Quotes About Speculation

In the future, we will surely have even bigger such bubbles, each built up around its new and different new era story, and we will have to invent new names for them.

The word bubble creates a mental picture of an expanding soap bubble, which is destined to pop suddenly and irrevocably. But speculative bubbles are not so easily ended; indeed, they may deflate somewhat, as the story changes, and then reflate.

Is the market high only because of some irrational exuberance — wishful thinking on the part of investors that blinds us to the truth of our situation?

Truth almost always did come out in the end, but by the end, truth was often so wrapped around with rumors and speculation and absolute lies that most people never did believe it.

Laetoli hominins, but we will never be able to answer them all. They walked down a path

This book, in other words, is another empirically grounded speculation, another conceptual itinerary.

For every fact there is an infinity of hypotheses. The more you look the more you see.

notably the 1999 repeal of the US Glass–Steagall Act – allowed commercial banks to become investment banks as well. In addition to investing their depositors' money, they became highly leveraged speculators in the newly developed securities

Many "day traders" eventually lose or go broke because they have poor personal money-management fundamentals.

but we cannot count on the fact that it will go up in value.

It is not gambling if you know what you're doing. It is gambling if you're just throwing money into a deal and praying.

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It was a pleasure to wonder what her elbows must be like.

I wonder which of the girls here are going to be my friends. It's really an interesting speculation

What is the matter with Harrison Miller, anyway?

When speculation becomes "truth," opinion "fact," and prejudice a "holy cause," demagoguery is not far behind.

I did not think of myself as a detective; I was a student of theology, and I was to spend my life in exploration, not of the darker crannies of human misbehaviour, but of the heights of human speculation concerning the nature of the Divine. That the two were not unrelated did not occur to me for years.

I'm sure the universe is full of intelligent life. It's just been too intelligent to come here.

Science fiction, outside of poetry, is the only literary field which has no limits, no parameters whatsoever.

Speculation is perfectly all right, but if you stay there you've only founded a superstition. If you test it, you've started a science.

Some people say they're gathering DNA. Perhaps they're gathering it for the future when the human race is stronger or weaker, who knows. That's science fiction and mere speculation.

The end of knowledge is power ... the scope of all speculation is the performing of some action or thing to be done.

The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it.

Fantasy is the impossible made probable. Science Fiction is the improbable made possible.