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.

Then she snapped her fingers and we were standing on Europa, discussing the possibility of extraterrestrial life beneath the moon's icy crust. I