Quotes About Speculation

I am sorry to say there is too much point to the wise crack that life is extinct on other planets because their scientists were more advanced than ours.

Some say he died. Codswallop, in my opinion. Dunno if he had enough human left in him to die. Some say he's still out there, bidin' his time, like, but I don' believe it.

We not only romanticize the future; we have also made it into a growth industry, a parlor game and a disaster movie all at the same time.

In reality, no one knows what the market will do; trying to predict it is a waste of time, and investing based upon that prediction is a speculative undertaking.

Time destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature.

But know this. All is speculation under the sky. All myth, all religion, all philosophy, all history—is lies.

I wonder what it's like to be dead.

Whoever wants to know how it's all going to end before it actually does? Only poets and madmen, I would think.

Hah. In that wise, we had best put speculation aside, and consider the evidence of our senses.

one ponders. And when one ponders, one creates theories—hypotheses, to explain the world.

We're all interested in life outside of Earth. We all have a fascination with what's out there because we don't really know.

It's overwhelmingly likely that life exists on other planets.

I'll never know what my life would have been like if they hadn't made Lawrence of Arabia. What would I be? I would maybe have 10 children, a very fat wife. I would be very fat myself. I don't know.

When you look at the basis for the immortality of the soul, you have these foundationless speculations and really, no intelligent reason for believing that there's life after death.

It has been suggested that the aliens are many thousands of years ahead of human beings in their mastery of various technologies. Perhaps so. In any event, we cannot begin to answer any of these questions within the framework of modern science.

However, at the present time this is merely speculation. There is little hard data about the accuracy of material transformed from traumatic to semantic memory. More research is needed in this area.

After I disappeared, the locals put two and two together and got seven.

Why not?" Then she thought further. "I wonder what Halt will say when we put it to him.

Where what is known is so surprising and where what is unknown is so extensive, almost anything can be surmised

Most hedge funds fail: 90 percent of all the hedge funds that have ever existed have closed or gone broke.

This is medieval speculation on the origin of paganism, and it ascribes to pagans a kind of natural religion, one based on unenlightened observation of the environment.

The achievement of late eighth-century scholars was to begin to understand certain of the logical doctrines developed in antiquity, and to bring these into a relation with theology which provided the stimulus for philosophical speculation.

The game of professional investment is intolerably boring and overexacting to anyone who is entirely exempt from the gambling instinct; whilst he who has it must pay to this propensity the appropriate toll

Whatever the objects were, there were a lot of them. I did a little quick mental math and figured that there must be a thousand of them in this bay alone. They might be alive. Or at least, aliveable.