Quotes About Speculation

A silent observer in the early morning could mean many things, for a prisoner, and none likely to her benefit.

My personal feeling about science fiction is that it's always in some way connected to the real world, to our everyday world.

History and speculation have placed Antinous at Hadrian's side as the one great attachment of the emperor's life, the loss of whom caused this mature, sophisticated and highly experienced ruler to allow himself to be subsumed by grief.

This must be the way most of us maneuver in the world, half knowing, half not, visited by memories that can't possibly be true. But when I see others walking with confidence down the street, as though they are free completely from terror, I realize I don't know how others are. So much of life seems speculation.

This must be the way most of us maneuver through the world, half knowing, half not, visited by memories that can't possibly be true. But when I see others walking with confidence down the sidewalk, as though they are free completely from terror, I realize I don't know how others are. So much of life seems speculation.

So much of life seems speculation.

From a drop of water a logician could infer the possibility of an Atlantic or a Niagara without having seen or heard of one or the other.

There is no event in Nature," Galileo wrote, "such that it will be completely understood by theorists."36 God's perfection was to be found in the numbers, not in the shapes or objects. Yet without real objects, the math can become an exercise in pure speculation or even hallucination, as Giordano Bruno's life revealed.

Practical observation commonly consists of collecting a few facts and loading them with guesses.

What were you doing out here?" He chuckled. "Looking for aliens. What else?

I read in one of the scandal sheets that there are UFO aliens living right now down deep in the Antarctic. I believe those things.

I like to think readers appreciate a well-drawn near-future as well as a well-drawn far-future.

There's always been a quality to being a science-fiction reader. Usually, you're the only one in your class, or there are only one or two in your whole town. You're always the guy who reads that strange stuff.

I never said I wanted to move to Real Madrid. If I did, I would have said so publicly.

I can bring Neymar to Real Madrid.

You mustn't take what I say as gospel because no one can second-guess the future.

Well, my whole thing with gossip is I couldn't care less if it's true.

I'm not going to run for Senate and I'm not going to run for Governor. I'd like to put those rumors to rest.

I can confirm for you I'm not running for governor of Connecticut in the future.

I guess rumors are more exciting than the truth.

When it came to foods it was a guessing game.

I want to keep people guessing.

I love watching people, guessing what they are going to do next. I'm no Derren Brown, but I love that people stuff. Maybe that's why I'm an actor.

I like to keep people guessing.