Quotes about Speculation

I'm not a Mensa member. I have no idea where that rumor came from. I never have been, and I doubt if I ever will be.

Buy an annuity cheap, and make your life interesting to yourself and everybody else that watches the speculation.

She seemed to exist in a kind of allegory, and having these shapes about her, claimed my interest so strongly, that (as I have already remarked) I could not dismiss her from my recollection, do what I would. 'It would be a curious speculation' said I after some restless turns across and across the room, 'to imagine her in her future life holding her solitary way among a crowd of wild grotesque companions, the only pure, fresh, youthful object among the throng.

He was shot in a fracas of some kind. Long fore he married. Come near dyin. So I always wondered about that, had he died none of us would never have been at all and I never could … Well, that's a funny thing to think. Maybe we would have just been somebody else.

If they'd thought a bit more about biological evolution and spent less time cooking up nutty theories they might have uncovered a few simple truths.

Gambling with cards or dice or stocks is all one thing. It's getting money without giving an equivalent for it.

Speculation is only a word covering the making of money out of the manipulation of prices, instead of supplying goods and services.

Speculation into thing already produced that is not business

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

Speculative fiction encompasses that which we could actually do. Sci-fi is that which we're probably not going to see.

Pliny suggested that the ostrich, then newly discovered, was the result of a cross between a giraffe and a gnat. (It would, I suppose, have to be a female giraffe and a male gnat.) In practice there must be many such crosses which have not been attempted because of a certain understandable lack of motivation.

Though some Bible students have tried to estimate how much this stone weighed, we need not speculate, because Jesus could have come out of that tomb whether the stone was there or not.