evolution is a consolidation of what have always begun as errors. And errors are of two kinds:… — Jacob Bronowski
If the people of this religion [Islam] are asked about the proof for the soundness of their religion, they flare up, get angry and spill… — Muhammad ibn Abu Bakr
There was a long history of speculation that in quantum gravity, unlike Einstein's classical theory, it might be possible for the topology of spacetime to… — Edward Witten
I know there's a great deal of speculation, and while I appreciate the interest, kind of, my contract ends in May and I'm trying to… — Katie Couric
You're trying too hard to find a correlation here. You don't know these people, you don't know what they intended. You try to compile statistics… — Marc Racicot
Restoration ecology is experimental science, a science of love and altruism. In its attempts to reverse the processes of ecosystem degradation it runs exactly counter… — Stephanie Mills
The much-maligned idle rich have received a bad rap: They have maintained their wealth while many There is scarcely an instance of a man who… — Warren Buffett
The belief that the soul continues its existence after the dissolution of the body is a matter of philosophical or theological speculation rather than of… — James H. Cone
Utopian speculations ... must come back into fashion. They are a way of affirming faith in the possibility of solving problems that seem at the… — Norman O. Brown
Fear and hope remain the same; therefore the study of the psychology of speculators is as valuable as it ever was. Weapons change, but strategy… — Edwin Lefevre
It takes a man a long time to learn all the lessons of all of his mistakes. They say there are two sides to everything.… — Edwin Lefevre

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