Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill.
Science fiction is the great opportunity to speculate on what could happen. It does give me, as a futurist, scenarios.
I was raised by a single psychologist mother and we spent every evening sitting at the kitchen table and dissecting our emotions and speculating about the inner life of everyone we knew.
I believe in poetic discourse, in the value of speech in a non-naturalistic way; it's speculative.
Evolution is a bankrupt speculative philosophy, not a scientific fact.
The anticipation-speculation that comes with a weekly schedule is a double-edged sword. Because people have more time to talk about things, some crazy ideas get a lot of attention.
Speculation is only a word covering the making of money out of the manipulation of prices, instead of supplying goods and services.
We have failed to protect science against speculative extensions of nature, continuing to assign physical and mathematical properties to hypothetical entities beyond what is observable in nature.
And I have to speculate that God himself did make us into corresponding shapes, like puzzle pieces from the clay.
For the Christian, heaven is where Jesus is. We do not need to speculate on what heaven will be like. It is enough to know that we will be for ever with Him.
My wedding won't be a hush-hush affair. When I get married, everyone will get to know about it... there'll be nothing speculative about my wedding.
I‘m very aware that my personal life, my marriage, is the source of speculation and interest in the department and with the public. I can live with that. I’m also aware that my husband’s businesses, and his style of conducting his businesses, a...
I liked painting and drawing, and I liked humanities mainly - poetry, literature - this speculative attitude toward life.
In practical life we are compelled to follow what is most probable ; in speculative thought we are compelled to follow truth.
Like this cup, you are full of your own opinions and speculations. How can I show you wisdom unless you first empty your cup?
In the 1920s, Wall Street was a world that was really dominated by professional speculators and stock pools. These people had a monopoly over information.
The one thing that's absolutely clear is that Karl was not the source for the leak and there's no basis for any additional speculation.
When the brain gets lost, it doesn't stop working. It tries to makes sense of things. It begins to speculate and guess, and that's when things open up. That's exciting.
When you look at a commodities market you need hedgers and speculators. If you don't have one, you don't have a market. That's how it works.
Emotional speculation is to deductive reasoning what weeds are to a garden – at first sight they appear to belong, but eventually they obscure that which one hopes will come into bud.
An early fascination with higher mathematics at the university level blossomed into speculative thinking that could provide a basis for dealing with economic issues.
