Quotes About Speculation

There is no data on the future.

The past is the best way to suppose what may come.

If you laid every economist in the country end to end you would still not reach a conclusion.

It would be a very big book that contained all the maybes uttered in a day.

What is today a matter of academic speculation begins tomorrow to move armies and pull down empires.

Dead people are infinities of maybes.

Goddamn Summerset. I've told him to leave my car when I park it. I think he did. Peabody flipped on her sunshades, pointed. It's blocking the drive, see? Oh, yeah. Eve cleared her throat. The car was just as she'd left it, and fluttering in the mild breeze were a few torn articles of clothing. Don't ask, she muttered and started to hoof it down the drive. I wasn't going to. Peabody's voice was smooth as silk, Speculation's more interesting.

I sometimes wonder . . ." She shrugged. "I mean, what if everyone's lied about death? What if there is no Fade, but instead you're just stuck in your body forever, conscious but unable to move?" Great. She'd wanted to try to lighten the mood. Nice. Try. "Well, bodies do . . ." He cleared his throat. "You know, rot.

When I see a picture like the 1861 cotton market, I ask myself, "What caused that? Why did that happen?" Then I try to figure it out. From that, you learn an enormous amount. In

Stuff about me dating Kim Kardashian - I have no idea where that came from and all these other rumors. I don't think I'm that type.

The ultimate relationship between justice and law will be an eternal subject for speculation and analysis. But it may be said that in a democratic society, law is the form which free men give to justice.

Now, what space ultimately is - I should confess, I think most physicists believe - we don't yet know.

Unanswered questions make my head itch.

The outlook for the economy, as always, is highly uncertain.

I think that only daring speculation can lead us further and not accumulation of facts.

The prevailing wisdom is that markets are always right. I take the opposite position. I assume that markets are always wrong.

An economist is a man that can tell you...what can happen under any given condition, and his guess is liable to be as good as anybody else's too.

I like rumors. I find out so much about me that I didn't even know!

An interesting theory. But she wasn't in Yorkshire.

Science fiction is about using speculative scenarios as a lens to examine the human condition.

There were no other conspicuous orifices; perhaps their mouth was their anus too. Those sorts of questions would have to wait.

Every few seconds it changes - up an eighth, down an eighth - it's like playing a slot machine. I lose $20 million, I gain $20 million.

I loved literary science fiction. In fact, as a kid, when I was reading science fiction, I thought 'I can't wait for the future when the special effects are good' to represent what was in these books by Arthur C. Clarke, Alfred Bester, Philip K. Dick, J.G. Ballard, Jack Vance.

Some pundits have proposed that the aliens have come here to breed with us. Apparently, too much bike riding or something similar has rendered them incapable of reproducing within their own species. But do extraterrestrial infants toddle through your neighborhood?