Quotes About Speculation

Predicting oil prices is anyone's guess.

In a bubble, eventually people start saying, 'Wait a minute... these prices are way too high! What is anyone buying anymore? What could they possibly be thinking?' And then there's a correction and a bursting.

Funny money has always been the reason housing prices have risen too fast. First, it was liar loans and negative-amortizing mortgages, where the total amount you owed increased rather than decreased every month. We all know how that ended, with the global financial crisis of 2008.

There is no chance of my marrying Princess Margaret.

Anything can happen in SF. And the fact that nothing ever does happen in SF is only due to the poverty of our imaginations, we who write it or edit it or read it. But SF can in principle deal with anything.

People don't know what goes on in my private life, so they have to make conjecture from something that is photographed.

We may not find the answers. We may not find Bigfoot. We may not find a chupacabra. We may not find out who was responsible for killing JFK, but we're going to keep looking, asking, probing. And one day - you know what? - we may get some of those answers.

If there were creatures on Uranus - and I don't think there are - seasonal affective disorder would be a lifetime thing.

With 'Extinction Machine,' I wanted to start some conversations about whether we're alone in the universe and what that might mean.

Whether there is spec buying or not is not the greatest factor in the high cost of pharmaceuticals.

I think teens are drawn to these speculative books that portray what might happen and what could happen.

What about the hero of The House on the Strand? What did it mean when he dropped the telephone at the end of the book? I don't really know, but I rather think he was going to be paralysed for life. Don't you?

Titan has no liquid water on its surface, and any liquid water beneath its surface is inaccessible to us, as far as we know. It has hydrocarbon lakes, but we don't know of any organisms that could live in those, not at the temperatures that we find on Titan. Any reference to possible life in lakes on the surface of Titan is pure speculation.

Just for a moment, as he pulled himself back inside the Land Rover, Strike wondered where he'd be if he lived to eighty, and who'd be there with him.

The inner meaning of history . . . involves speculation and an attempt to get at the truth, subtle explanation of the causes and origins of existing things, and deep knowledge of the how and why of events. (History,) therefore, is firmly rooted in philosophy. It deserves to be accounted a branch of (philosophy).

Robert J. Shiller

We have failed to protect science against speculative extensions of nature, continuing to assign physical and mathematical properties to hypothetical entities beyond what is observable in nature.

For every fact there is an infinity of hypotheses.

The most serious drawback to the telling-nothing approach is that it made that much more of a mystery of what had happened, and the nature of gossip abhors a vacuum of the unexplained.

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

Science fiction makes the implausible possible, while science fantasy makes the impossible plausible.

I have often asked myself, "What would it look like if the characters in a movie were animatronic puppets created by aliens with an imperfect mastery of human behavior?" Now I know.

His ties were the subject of constant speculation...The knots ranged in size from microscopic to a bulky samosa.

27 de octubre Todo el mundo conjetura —así lo siento— el grado de intensidad de un duelo. Pero imposible (signos irrisorios, contradictorios) medir hasta qué punto alguien ha sido alcanzado.