Amount Quote by Morris Raphael Cohen

The opposite of speculation is to be present to the world simply as it is.

— Jeff Kober

We can, for example, be fairly confident that either there will be a world without war or there won't be a world - at…

— Noam Chomsky

“Scholars whose conclusions are based on their reasoning, without recourse to experience, are unable to make definite statements about the makeup of this world.…

— Otto Von Guericke

I think that only daring speculation can lead us further and not accumulation of facts.

— Albert Einstein

From the dawn of exact knowledge to the present day, observation, experiment, and speculation have gone hand in hand; and, whenever science has halted…

— Anonymous

Now let the matter rest as it is, or as it may be, what avail useless speculations? What is to occur we do not…

— Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

We want to have certainties and no doubts- results and no experiments- without even seeing that certainties can arise only through doubt and results…

— Carl Jung

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

“The successful development of science requires a proper balance to be maintained between the method of building up from observations and the method of…

— Paul A.M. Dirac

I always start with the assumption that everything that happens in the world is actually in the world. It sounds like an obvious thing…

— Trevor Paglen

When philosophic reason is clear and certain by intuition or necessary induction, no subsequent revelation supported by prophecies or miracles can supersede it.

— John Adams

The world is a possibility if only you'll discover it.

— Ralph Ellison