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Quotes About Speculation

I define science fiction as the art of the possible. Fantasy is the art of the impossible.
~ Ray Bradbury
The market is a very emotional place that appeals to fear and greed.
~ Walter Schloss
I think prices have been moving more on speculation than reality. But this is a market that has been driven by fear for two or three years.
~ James Williams
Healthy science needs a combination of humility and hope: humility to accept the extent of our ignorance and hope that new discoveries will illuminate the current darkness. However, when we are at the edge of knowledge and data is not forthcoming, well-grounded speculation is the only strategy at our disposal. Without imagination science stagnates.
~ Marcelo Gleiser
If. The smallest word, which raises the biggest questions.
~ Marcus Sedgwick
Time destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
Science fiction, to me, has not only things that wouldn't happen, but other planets.
~ Margaret Atwood
we may indeed assume, with a high degree of probability, that Jane Austen went commando.
~ Unknown
Beowulf is usually seen as a masculine text, but I think that's somewhat unfair. The poem, while (with one exception) not structured around the actions of women, does contain extensive portrayals of motherhood and peace-weaving marital compromise, female warriors, and speculation on what it means to lose a son.
~ Unknown
The alluring, long-shot chance of a huge gain is the grease that lubricates the machine of innovation.
~ Unknown
Finance is the art of passing currency from hand to hand until it finally disappears
~ Unknown
my major form of exercise is jumping to conclusions.
~ J. A. Jance
I have noticed before that there is a category of acquaintanceship that is not friendship or business or romance, but speculation, fascination.
~ Jane Smiley
Choosing individual stocks without any idea of what you're looking for is like running through a dynamite factory with a burning match. You may live, but you're still an idiot.
~ Joel Greenblatt
Don't you just LOVE rumors, they tell you so many awesome things you didn't even know about yourself!
~ Unknown
Science fiction encourages us to explore... all the futures, good and bad, that the human mind can envision.
~ Marion Zimmer Bradley
The hard, cold reality of trading is that every trade has an uncertain outcome.
~ Unknown
effect, proponents of this theory believe we are somebody's biology experiment.
~ Unknown
October is one of the peculiarly dangerous months to speculate in stocks. Others are July, January, April, September, November, May, March, June, December, August and February.
~ Mark Twain
What's in that pipe that he's smoking?
~ Arlo Guthrie
Whole new theories of money were growing here like mushrooms: in the dark and based on bullshit.
~ Terry Pratchett, Making Money
I wonder if vampire's eyebrows can grow back.
~ Robert Pattinson
being funny is actually all about thinking "what if ?" in a creative way.
~ Unknown
How do you know?""Well, I don't, I'm making this up, but I bet I'm right.
~ Robyn Carr