“My speculation is that the U.S. does not want to establish the principle that it has to defer to some higher authority before carrying out the use of violence.” WantDoeUsePrinciplesViolenceHigherAuthoritySpeculation Author:Noam Chomsky
“I don't expect that the scientific community now embraces and kisses me 'Oh wonderful, great you did!' we have to live with critics, this is normal. Chariots of the Gods was full of speculation, I had 238 question marks. Nobody read the question mark. They always said: Mr. Von Daniken is saying... I did not say, I asked the questions, would that be a posibility? In Chariots of the Gods, I made clear difference between a speculations and facts.” MadeSaidFactsCommunityDifferencesClearWonderfulKissingNormalMarkEmbraceCriticsSpeculationKiss MeChariotsQuestion Mark Author:Erich von Däniken
“The biggest journalistic game-changer of our time has been the rise of social media and the overgrowth of faux news sources - league- and team-sponsored blogs, player tweets, fanboy sites, rumor mills - churning bits of information and speculation into a clattering fog storm. Who will cut through the drivel and whim-wham to tell us what's really going on?” Has BeensGamesSocialBitsCuttingPlayerTeamMediaInformationSourceNewsSocial MediaStormLeagueOur TimeSiteFogSpeculationRumorBlogsTweetWhimMillsJournalisticFauxChurningDrivelGame Changers Author:Robert Lipsyte
“In these respects we differ from the Christian world, for our religion will not clash with or contradict the facts of science in any particular... whether the Lord found the earth empty and void, whether he made it out of nothing or out of the rude elements; or whether he made it in six days or in as many millions of years, is and will remain a matter of speculation in the minds of men unless he give revelation on the subject. If we understood the process of creation there would be no mystery about it, it would be all reasonable and plain, for there is no mystery except to the ignorant.” IfsMenWorldGivingYearsMindMadeMatterFactsWould BeEarthChristianFoundProcessLordMillionsMysterySubjectsCreationParticularElementsSixUnderstoodEmptyIgnorantMade ItRevelationsReasonableVoidRudeSpeculationClash Author:Brigham Young
“Whether this vast homogeneous expanse of isotropic matter is fitted not only to be a medium of physical interaction between distant bodies, and to fulfil other physical functions of which perhaps we have as yet no conception, but also to constitute the material organism of beings exercising functions of life and mind as high or higher than ours are at present is a question far transcending the limits of physical speculation.” MindMatterBodyMaterialsHigherExerciseLimitsFunctionMediumsConceptionInteractionOrganismsSpeculationTranscendingExpanseHomogeneous Book:Scientific Papers Source: Scientific Papers
“There is no hope for any speculation that does not look absurd at first glance.” FirstsLooksDoeAbsurdGlancesSpeculationNo Hope Author:Niels Bohr
“Some go to church to take a walk; some go there to laugh and talk. Some go there to meet a friend; some go there their time to spend. Some go there to meet a lover; some go there a fault to cover. Some go there for speculation; some go there for observation. Some go there to doze and nod; the wise go there to worship God.” ChurchWalksLaughingWiseLoversWorshipFaultsObservationSpeculationWorship God Author:Charles Spurgeon
“To design an easy-to-use interface, pay attention to what users do, not what they say. Self-reported claims are unreliable, as are user speculations about future behavior.” SelfUseEasyPayAttentionDesignBehaviorClaimsPay AttentionUsersSpeculationUnreliableInterfaces Author:Jakob Nielsen
“A handy short definition of almost all science fiction might read: realistic speculation about possible future events, based solidly on adequate knowledge of the real world, past and present, and on a thorough understanding of the nature and significance of the scientific method.” WorldRealMightPastUnderstandingFictionEventsMethodScience FictionDefinitionsSignificanceRealisticReal WorldSpeculationAdequateThoroughScientific MethodPast And PresentHandyFuture EventsThorough UnderstandingAdequate Knowledge Author:Robert A. Heinlein
“If you're Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston, and your marriage is breaking up - that's an awful thing. But to see that speculation in people, it's gotta sting a little bit.” PeopleIfsLittlesBitsLittle BitAwfulSpeculationBradJennifer Author:Dave Chappelle
“After months of speculation, the sitcom star Ellen DeGeneres admitted that yes, she's gay. Inspired by her courage, today, diet-guru Richard Simmons admitted that he is really, really, really, really gay.” InspirationTodayStarsMonthsGayInspiredDietsSpeculationGuruSitcomReally Gay Author:Norm MacDonald
“In a sense, photographs are highly literary, and the photographer, like the writer, has to be both a master of craft and a visionary. Patient accumulation of facts and then speculation about their meaning is the nature of authorship in both mediums.” FactsMastersPatientPhotographerPhotographMediumsCraftsSpeculationAccumulationVisionariesAuthorship Author:Peter C Bunnell
