Speculations Quotes

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The privilege of ruling would be in the hands of the skilled and the learned, with a wide scope left for profitable crooked deals carried… — Mikhail Bakunin
Lovers may be and indeed generally are enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a… — Lord Byron
Geology differs as widely from cosmogony, as speculations concerning the creation of man differ from history. — Charles Lyell
Surgical knowledge depends on long practice, not from speculations. — Marcello Malpighi
The vortex theory [of the atom] is only a dream. Itself unproven, it can prove nothing, and any speculations founded upon it are mere dreams… — Lord Kelvin
Speculations apparently the most unprofitable have almost invariably been those from which the greatest practical applications have emanated. — John Herschel
I also ask you my friends not to condemn me entirely to the mill of mathematical calculations, and allow me time for philosophical speculations, my… — Johannes Kepler
In the last two months I have been very busy with my own mathematical speculations, which have cost me much time, without my having reached… — Carl Friedrich Gauss
I am quite conscious that my speculations run beyond the bounds of true science....It is a mere rag of an hypothesis with as many flaw[s]… — Charles Darwin
To model our political system upon speculations of lasting tranquility, is to calculate on the weaker springs of the human character. — Alexander Hamilton
The hybridoma technology was a by-product of basic research. Its success in practical applications is to a large extent the result of unexpected and unpredictable… — Cesar Milstein
...learning chiefly in mathematical sciences can so swallow up and fix one's thought, as to possess it entirely for some time; but when that amusement… — Gilbert Burnet
As historians, we refuse to allow ourselves these vain speculations which turn on possibilities that, in order to be reduced to actuality, suppose an overturning… — Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
Generally speaking, geologists seem to have been much more intent on making little worlds of their own, than in examining the crust of that which… — Henry De la Beche
A man who is all theory is like "a rudderless ship on a shoreless sea." ... Theories and speculations may be indulged in with safety… — Elisha Gray
It is interesting thus to follow the intellectual truths of analysis in the phenomena of nature. This correspondence, of which the system of the world… — Pierre-Simon Laplace
The artist must scorn all judgment that is not based on an intelligent observation of character. He must beware of the literary spirit which so… — Paul Cezanne
In arriving at a decision in a question of doubt, the apostles in the Acts were guided solely by their sense of the Spirit behind… — Roland Allen
It is not always the most brilliant speculations nor the choice of the most exotic materials that is most profitable. I prefer Monsieur de Reaumur… — Noel-Antoine Pluche
It was my first meeting with a philosophy that confirmed my vague speculations and seemed at once logical and boundless. — William Butler Yeats

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