Quotes About Speculation

Oh, I can think of many reasons. Perhaps it's a signal, so that any strange ship entering our universe will know where to look for life. Perhaps it marks the centre of galactic administration. Or perhaps—and somehow I feel that this is the real explanation—it's simply the greatest of all works of art. But it's foolish to speculate now. In a few hours we shall know the truth.

You," said Stormgren, "have been reading too much science-fiction.

Adamski's Disease.

Hogyan háborgathat bárki is egy két kilométer hosszú, fekete hasábot? És vajon milyen formában közölné a rosszallását?

chronology protection conjecture?

we are suffering from a plethora of surmise, conjecture, and hypothesis.

Ah! my dear Watson, there we come into those realms of conjecture, where the most logical mind may be at fault. Each may form his own hypothesis upon the present evidence, and yours is as likely to be correct as mine.

All around me the world lies like an immense hypothesis that I no longer verify.

É arriscado especular antes de ter dados na mão...inconscientemente começa-se a torcer os factos para os acomodar às teorias, em vez de fazer as teorias coincidirem com os factos.

Honestly, do these people have nothing better to do than engage in stupid mindless speculation about people they don't know?

Are there Martians out there? I haven't got a clue. Is there life out there? I have no idea.

I don't talk about my personal life so they [the media] had to make one up for me.

The imagination of a eunuch dwells more and longer upon the material of love than that of man or woman ... supplying, so far as he can, by speculation, the place of pleasures he can no longer enjoy.

When a person speculates about my identity, it reveals something about their own background and preferences. If the canvas is blank; the only thing people can see on its surface is themselves.

Maybe I'm crazy," she said, "but I wonder if this is where the thing that ate us gets its water?" "Could be. I'm not diving in to find out.

I have likewise heard it stated, that one boy fell a-kicking the coffin on his way to the grave, who is still living and lifelike, and that a girl, as the doctors were cutting her up, threw herself off the table. I cannot vouch for the truth of these singular and cruel incidents, although I heard them related as facts; but with regard to my own case there can be no dispute.

In time the earth will be inhabited by almost god-like beings who shall analyze and discuss the remnants of humanity as we now discuss the chimpanzee.

The only thing that scares me more than space aliens is the idea that there aren't any space aliens. We can't be the best that creation has to offer. I pray we're not all there is. If so, we're in big trouble.

Sentía que buscaba en una cueva oscura que era su estómago y daba consigo mismo disminuido, asustado, sin pasado o futuro. Eso sentía. Moriré primero que Mick Jagger, especuló.

If the two women feared that the coming of this date [their retirement] might give some clue to their ages, it was not an occasion for embarrassment because nobody else had been in the least interested, both of them having long ago reached ages beyond any kind of speculation.

Ageing, slightly mad and on the threshold of retirement, it was an uneasy combination and it was no wonder that people shied away from her or made only the most perfunctory remarks. It was difficult to imagine what her retirement would be like—impossibe and rather gruesome to speculate on it.

That Eve was Adam's second wife was a common Rabbinic speculation; certain of the commentators on Genesis having adopted this view to account for the double account of the creation of woman in the sacred text--first in Genesis i. 27, and secondly in Genesis ii. 18; and they say that Adam's first wife was named Lilith, but she was expelled from Eden, and after her expulsion Eve was created.

Scriptural doctrine contains not abstruse speculation or philosophic reasoning, but very simple matters able to be understood by the most sluggish mind.

In 2007, in the early 2007, everybody saw the housing market was falling, and at any given moment a lot of people thought it was going to fall more, and a lot of people thought it was going to rebound. You just didn't know.