“For any speculation which does not at first glance look crazy, there is no hope.” FirstsLooksDoeCrazyGlancesSpeculationNo Hope Author:Freeman Dyson
“There is nothing new in Wall Street. There can't be because speculation is as old as the hills. Whatever happens in the stock market today has happened before and will happen again.” HappensTodayHappenedStreetsWallHillsSpeculationWhatever HappensNothing New Author:Jesse Lauriston Livermore
“Speculation is a hard and trying business, and a speculator must be on the job all the time or he'll soon have no job to be on.” TryingHardJobsSpeculationSpeculators Author:Jesse Lauriston Livermore
“Wall Street is broken for sure because it succumbed to greed and corruption and pure speculation with no values.” ValuesStreetsBrokenWallPureGreedCorruptionSpeculation Author:Deepak Chopra
“It was while teaching philosophy that I saw how easily one can say ... what one wants to say. ... In fact, I became particularly aware if the dangers of speculation ... It's so much easier than digging out the facts. You sit in your office and build a system. But with my training in biology, I felt this kind of undertaking precarious.” IfsWantKindPhilosophyFactsFeltSawsTeachingDangerEasierOfficeTrainingBiologySpeculationDiggingUndertakingsPrecarious Author:Jean Piaget
“Personally I don't think day traders are speculating, because traditional speculation requires some market knowledge. They are, instead, gambling, which doesn't.” ThinkingTraditionalGamblingSpeculationTraders Author:Arthur Levitt Jr
“Trading is a small part of the work of the stock exchanges. They are really to do with financial speculation, and they speculate on the value of the yen, the dollar, the pound, the franc, or the euro, at any given time. Billions are lost and billions are made by this speculation, and that's what the stock exchanges are about. They are for greedy minds.” MindMadeValuesLostGivenDollarsFinancialBillionsPoundsGreedyTradingSpeculationEuroSmall PartsStock Exchange Author:Benjamin Creme
“Speculation is a fool's game, but I've seen many political projections that look like the Taliban could hold most of the country, and possibly Kabul, within perhaps a short time.” LooksCountryPoliticalGamesFoolSpeculationProjectionTalibanShort TimeKabul Author:Eliza Griswold
“What passes for news is just morbid speculation or cartoonish screaming, followed by diaper commercials.” NewsSpeculationMorbidDiapers Author:Karen Russell
“There's a whole slew of wonderful speculation of flying in a fanciful way. Gulliver is one of the central examples; Swift has the hum of Arabian Nights in his ear with Gulliver's Travels. The difference is in scale - Gulliver as a kind of Sinbad kind of figure, the way he is picked up and carried. Just to finish up with Scheherazade, I do think that The Arabian Nights could be considered as a great book on women's position in the world.” ThinkingWorldWayKindBookWholeNightDifferencesWonderfulFiguresExamplePositionEarsFlyingScalesSpeculationGreat BookArabianGulliverArabian NightsGulliver's Travels Author:Marina Warner
“I do believe that we should substantially lower student debt in this country, which is crushing millions of people. We pay for it, in my view, by a tax on Wall Street speculation. The middle class bailed out Wall Street in their time of need. Now, it is Wall Street's time to help the middle class.” PeopleNeedsShouldBelieveCountryHelpingViewsPayClassMillionsStreetsMiddleStudentsWallTaxesDebtCrushMiddle ClassSpeculationTime Of Need Author:Bernie Sanders
“I can tell that I shaped the book very deliberately, after a great deal of thought, and that I insisted this piece function as a prologue, but I find the word "intention," confusing ("trust the art," as D.H. Lawrence said, "not the artist"). These speculations are perhaps better responded to by text and reader, rather than author.” ArtSaidI CanBookArtistDealsPiecesReaderFunctionIntentionConfusingSpeculationPrologue Author:Laura Mullen
“The strongest arguments prove nothing so long as the conclusions are not verified by experience. Experimental science is the queen of sciences and the goal of all speculation.” LongScienceGoalProveArgumentExperienceConclusionQueensStrongestSpeculationExperimental Science Author:Roger Bacon
“We cannot have a free market since it does not really set us free. It's free for interest, speculation and consumerism to create false needs.” NeedsDoeInterestConsumerismSpeculationFree Market Author:Tariq Ramadan
“There you see how absurd the reactions of the so-called markets are. For a long time, Italy was run by one of the most unprofessional politicians anywhere. But there wasn't much pressure in terms of speculation. Now, in Mario Monti, Italy has the kind of leader you usually only get in Hollywood movies, a distinguished professor who won't even accept a cook at his residence, the Palazzo Chigi. Instead Monti's wife cooks their pasta herself - and this is the man the markets don't trust.” MenKindLongRunningTermLeaderAcceptingWifeHe ManPoliticianLong TimeHollywoodPressureReactionsAbsurdCooksProfessorsSpeculationDistinguishedDon't TrustPastaResidenceHollywood MoviesMario Author:Martin Schulz
