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Speculation Quotes by Michael Crichton
- In my view, our approach to global warming exemplifies everything that is wrong with our approach to the environment. We are basing our decisions on…
- Most areas of intellectual life have discovered the virtues of speculation, and have embraced them wildly. In academia, speculation is usually dignified as theory.
More Speculation Quotes
- The life of a man who deliberately runs through his fortune often becomes a business speculation; his friends, his pleasures, patrons, and… — Honore de Balzac
- For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation. — Charles Baudelaire
- A man who is all theory is like "a rudderless ship on a shoreless sea." ... Theories and speculations may be indulged… — Elisha Gray
- Intuitive powers played a central role in my scientific work, not wild speculation, yet a valued resource when no other approach was… — Albert Einstein
- The privilege of ruling would be in the hands of the skilled and the learned, with a wide scope left for profitable… — Mikhail Bakunin
- [Theory is] an explanation that has been confirmed to such a degree, by observation and experiment, that knowledgeable experts accept it as… — David Quammen
- "In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth..." Whatever our speculations may be in regard to a "beginning," and when… — Elisha Gray
- The strongest arguments prove nothing so long as the conclusions are not verified by experience. Experimental science is the queen of sciences… — Roger Bacon