Speculative Quotes

86 quotes by 76 authors

The man in the street has unfortunately been sold the idea that the breakthrough cure for cancer is just around the corner... The very prospect… — John Cairns
At long as a stock is acting right, and the market is right, do not be in a hurry to take profits. One should never… — Jesse Lauriston Livermore
I like the idea of a big caesura between the narratives, a space which readers can fill in with their own speculative history. — Jonathan Coe
Books appear to be the most immediate instruments of speculative delight. — Richard de Bury
Where do we stand today compared to Greece circa 400 B.C.? Today's experiment-driven 'standard model' is not all that dissimilar to Democritus's speculative [sic] atomic… — Leon M. Lederman
The risks are far greater to your child of not getting immunized than any kind of speculative potential relationship between the vaccine and the development… — Irwin Redlener
The history of this paper suggests that highly speculative investigations, especially by an unknown author, are best brought before the world through some other channel… — John William Strutt
Masonic ideas are the precious jewels of Speculative Masons; the should be kept bright and sparkling for all the brethren to see and to admire.… — Benjamin Franklin
Stock market corrections, although painful at the time, are actually a very healthy part of the whole mechanism, because there are always speculative excesses that… — Ron Chernow
Faith is not a blind thing; for faith begins with knowledge. It is not a speculative thing; for faith believes facts of which it is… — Charles Spurgeon
It has always seemed to me extreme presumptuousness on the part of those who want to make human ability the measure of what nature can… — Galileo Galilei
We've been surrounded by images of space our whole lives, from the speculative images of science fiction to the inspirational visions of artists to the… — Honor Harger
The belief in an external world independent of the perceiving subject is the basis of all natural science. Since, however, sense perception only gives information… — Albert Einstein
The speculative part of my work is that these particular cognitive tasks - ways of thinking analytically - are tied to nature's laws. — Edward Tufte
An early fascination with higher mathematics at the university level blossomed into speculative thinking that could provide a basis for dealing with economic issues. — Lawrence Klein
The question of the origin of life is essentially speculative. We have to construct, by straightforward thinking on the basis of very few factual observations,… — John Desmond Bernal
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
Scottish operative lodges began in the seventeenth century to admit non-operative members as accepted or gentleman masons and that by the early eighteenth century in… — John Hamill
The service of philosophy, of speculative culture, towards the human spirit, is to rouse, to startle it to a life of constant and eager observation. — Walter Pater
If you write thrillers or mysteries or horror fiction or quote-unquote speculative fiction, men might read you, and the 'Times' might notice you. — Jennifer Weiner

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