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Speculative fiction encompasses that which we could actually do. Sci-fi is that which we're probably not going to see. -- Margaret Atwood
Speculative fiction is where my heart lies. It's what I read growing up, and it's what I read as an adult. -- Patrick Rothfuss
Speculative joy, the joy derived from being right and being rewarded, may well be similar to the rush felt by a winning gambler. -- Michael Steinhardt
Speculative stock movements are carried too far in both directions, frequently in the general market and at all times in at least some of the individual issues. -- Benjamin Graham
My studies in Speculative philosophy, metaphysics, and science are all summed up in the image of a mouse called man running in and out of every hole in the Cosmos hunting for the Absolute Cheese. -- Benjamin De Casseres
Masonic ideas are the precious jewels of Speculative Masons; the should be kept bright and sparkling for all the brethren to see and to admire. As such, they should be the special care of Masonic leaders particularly those who teach and interpret the philosophy of Freemasonry. -- Benjamin Franklin
Evolution is a bankrupt speculative philosophy, not a scientific fact. -- Jimmy Swaggart
I believe in poetic discourse, in the value of speech in a non-naturalistic way; it's speculative. -- Howard Barker
He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher... or, as his wife would have it, an idiot. -- Douglas Adams
I think teens are drawn to these speculative books that portray what might happen and what could happen. -- Lois Lowry
An early fascination with higher mathematics at the university level blossomed into speculative thinking that could provide a basis for dealing with economic issues. -- Lawrence R. Klein
True science is never speculative; it employs hypotheses as suggesting points for inquiry, but it never adopts the hypotheses as though they were demonstrated propositions. -- Cleveland Abbe
The service of philosophy, of speculative culture, towards the human spirit, is to rouse, to startle it to a life of constant and eager observation. -- Walter Pater
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. -- Bipasha Basu
I wrote speculative fiction because I loved to read it, and thought I could do better than some of the people who were getting published. -- Fred Saberhagen
Evolution is a bankrupt speculative philosophy, not a scientific fact. Only a spiritually bankrupt society could ever believe it. Only atheists could accept this Satanic theory. -- Jimmy Swaggart
The risks are far greater to your child of not getting immunized than any kind of speculative potential relationship between the vaccine and the development of autism. -- Irwin Redlener
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. -- Robert Lanza
Concentrating wealth in the hands of the few and deregulating financial institutions and practices lead to speculative bubbles that eventually burst - and that brings the whole country down. -- Jennifer Granholm
All the interests of my reason, speculative as well as practical, combine in the three following questions: 1. What can I know? 2. What ought I to do? 3. What may I hope? -- Immanuel Kant
I shall endeavour still further to prosecute this inquiry, an inquiry I trust not merely speculative, but of sufficient moment to inspire the pleasing hope of its becoming essentially beneficial to mankind. -- Edward Jenner
Stock market corrections, although painful at the time, are actually a very healthy part of the whole mechanism, because there are always speculative excesses that develop, particularly during the long bull market. -- Ron Chernow
I fear that, in the end, the famous debate among materialists, idealists, and dualists amounts to a merely verbal dispute that is more a matter for the linguist than for the speculative philosopher. -- Moses Mendelssohn
There were two qualities about the mutual funds of the 1920s that made them extremely speculative. One was that they were heavily leveraged. Two, mutual funds were allowed to invest in other mutual funds. -- Ron Chernow
I don't want what I am saying to sound like a prophecy or anything like an analysis of modern society... these are only feelings I have, and I am the least speculative man on earth. -- Michelangelo Antonioni
Fusion power is speculative and experimental. I think it is reckless to assume that the fusion problem will be cracked, but I'm happy to estimate how much power fusion could deliver, if the problems are cracked. -- David J. C. MacKay
We have little choice but to place a certain level of trust in scientists - even when it comes to the model-driven speculative discipline of climate change. And, need it be said, most scientists take great care in being honest, principled and precise. -- David Harsanyi
There is more to be pondered in the grain and texture of life than traditional fiction allows. The work of essayists is vital precisely because it permits and encourages self-knowledge in a way that is less indirect than fiction, more open and speculative. -- Charles J. Shields
