Quotes About Speculation

Can we all please - I don't want anybody buying cryptocurrencies, okay? Stop it. Enough already. Or buy Bitcoin, don't buy Ethereum.

All anyone agreed on was that Kurban Said was the pen name of a writer who had probably come from Baku, an oil city in the Caucasus, and that he was either a nationalist poet who was killed in the Gulags or the dilettante son of an oil millionaire or a Viennese cafe-society writer who died after stabbing himself in the foot.

Science fiction is what we point to when we say it.

I wanted the ending of 'Water Lilies' to be open, so that everyone can have their point of view about what will happen to the girls.

I say I write extrapolations. I look at data points and ask what the world could look like.

I can't really comment on rumors.

I can never really comment on rumours.

Everyone makes their own comments. That's how rumors get started.

There's been rumors going round. I never confirm any of them.

I haven't checked, but I highly suspect that chickens evolved from an egg-laying ancestor, which would mean that there were, in fact, eggs before there were chickens. Genius.

I do suspect we are going to get signs of life elsewhere, but how well prepared are we for this? Have we thought how we will approach them? We need to start thinking about that.

I'm involved in the stock market, which is fun and, sometimes, very painful.

The goal of religious thinking is exactly the same as that of technological research -- namely, practical action. Whenever man is truly concerned with obtaining concrete results, whenever he is hard pressed by reality, he abandons abstract speculation and reverts to a mode of response that becomes increasingly cautious and conservative as the forces he hopes to subdue, or at least to outrun, draw ever nearer.

When he learned that he'd lost what remained of his fortune, he went up onto the moors and shot himself with his grouse gun, although how he managed to do it has always been the object of speculation, my father never having been a particularly good shot.

O]ur English divines are sounder in it than any in the world, generally: I think because they are more practical, and have had more wounded, tender consciences under cure, and less empty speculation and dispute (336-7).

Fiction isn't what 'was'. It's 'what if'?

Limburg remained what society had been from the first: an amateur speculation. Life, the provincials insisted, might yet be anything we told it to be.

La teoria redime i fenomeni; è una congettura fortunata.

we cannot rule out the

Why are they so sad?" I asked. "Well, they're dead," Carter speculated.

The best science fiction can shape how humans see their own future.

Corre um boato por ai, que a linda menina que vem hoje, pode ser a rainha que eles estão esperando.

There's some speculation that the mind of a serial killer is so abnormal that their thoughts literally 'misfire' so that the electromagnetic energy spills into the brain and causes changes at the molecular level. Just the way a head injury can trigger latent psychic abilities by jolting the brain, so can these misfires.

Oh, I think they've got a friend there, someone who used to live here. That's not the point. The point is, they claim they saw this … person. Working there in this open-plan office. And, well, you know. They reckon this person's a possible. For me.