Quotes About Speculation

I'm not sure Mark McGwire was a Hall of Famer to begin with.

I really strived to give equal weight to the two halves of my genre's name: science and fiction.

Lirael almost apologized, but she held it back. She did feel sorry for Nick. It wasn't his fault he had been chosen by an ancient spirit of evil to be its avatar. She even felt sort of maternal to him. He needed to be tucked in bed and fed willow-bark tea. That thought led to the idle speculation of what he might look like if he were well. He could be quite handsome, Lirael thought, and then instantly banished the notion. He might be an unwitting enemy, but he was still an enemy.

It must have been a snapper

the true subject of science fiction is death, not life. It will all end. The totality of it.

During the dot-com bubble, most people did not use a persuasive theory to gauge whether stock prices were too high, too low, or just right. Instead, as they watched stock prices go up, they invented explanations to rationalize what was happening. They talked about Moore's Law, smart kids, and Alan Greenspan. Data without theory.

truly my opinion is, that all our opinions are alike vain and uncertain. what we approve today, we condemn tomorrow. we keep a stir about knowledge, and spend our lives in the pursuit of it, when, alas! we know nothing all the while: nor do i think it possible for us to ever know anything in this life. our faculties are too narrow and too few. nature certainly never intended us for speculation.

If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion

Ignorance gives one a large range of probabilities.

Everybody liked better to conjecture how the thing was, than simply to know it; for conjecture soon became more confident than knowledge, and had a more liberal allowance for the incompatible.

It's ill guessing what the bats are flying after.

There is a lot of speculation about what women are attracted to, and there are a lot of misconceptions.

Wonder if there is life on another planet? Let's suppose there is. Suppose further, that only one star in a trillion has a planet that could support life. If that were the case, then there would be at least 100 million planets that harbored life.

Everyone's waiting for the seventh book, and looking at each other saying, 'Oh, I wonder will I be in the running?

We have to wonder, if there is a multiverse, in some other patch of that multiverse are there creatures?

As the financial experts all over the world use machines to unwind Gordian knots of financial arrangements so complex that only machines can make - 'derive' - and trade them, we have to wonder: Are we living in a bad sci-fi movie? Is the Matrix made of credit default swaps?

I've always been one of those people who wondered 'What if...'

Heredity is what sets the parents of a teenager wondering about each other.

The world is preoccupied with dissecting, analyzing and prognosticating on the blockchain's future; technologists, entrepreneurs, and enterprises are wondering if it is to be considered vitamin or poison.

When I write, I tend to tap into this human wondering vibe that could come off negative, but it's really not.

Speculation is only a word covering the making of money out of the manipulation of prices, instead of supplying goods and services.

We reward people for making money off money, and moving money around and dividing up mortgages a thousand times over, selling it to China... and it becomes this shell game.

Our brains are continuing to evolve, and perhaps a few tens of thousands of years from now, our descendants will walk around with five pound brains, allowing them insights that we can't imagine.

I am confident that life once thrived on Mars and may well still exist there today.