Quotes About Speculation

Matters of immense import may depend on such issues, but we can never do more than guess the outcomes of the roads we do not take.

We only have to look at ourselves to see how intelligent life might develop into something we wouldn't want to meet

The present evidence therefore suggests that the universe will probably expand forever, but all we can really be sure of is that even if the universe is going to recollapse, it won't do so for at least another ten thousand million years, since it has already been expanding for at least that long. This should not unduly worry us: by that time, unless we have colonized beyond the solar system, mankind will long since have died out, extinguished along with our sun!

If time travel were possible we'd be inundated with tourist from the future.

Thus the possibility of time travel remains open.

Thus the possibility of time travel remains open. But I'm not going to bet on it. My opponent might have the unfair advantage of knowing the future.

There is a history of the universe in which England win the World Cup again, though maybe the probability is low.

we can really be sure of is that even if the universe is going to recollapse, it won't do so for at least another ten thousand million years, since it has already been expanding for at least that long. This should not unduly worry us: by that time, unless we have colonized beyond the Solar System, mankind will long since have died out, extinguished along with our sun!

What was he thinking? The Internet did not predict the future; only the pink Kindle did that.

If the if isn't an if, what if is an if that if has to be replaced by an if that if shall never if that the place of if.

Of course, any scenario involving quantum mechanics in the origin of life three billion years ago remains highly speculative. But, as we have discussed, even classical explanations of life's origin are beset with problems: it isn't easy to make life from scratch!

I looked at my boyfriend and wondered if he was actually an alien.

I got the feeling there was going to be a whole lot more conversation once I was out of the room.

What could it be? Not a date, surely—the boy's got eyes.

many atheistic scientists insist there is never any reason to speculate beyond the universe of matter and energy, because there is nothing beyond that. They insist that the universe is all that is. The problem is that they cannot by any means prove this scientifically, so for them to make this claim at all is itself "unscientific." Ironically, in doing so, such scientists are themselves reaching beyond the world of science.

Yes, MVPs sometimes are perceived as low-quality by customers. If so, we should use this as an opportunity to learn what attributes customers care about. This is infinitely better than mere speculation or whiteboard strategizing, because it provides a solid empirical foundation on which to build future products.

Collectibles have little intrinsic value and are thus subject to the whims and speculations of buyers and sellers.

they come up with that one? The

I have never met a vampire personally, but I don't know what might happen tomorrow.

Zach Palmer, who was half human and half—we weren't really sure what, including the possibility that the other half might be human as well.

How does anyone ever know anything—the past is a fog that breathes out ghost after ghost, the present a freeway thunder run at 90 mph, which makes the future the ultimate black hole of futile speculation.

I'll project myself into several futures simultaneously.

They also reminded me of a story Dallas Fed president Richard Fisher included in one of his speeches about the early nineteenth-century French diplomat Talleyrand and his archrival, Prince Metternich of Austria. When Talleyrand died, Metternich was reported to have said, "I wonder what he meant by that?" It seemed that no matter what I said or how plainly I said it, the markets tried to divine some hidden meaning.

but with limited data their answers involved a lot of guesswork.