Speculative Quotes

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There are some who maintain that trade will regulate itself, and it is not to be benefited by the encouragements or restraints of government. Such… — Alexander Hamilton
We hear much nowadays as to the speculative ideas of men concerning the condition beyond the grave; but the admission that there is an individual… — James E. Talmage
In practical life we are compelled to follow what is most probable ; in speculative thought we are compelled to follow truth. — Baruch Spinoza
Man is constituted as a speculative being; he contemplates the world, and the objects around him, not with a passive indifferent eye, but as a… — John Herschel
No man can be a compleat Lawyer by universalitie of knowledge without experience in particular cases, nor by bare experience without universalitie of knowledge; he… — Edward Coke
Nonetheless, it still remains true that as a set of cognitive beliefs, religious doctrines constitute a speculative hypothesis of an extremely low order of probability. — Sidney Hook
I wrote speculative fiction because I loved to read it, and thought I could do better than some of the people who were getting published. — Fred Saberhagen
House prices have risen by nearly 25 percent over the past two years. Although speculative activity has increased in some areas, at a national level… — Ben Bernanke
The earliest and most primitive known members of every order already have the basic ordinal characters, and in no case is an approximately continuous sequence… — George Gaylord Simpson
The true secret of success in the investment and speculative world is not so much which good securities to buy, but rather which investments to… — Morton Shulman
It is easy to see that a greater self-reliance must work a revolution in all the offices and relations of men; in their religion; in… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Thus the same object may supply a practical perception to one person and a speculative one to another, or the same person may perceive it… — Samuel Alexander
Historians don't really like to carry on speculative debates, but you could certainly argue that the likelihood of a Soviet invasion of Western Europe was… — Aldrich Ames
I fear that, in the end, the famous debate among materialists, idealists, and dualists amounts to a merely verbal dispute that is more a matter… — Moses Mendelssohn
We shall do well ever to remember, that Christianity is not a mere speculative theory, that is to inform the mind; but a great practical… — Charles Simeon
At first sight nothing seems more obvious than that everything has a beginning and an end, and that everything can be subdivided into smaller parts.… — Svante Arrhenius
I shall endeavour still further to prosecute this inquiry, an inquiry I trust not merely speculative, but of sufficient moment to inspire the pleasing hope… — Edward Jenner
My special pleasure in mathematics rested particularly on its purely speculative part. — Bernard Bolzano
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
When a truth is necessary, the reason for it can be found by analysis, that is, by resolving it into simpler ideas and truths until… — Gottfried Leibniz

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