Quotes About Speculation

Is it too imaginative to say that if the Schlieffen Plan had worked, Adolf Hitler might have remained a private in the List Regiment and Joseph Stalin a Georgian peasant?

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

We Chroniclers do well to be afraid when we approach those parts of our histories (our natures) that deal with evil, the depraved, the benighted. Describing, we become. We even - and I've see it and have shuddered - summon. The most innocent of poets can write of ugliness and forces he has done no more than speculate about - and bring them into his life. I tell you, I've seen it, watched it...

I suppose that was just something you ate; or are you bloody well pregnant as well?

Anyway, maybe it's only somebody that just died and left you twenty million dollars. Maybe it isn't some other woman at all.

Ford looked at him severely. And no sneaky knocking down Mr Dent's house whilst he's away, alright? he said. The mere thought, growled Mr Prosser, hadn't even begun to speculate, he continued, settling himself back, about the merest possibility of crossing my mind.

Trin Tragula—for that was his name—was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher or, as his wife would have it, an idiot." Excerpt From: Adams, Douglas. "The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy." Random House Publishing Group, 2010-09-29. iBooks. This material may be protected by copyright.

This was the very limit beyond which none of them had ever speculated, or even known that there was any speculation to be done.

The Book: Curiously the only thing that went through the mind of the bowl of petunias, as it fell, was, 'Oh no, not again.' Many people have speculated that if we knew exactly *why* the bowl of petunias had thought that we would know a lot more about the nature of the universe than we do now.

They would appear," said Ford doubtfully, "to have turned into a bowl of petunias and a very surprised-looking whale

Do you think they came today?' he said. 'I do. There's mud on the floor, cigarettes and whisky on the table, fish on a plate for you and a memory of them in my mind. Hardly conclusive evidence I know, but then all evidence is circumstantial.

Even supposing this was the home of some ancient civilization now gone to dust, even supposing a number of exceedingly unlikely things, there was no way that vast treasures of wealth were going to be stored there in any form that would still have meaning now. He shrugged. "I think it's just a dead planet," he said.

Curiously enough, the only thing that went through the mind of the bowl of petunias as it fell was, Oh no, not again. Many people have speculated that if we knew exactly why the bowl of petunias had thought that we would know a lot more about the nature of the universe than we do now.

Hay una teoría que afirma que si alguien descubriera lo que es exactamente el universo y el porqué de su existencia, desaparecería al instante y sería sustituido por algo aún más extraño e inexplicable. Hay otra teoría que afirma que eso ya ha ocurrido

You're right, a spleen is a strange thing-we technically don't need one, but maybe spleens are kept in our bodies in case we mutate or evolve, and if we grow wings or tentacles we need to have the spleen in place in order for them to work.

And what was he like? Did he have three heads?" "If he did, two must have been successfully removed in infancy.

Well, of course, it was not any of my business but you get very queer glimpses of life sometimes, and you can't help speculating about them.

rumours, of course, as there always were

It's subjunctive history. You know, the subjunctive? The mood used when something may or may not have happened. When it is imagined.

Irrational exuberance

We had a bubble in housing.

the next time you need a piece of apparently obscure information, try asking a science fiction writer. You might be surprised.

I don't think the Rattlers are coming back," I said, remembering the bar in the Hall of History. The Rattlers had come and gone during the Fourth Occupation, about nine million years ago, and nothing had been heard of them since.

This is unproven technology, and if you don't know what you're doing, you shouldn't interact with tokens - from an investor and security perspective.