“High prices can be the result of speculation, and maybe plunging prices can be attributed to the end of speculation, but low prices over time aren't caused by speculation. That's oversupply, mainly by Saudi Arabia flooding the market with low-priced oil to discourage rival oil producers, whether it's Russian oil or American fracking.” EndsResultsLowsOilProducersSpeculationRivalsDiscouragingArabiaSaudi ArabiaSaudisFloodingHigh PricesFracking Author:Michael Hudson
“I don't think that governments should permit speculation in raw materials, because they're what the economy basically needs.” ThinkingNeedsShouldGovernmentEconomyMaterialsPermitSpeculationRaw Materials Author:Michael Hudson
“The effect of metals speculation was to push up the prices that China had to pay to countries like Australia. This squeezed China. Once the speculative demand ended, all of a sudden the added production facilities that had been brought into production by the high prices went out of production again, and there was a glut.” CountryPayEffectsDemandProductionsChinaAustraliaMetalsSpeculationFacilityHigh PricesPush Ups Author:Michael Hudson
“I have a very great respect for Americans, and having been a correspondent in this country, and I believe that Americans are people who respond much better to facts and truthful, genuine speculation, than they do to purely, kind of phoney, adulation.” PeopleBelieveKindCountryFactsI BelieveGenuineTruthfulSpeculationGreat RespectAdulation Author:Malcolm Muggeridge
“I did it [photojournalism] as something that was really rewarding to do, given the opportunity to express myself about something I cared about, and also to learn a lot by watching filmmakers I admired. In a sense, it was my film school. After doing it for a few years, I decided that the time had come to get it together and do some work of my own. So I stopped doing that and wrote some screenplays on speculation, because even though I wanted to direct, to direct you need a lot of money.” NeedsYearsWantedSchoolTogetherFilmOpportunityGivenMy OwnDirectDecidedFilmmakerLots Of MoneySpeculationScreenplaysFilm SchoolPhotojournalismGet It Together Author:Curtis Hanson
“I stopped doing that [photojournalism] and wrote some screenplays on speculation, because even though I wanted to direct, to direct you need a lot of money. Even for a cheap movie, you need film stock and equipment and actors.” NeedsWantedFilmActorsDirectLots Of MoneyEquipmentSpeculationScreenplaysPhotojournalism Author:Curtis Hanson
“Many of the concepts we once thought belonged to speculation or science fiction are now part of our understood reality.” RealityFictionUnderstoodConceptsScience FictionSpeculation Author:Michael Helm
“After campaign financial reports show more money spent than raised in the month of September. Report adds to growing speculation that Donald Trump is not in some very deep psychological sense, actually running to be President of the United States, so much as he`s running to build up a fan base for Donald Trump.” StatesShowsRunningPresidentUnitedUnited StatesGrowingFansMonthsTrumpAddRaisedFinancialCampaignsPsychologicalReportsMore MoneySeptemberSpeculationVery Deep Author:Chris Hayes
“Let me just say that anything that I say about what's going on at Justice is pure speculation. Obviously, you know, I'm just going based on my experience as the attorney general, but, yeah, surprised because typically you don't talk about investigations. And it kind of surprised me that that letter went out, and I suppose that the reason for it is because we're in the middle of a presidential campaign. But nonetheless, I think it would be contrary to typical protocol.” ThinkingKnowsKindReasonWould BeJusticeMiddlePureLettersLet MeYeahContraryCampaignsPresidentialInvestigationTypicalSpeculationAttorneyProtocolPresidential Campaign Author:Alberto Gonzales
“As soon as anybody does one of my songs, I rejoice. This particular case of all these great singers doing my work - the implications are very rich and the temptation to think of the outcome of these masses of the mainstream injecting my work into the marketplace, it's a very sweet speculation.” ThinkingDoeSongCasesRichParticularSweetMassSingersTemptationOutcomesRejoiceMainstreamSpeculationMarketplaceImplicationsVery Sweet Author:Leonard Cohen
“I feel that I've had enough theoretical speculation to last me a lifetime.” FeelsEnoughLastsLifetimeSpeculationTheoreticalHad Enough Author:Susan Sontag
“It was the Democratic Party, it was the Presidential election. We elected a president [Barack Obama]; we didn't elect a king. So all the speculation in the next three months - people camped out at his house, and wondering who's coming to visit, who's going to be the Secretary of State - that all struck me as inane and stupid.” PeopleStatesThreeNextHousePresidentPartyWonderStupidMonthsKingsElectionDemocraticBarackPresidentialSecretarySpeculationDemocratic PartyPresident Barack ObamaThree MonthsPresidential Election Author:Bill Ayers
