Speculative Quotes

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I'm not very much of a reader really, because I find much of it very bad, very uninteresting, very speculative. — Henning Mankell
I believe in poetic discourse, in the value of speech in a non-naturalistic way; it's speculative. — Howard Barker
For it is necessary in every practical science to proceed in a composite (i.e. deductive) manner. On the contrary in speculative science, it is necessary… — Thomas Aquinas
There is more to be pondered in the grain and texture of life than traditional fiction allows. The work of essayists is vital precisely because… — Charles J. Shields
Thus I live in the world rather as a Spectator of mankind, than as one of the species, by which means I have made myself… — Joseph Addison
In practical matters the end is not mere speculative knowledge of what is to be done, but rather the doing of it. It is not… — Aristotle
A new and speculative idea, which although it may seem trivial and almost laughable, is nonetheless of great value in quickening the spirit of invention. — Michael J. Gelb
In actions of enthusiasm, this drawback appears: but in those lower activities, which have no higher aim than to make us more comfortable and more… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
As a writer of fiction who deals with technology, I necessarily deal with the history of technology and the history of technologically induced social change.… — William Gibson
All the interests of my reason, speculative as well as practical, combine in the three following questions: 1. What can I know? 2. What ought… — Immanuel Kant
We have failed to protect science against speculative extensions of nature, continuing to assign physical and mathematical properties to hypothetical entities beyond what is observable… — Robert Lanza
A single agency responsible for systemic risk would be accountable in a way that no regulator was in the run-up to the 2008 crisis. With… — Henry Paulson
Evolution is a bankrupt speculative philosophy, not a scientific fact. Only a spiritually bankrupt society could ever believe it. Only atheists could accept this Satanic… — Jimmy Swaggart
I glanced at Radu. "What, exactly is Louis-Cesare's problem?'. [..] Suddenly a speculative gleam lit his eyes. It made me nervous. 'He tends to be… — Karen Chance
A wonderful area for speculative academic work is the unknowable. These days religious subjects are in disfavor, but there are still plenty of good topics.… — Michael Crichton
Let us be dreamers, thinkers, speculative philosophers, or as our spouses would have it: Idiots — Douglas Adams
Two questions form the foundation of all novels: "What if?" and "What next?" (A third question, "What now?", is one the author asks himself every… — Tom Clancy
... scientific research is compounded of ... empirical procedures, general speculative ideas, and mathematical or abstract reasoning. — James Bryant Conant
I liked painting and drawing, and I liked humanities mainly - poetry, literature - this speculative attitude toward life. — Rafael Moneo
Speculative joy, the joy derived from being right and being rewarded, may well be similar to the rush felt by a winning gambler. — Michael Steinhardt

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