Quotes About Speculation

Speculation,' I retorted, 'is never a waste of time. It clears away the deadwood in the thickets of deduction.

There was even a trace of mild exhilaration in their attitude. At least, they had a clear-cut task ahead of them. The nine months of indecision, of speculation about what might happen, of aimless drifting with the pack were over. Now they simply had to get themselves out, however appallingly difficult that might be.

he found all religions uninteresting because, almost without exception, they start from the present and speculate ahead as to what men shall become, instead of looking back and speculating why men have got here as they are.

Epigenetics is a discipline that relies more on speculation than genuine scientific understanding. Nevertheless, scholars of race and racism would do well to keep a wary eye on epigenetic research, as this is an avenue whereby many researchers will attempt to resurrect the biological concept of race. Defining 'race': is there a consensus that race is a social construct?

This may sound like a wild speculation, yet, judging from analogy, there may perhaps be within the planetary sphere an Entity Whose consciousness is as far removed from that of man as the consciousness of man is from that of the atom of chemistry.

Derivatives are financial weapons of mass destruction.

What surprises me, what amazes me, is that it seems the military people were expecting to stumble on large quantities of gas, chemical weapons and biological weapons.

They may have turned this up, whether you had the Paula Jones case or not. But again maybe not, but again that's like if a frog had side pockets he'd probably wear a handgun.

I've never been one to bet on the weather.

You can't say for certain what will happen to the weather in the long term.

Though my books are written from a historical perspective, I have goon so far back that I am in the realm of prehistorical speculation rather than simple historical fact to weave my stories around.

My wedding won't be a hush-hush affair. When I get married, everyone will get to know about it... there'll be nothing speculative about my wedding.

Planning my wedding and stuff, there's going to be reasons why people weren't there and nobody knows about why they're not going to be at my wedding.

I am neither a sociologist nor a politician. All I can do is imagine for myself what the future will be like.

I've always had a real interest in the way that science fiction can portray a world that could be different to our world, which I find a really exciting thought.

I like thinking about what could be out there, and I love the questions that sci-fi poses.

I think it's cool that people care so much where I'm going to end up or what I'm going to do.

I read the rumors, and I know there is a cottage industry of meanness out there.

Everyone has an opinion of who you are and what your relationship is about, things that you've done or didn't do in your relationship - and it's just all crap, really. Things that are written about it are all crap.

Any film you make is a crap shoot.

We say, 'The market plummets,' like it's some roaring creature.

You know, when the cost of capital goes down, when credit becomes cheap, people start taking greater and greater risks.

You think of what might have been different if dad had been around, or how I might have turned out as a person. You just don't know. I might not even be playing cricket.

Before I met Park Bo-gum, I was curious what he would be like.