“It's complementary. It's fairly clear where the boundaries are. When I start telling you the contents of his head, I am making it up. But I try to make it up based on what is on the record. So even my wildest speculations [on Thomas Cromwell] will have a root somewhere.” TryingClearRecordsRootsBoundariesSpeculationComplementaryCromwell Author:Hilary Mantel
“When you look at the basis for the immortality of the soul, you have these foundationless speculations and really, no intelligent reason for believing that there's life after death.” BelieveLooksSoulReasonBasesIntelligentImmortalitySpeculationAfter DeathLife After Death Author:Vincent Bugliosi
“There were studies that asked people in different cultures to draw pictures of their enemies, and the pictures all looked remarkably the same. They always had exaggerated canine teeth and a certain sort of expression. That led to speculation about whether at an earlier stage in the human experience we were hunted by some sort of carnivore.” PeopleHumansDifferentCertainCultureEnemyStudyStageExpressionDrawsTeethSpeculationHuman ExperienceExaggeratedDifferent CulturesCanineHuntedCarnivores Author:Jaron Lanier
“In Cuba, we have a democracy that represents the humble, the dispossessed, those who make up the vast majority of the population. It is for those who carry the main weight of society's load in matters of the production of goods and services. These are not the ones that live from financial speculation.” MatterDemocracyWeightMajorityFinancialPopulationProductionsHumbleGoodsLoadSpeculationCubaGoods And Services Author:Alejandro Castro Espin
“There are times when a market such as housing, transportation or the stock or mortgage market keep rising and people with capital want to join in this growth. Soon the markets become overheated, partly because of the abundance of investment money and speculation. This is when the government should raise interest rates and increase the cost of borrowed money. Governments are shy about doing this because it could cause the very recession. Yet this is the best time to do this so that the inevitable recession never reaches the magnitude of the recent Great Recession.” PeopleWantShouldGovernmentCausesGrowthInterestCostIncreaseRaisesInvestmentRateInevitableRisingAbundanceShySpeculationHousingMortgageTransportationBorrowedMagnitudeRecessionsBest TimesInterest RateBorrowed MoneyGreat Recession Author:Philip Kotler
“As a fiction writer you train yourself to think about situations subjectively. I don't really care for narratives that are just A, B, C, D, and then E. I like the aura that fiction has, how it can conjure up dream imagery. It's a sort of emotional speculation that you can shape and work with.” ThinkingDreamCareFictionSituationEmotionalShapesTrainNarrativeSpeculationImageryFiction WritersAuras Author:Oscar Hijuelos
“If you're doing a good job as author, then you get the reader to engage in whatever speculation might be called for. And it's much more meaningful for the reader, if he or she comes up with the questions.” MeaningfulGood JobSpeculation Author:Russell Freedman
“We have no proper understanding of the relationship between conscious thought and conscious sensation. The various forms of thought and sensation are underpinned by very different neural mechanisms; so how can the neural correlate of their conscious natures be the same? I don't think we are yet in a position to make such speculations. To make progress, we have to have a good conception of the phenomenology of consciousness, among other things.” ThinkingDifferentUnderstandingConsciousnessProgressConsciousVariousSpeculation Author:Tim Crane
“Problems come and go over time, and to understand why is a difficult historical task. If one wanted to find the origin of a problem, historical research and close attention to texts is what is needed, not unconstrained speculation about the 'pictures' that philosophers must be in the grip of.” ProblemDifficultAttentionHistoricalPhilosopherSpeculation Author:Tim Crane
“We're obviously in speculation territory here, because we don't know what the Trump administration is going to do.” Speculation Author:Judy Woodruff
“I think moral philosophy is speculation on how we ought to live together done by people who have very little clue how people work. So I think most moral philosophy is disconnected from the species that we happen to be. In fact, they like it that way. Many moral philosophers insist that morality grows out of our rationality, that it applies to any rational being anywhere in the universe, and that it is not based on contingent or coincidental facts about our evolution.” PeopleThinkingDonePhilosophyTogetherUniverseMoralEvolutionMoralityPhilosopherRationalRationalityClueSpeculationMoral Philosophy Author:Jonathan Haidt