Quotes About Speculation

Science fiction works best when it stimulates debate.

I'd always been a science fiction enthusiast.

The best sci-fi stories use the fantastical to remind us of the reality of who we are today, the hope of who we may become tomorrow, and the shame of who we were yesterday.

Good science fiction starts with a question "what if...?

Science fiction deals with improbable possibilities, fantasy with plausible impossibilities.

Science fiction is when we see into the future of our planet, fantasy is when we believe humanity will survive.

In post-modern finance, everybody took a risk when lending or borrowing.

Science fiction is using an exploration of where we might be, to explore where it seems like we are heading, in order to reveal exactly where we are.

science fiction is not about the future but about the possibilities inherent in the present.

We are now in a position to determine just what sort of science fiction story this really is.

I am not afraid of the possibility of finding intelligent life in the universe, I am afraid of the possibility of them finding us

Science is exploration. The fundamental nature of exploration is that we don't know what's there. We can guess and hope and aim to find out certain things, but we have to expect surprises.

In love as in speculation there is much filth; in love also, people think only of their own gratification; yet without love there would be no life, and the world would come to an end.

It was exciting and intellectually gratifying to speculate on what might lie waiting in the black gulfs when one was behind the business end of a telescope, quite another to do so isolated on an unpleasant little speck of a world such as this, confronted by a ship of non-human manufacture that uncomfortably resembled a growth instead of a familiar device for manipulating and overcoming the neat laws of physics.

There never was a Jack the Ripper. Mary Kelly was just an unusually determined suicide. Why don't we leave it there.

People gossip even when they don't care,

Because their supremacist perspective is unquestioned—and the supremacists would prefer it remain that way—all questioning of that supremacism by definition will be classed as speculation, and all speculation on that subject will be discouraged. Of

Philosophy is just a hobby. You can't open a philosophy factory.

was beginning to wonder if he

wondering what sort of person would live in a place like this,

Investing is an activity of forecasting the yield over the life of the asset; speculation is the activity of forecasting the psychology of the market.

The Moon and Mars were the two most likely candidates for life in the solar system; what exists beyond our solar system is mere guesswork.

I've been asked about UFOs and I've said publicly I thought they were somebody else, some other civilization.

I wonder if, in fact, we have been observed by aliens and upon close examination of human conduct and human behavior they have concluded that there is no sign of intelligent life on Earth.