Speculation Quotes

280 quotes by 245 authors

One day while studying a Yeats poem I decided to write poetry the rest of my life. I recognized that a single short poem has… — Robert Bly
In spite of the haze of speculation, it is still something of a shock to find myself here, coming to terms with an enormous trust… — Rowan Williams
FAUSTUS. Had I as many souls as there be stars, I'd give them all for Mephistophilis. By him I'll be great emperor of the world,… — Christopher Marlowe
Consider the concepts referred to in the words 'where', 'when', 'why', 'being', to the elucidation of which innumerable volumes of philosophy have been devoted. We… — Albert Einstein
Results rarely specify their causes unambiguously. If we have no direct evidence of fossils or human chronicles, if we are forced to infer a process… — Stephen Jay Gould
Speculations? I have none. I am resting on certainties. — Michael Faraday
In fact, the ultimate speculation we can make about the nature of Divinity is that Divinity is NO-THING which we can know. In Hebrew, the… — Donald Michael Kraig
Mathematics is ordinarily considered as producing precise and dependable results; but in the stock market the more elaborate and abstruse the mathematics the more uncertain… — Benjamin Graham
Part of my attraction to ancient art is that there is an element of risk, of speculation. — Michael Steinhardt
His subject is the "Origin of Species," & not the origin of Organization; & it seems a needless mischief to have opened the latter speculation… — Harriet Martineau
Speculation has been singularly fruitful as to what these markings on our next to nearest neighbor in space may mean. Each astronomer holds a different… — Percival Lowell
I am apt to suspect the Negroes to be naturally inferior to the Whites. There scarcely ever was a civilization of their complexion, nor even… — David Hume
The whole speculation about morality is an effort to find a way of living which men who live it will instinctively feel is good. — Walter Lippmann
Shakespeare and Rembrandt have in common the faculty of quickening speculation and compelling the minds of men to combat and discussion. — William Ernest Henley
Secrecy is a vacuum and nothing fills a vacuum like paranoid speculation. — Max Brooks
An extensive knowledge is needful to thinking people-it takes away the heat and fever; and helps, by widening speculation, to ease the burden of the… — John Keats
The existence of pleasure is the first mystery. The existence of pain has prompted far more philosophical speculation. Pleasure and pain need to be considered… — John Berger
The ceiling on taxation of capital gains reflects the national belief that speculation is a more worthwhile way to make a living than work. — Calvin Trillin
Though my books are written from a historical perspective, I have goon so far back that I am in the realm of prehistorical speculation rather… — Jean M. Auel
Monotheism owes its existence not to philosophic speculation about the nature of reality or knowledge or virtue, but to acceptance of reality identified with a… — Israel Shenker

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