Quotes About Speculation

The ways of reading Revelation that spend time speculating about the questions When will all this happen? and Who is the antichrist? fail the church in discipleship. Instead of a discipleship that teaches us to discern Babylon among us and shows us how to live in Babylon as dissidents instead of conformists, these speculative questions teach Christians how to wait for the escape from Babylon.

A hundred quintillion googols!

Most of the time I spend when I get up in the morning is trying to figure out what is going to happen.

I have this eerie feeling that by the time I'm 33, reality will not exist in the same plane as it did before. It's cool but also a little creepy.

I don't know if Jerry Lawler got here in a plane, or a time machine.

I'd be doing Oscar predictions months ahead of time, and not only for the Oscars, for the Grammys. This is just what excited me as a kid.

Will a day come when our cars have carbon-fiber tubs, 18,000-rpm V-10 engines, and ground-effects tunnels? Perhaps, about the same time we have condos on the moon.

We've suffered a "Ponzification" of the economy in recent years, as bubbles have built up and then burst, and each time we act as though it's the first time.

We live in a science fiction universe. We have done for a long time.

Time puts an end to speculation in opinions, and confirms the laws of nature.

October: This is one of the peculiarly dangerous months to speculate in stocks. The others are July, January, September, April, November, May, March, June, December, August and February.

It may have happened, it may not have happened but it could have happened.

There is something fascinating about science.  One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.

No doubt speculation will continue for a long time over what force alters and orders the dimensions of that place.

Let me indicate a possible line of thought. It is, I admit, mere imagination; but how often is imagination the mother of truth?

There were rumours and counter­rumours. There were rumours that might have been true, and truths that ought to have been just rumours.

But he agreed that it could not be ruled out.

The likelihood of my initial hunch being right was too low

At any rate it seems unlikely that there is any truth in the rumour as I have just this moment invented it.

You can dig through public records and other documents to find out if a certain person had an Aryan grandmother, but there's no way to tell if that grandmother's Eocene ancestor was a sinanthropus or a pithecanthropus.

Science fiction involves the art of putting hypothetical premises into the very complicated stream of sociopsychological occurrences.

Stephen Baxter

Still, New York in the 1880's had become a city of mad, entrepreneurial schemes, many of which didn't work. Into this mood of hectic speculation and crazy chance-taking, Mr. Clark's scheme fitted perfectly. It was an era of folly. Building the Dakota

And what my brother's face will look like on a football card, or what it will look like if it is never on a football card.