A single agency responsible for systemic risk would be accountable in a way that no regulator was in the run-up to the 2008 crisis. With access to all necessary information to monitor the markets, this regulator would have a better chance of identifying and limiting the impact of future speculative bubbles. -- Henry Paulson
As a writer of fiction who deals with technology, I necessarily deal with the history of technology and the history of technologically induced social change. I roam up and down it in a kind of special way because I roam down it into history, which is invariably itself a speculative affair. -- William Gibson
We've been surrounded by images of space our whole lives, from the speculative images of science fiction to the inspirational visions of artists to the increasingly beautiful pictures made possible by complex technologies. But whilst we have an overwhelmingly vivid visual understanding of space, we have no sense of what space sounds like. -- Honor Harger
Nihilism is not an existential quandary but a speculative opportunity. -- Ray Brassier
A speculative despair is unpardonable where it our duty to act. -- Edmund Burke
Books appear to be the most immediate instruments of speculative delight. -- Richard de Bury
My special pleasure in mathematics rested particularly on its purely speculative part. -- Bernard Bolzano
Attempts to estimate the impacts of climate change continue to be highly speculative. -- William Nordhaus
No degree of speculative knowledge of religion is any certain sign of true piety. -- Jonathan Edwards
It's also interesting to notice that most of the best Finnish speculative writers are women. -- Toni Jerrman
Every novel begins with the speculative question, What if "X" happened? That's how you start. -- Tom Clancy
Let us be dreamers, thinkers, speculative philosophers, or as our spouses would have it: Idiots -- Douglas Adams
... scientific research is compounded of ... empirical procedures, general speculative ideas, and mathematical or abstract reasoning. -- James Bryant Conant
I think speculative fiction has fewer unspoken prerequisites than literary fiction for writers of color. -- Nnedi Okorafor
Never mingle your speculative and investment operations in the same account nor in any part of your thinking. -- Benjamin Graham
I liked painting and drawing, and I liked humanities mainly - poetry, literature - this speculative attitude toward life. -- Rafael Moneo
Poetic and speculative photographs can result if one works carefully and accurately, yet letting chance relationships have full play. -- Frederick Sommer
If speculative ideas can not be tested, they're not science; they don't even rise to the level of being wrong. -- Wolfgang Pauli
Speculation in land may be necessary to capitalism, but speculative orgies periodically become a quagmire of destruction for capital itself. -- David Harvey
Love is no ingredient in a merely speculative faith, but it is the life and soul of a practical faith. -- Jonathan Edwards
This is what the painter, the poet, the speculative philosopher, and the natural scientists do, each in his own fashion. -- Albert Einstein
I'm not very much of a reader really, because I find much of it very bad, very uninteresting, very speculative. -- Henning Mankell
In practical life we are compelled to follow what is most probable ; in speculative thought we are compelled to follow truth. -- Baruch Spinoza
The history of science is everywhere speculative. It is a marvelous hiatory. It makes you proud to be a human being. -- Karl Popper
I make films but I am trained as a designer. I come from this series of designers called critical designers, speculative designers. -- Nelly Ben Hayoun
I like the idea of a big caesura between the narratives, a space which readers can fill in with their own speculative history. -- Jonathan Coe
The speculative part of my work is that these particular cognitive tasks - ways of thinking analytically - are tied to nature's laws. -- Edward Tufte
If you write thrillers or mysteries or horror fiction or quote-unquote speculative fiction, men might read you, and the 'Times' might notice you. -- Jennifer Weiner
An early fascination with higher mathematics at the university level blossomed into speculative thinking that could provide a basis for dealing with economic issues. -- Lawrence R. Klein
A maxim is a conclusion upon observation of matters of fact, and is merely speculative; a "principle" carries knowledge within itself, and is prospective. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Nonetheless, it still remains true that as a set of cognitive beliefs, religious doctrines constitute a speculative hypothesis of an extremely low order of probability. -- Sidney Hook
A new and speculative idea, which although it may seem trivial and almost laughable, is nonetheless of great value in quickening the spirit of invention. -- Michael J. Gelb
