Cozy Quote by David Grinspoon

If speculative ideas can not be tested, they're not science; they don't even rise to the level of being wrong.

— Wolfgang Pauli

Just because you're starting from something which you know - a theory which you know is right and trying to further develop your understand…

— Peter Woit

I am of the opinion that all the finer speculations in the realm of science spring from a deep religious feeling, and that without…

— Albert Einstein

Most areas of intellectual life have discovered the virtues of speculation, and have embraced them wildly. In academia, speculation is usually dignified as theory.

— Michael Crichton

Speculative fiction encompasses that which we could actually do. Sci-fi is that which we're probably not going to see.

— Margaret Atwood

Science requires speculation, creativity, and wild ideas.

— Debra Fischer

Many of the concepts we once thought belonged to speculation or science fiction are now part of our understood reality.

— Michael Helm

In practical life the wisest and soundest people avoid speculation.

— George Earle Buckle

“Speculative fiction by definition is geared toward an audience that wants strangeness, an audience that wants to spend time in worlds that absolutely are…

— Orson Scott Card

True science is never speculative; it employs hypotheses as suggesting points for inquiry, but it never adopts the hypotheses as though they were demonstrated…

— Cleveland Abbe

“People think--wrongly--that speculative fiction is about predicting the future, but it isn’t; or if it is, it tends to do a rotten job of…

— Neil Gaiman

“In many ways sci-fi is a natural progression from the magical worlds we inhabited as children. Speculative fiction opens up parallel universes to which…

— Ella Berthoud