Speculative Quotes

86 quotes by 76 authors

Speculative fiction encompasses that which we could actually do. Sci-fi is that which we're probably not going to see. — Margaret Atwood
True science is never speculative; it employs hypotheses as suggesting points for inquiry, but it never adopts the hypotheses as though they were demonstrated propositions. — Cleveland Abbe
He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher... or, as his wife would have it, an idiot. — Douglas Adams
The risk of developing carcinoma of the lung increases steadily as the amount smoked increases. If the risk among non-smokers is taken as unity and… — Richard Doll
My studies in Speculative philosophy, metaphysics, and science are all summed up in the image of a mouse called man running in and out of… — Benjamin De Casseres
You believe in the God who plays dice, and I in complete law and order in a world that objectively exists, and which I, in… — Albert Einstein
Concentrating wealth in the hands of the few and deregulating financial institutions and practices lead to speculative bubbles that eventually burst - and that brings… — Jennifer Granholm
Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination. What are now working conceptions, employed as a matter of course because… — John Dewey
Natural science is founded on minute critical views of the general order of events taking place upon our globe, corrected, enlarged, or exalted by experiments,… — Humphry Davy
This truth may be handled either sinfully or profitably; sinfully as when it is treated on only to satisfy curiosity, and to keep up a… — Anthony Burgess
My final remark to young women and men going into experimental science is that they should pay little attention to the speculative physics ideas of… — Martin Lewis Perl
I did precisely the wrong thing. The cotton showed me a loss and I kept it. The wheat showed me a profit and I sold… — Jesse Lauriston Livermore
Whenever a single definite object is made the supreme end of the State, be it the advantage of a class, the safety of the power… — Lord Acton
I've always believed that a speculative bubble need not lead to a recession, as long as interest rates are cut quickly enough to stimulate alternative… — Paul Krugman
Currency speculation-over a trillion dollars a day-is a tax-free activity. The notion of a tax on "day trades" or other speculative swaps was revived in… — Eric Kierans
Man tries to make for himself in the fashion that suits him best a simplified and intelligible picture of the world; he then tries to… — Albert Einstein
We are not to consider ourselves, while here, as at church or school, to listen to the harangues of speculative piety; we are here to… — Fisher Ames
The determination of the average man is not merely a matter of speculative curiosity; it may be of the most important service to the science… — Adolphe Quetelet
This is what the painter, the poet, the speculative philosopher, and the natural scientists do, each in his own fashion. — Albert Einstein
Do you sincerely declare that you love mankind in general, of what profession or religion soever? Do you think any person ought to be harmed… — Benjamin Franklin

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