I have written occasionally on links between my scientific work and political thinking, but not much, because the links seem to me abstract and speculative. -- Noam Chomsky
Where do we stand today compared to Greece circa 400 B.C.? Today's experiment-driven 'standard model' is not all that dissimilar to Democritus's speculative [sic] atomic theory. -- Leon M. Lederman
The true secret of success in the investment and speculative world is not so much which good securities to buy, but rather which investments to avoid. -- Morton Shulman
Historians don't really like to carry on speculative debates, but you could certainly argue that the likelihood of a Soviet invasion of Western Europe was extremely, extremely low." -- Aldrich Ames
Historians don't really like to carry on speculative debates, but you could certainly argue that the likelihood of a Soviet invasion of Western Europe was extremely, extremely low. -- Aldrich Ames
In reality, no one knows what the market will do; trying to predict it is a waste of time, and investing based upon that prediction is a speculative undertaking. -- Seth Klarman
At bottom each "exact" science is, and must be speculative, and its chief tool of research, too rarely used with both courage and judgement, is the regulated imagination. -- Reginald Aldworth Daly
Seek first the Kingdom of God: that is, the first order of business is to transform one's own inner life, not the accumulation of external trappings of speculative knowledge. -- John D. Caputo
My last book was speculative. I just don't quite know what I am doing. But I'll get there. I have a list of things I would love to write. -- Jami Attenberg
Thus the same object may supply a practical perception to one person and a speculative one to another, or the same person may perceive it partly practically and partly speculatively. -- Samuel Alexander
My fundamental axiom of speculative philosophy is that materialism and spiritualism are opposite poles of the same absurdity-the absurdity of imagining that we know anything about either spirit or matter. -- Thomas Huxley
With uncertainty in oil markets, a buildup of speculative pressures and the large U.S. current account deficit, there is a real possibility that Paulson's crisis-management skills will be tested. -- Lawrence Summers
The speculative thinker makes Christianity into theology, instead of recognizing that a living relationship to Christ involves passion, struggle, decision, personal appropriation, and inner transformation.' (Moore's summary of Kierkegaard) -- Charles E. Moore
Theologians have felt no hesitation in founding a system of speculative thought on the teachings of Jesus; and yet Jesus was never an inhabitant of the realm of speculative thought. -- Walter Rauschenbusch
Man is constituted as a speculative being; he contemplates the world, and the objects around him, not with a passive indifferent eye, but as a system disposed with order and design. -- John Herschel
I was utterly free of speculative prejudices. The bear side doesn't appeal to me any more than the bull side, or vice versa. My one steadfast prejudice is against being wrong. -- Jesse Lauriston Livermore
There is very little difference between speculation and investment. The only difference is basically that investments are successful speculations because if you successfully anticipate the future you make a speculative profit. -- George Soros
House prices have risen by nearly 25 percent over the past two years. Although speculative activity has increased in some areas, at a national level these price increases largely reflect strong economic fundamentals. -- Ben Bernanke
A striking feature of financial service activities during the past few decades is that the financial transactions essential to the operation of the 'real' economy has become increasingly dwarfed by speculative activity. -- Peter Dicken
At long as a stock is acting right, and the market is right, do not be in a hurry to take profits. One should never permit speculative ventures to run into investments. -- Jesse Lauriston Livermore
No nation can say, 'We will capitulate to tyranny rather than accept a speculative fate - to accept an absolute fate in alternative to a speculative one' - no nation can do that. -- Reinhold Niebuhr
I fear that, in the end, the famous debate among materialists, idealists, and dualists amounts to a merely verbal dispute that is more a matter for the linguist than for the speculative philosopher -- Moses Mendelssohn
We are not to consider ourselves, while here, as at church or school, to listen to the harangues of speculative piety; we are here to talk of the political interests committed to our charge. -- Fisher Ames
I'll tell you an explanation that I find commonly overrated and speculative in the extreme: the idea that things that succeed in popular culture do that because they hit the temper of the times. -- Cass Sunstein

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