Speculation Quotes - Page 9

• Don't rely on logic alone, nor speculation. Don't infer or be deceived by appearances.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Logic, Appearance

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• 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.

  Michael Hudson

  Country, Australia, Demand

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• Those who assume hypotheses as first principles of their speculations.....may indeed form an ingenious romance, but a romance it will still be.

  Roger Cotes

  Romance, Principles, May

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• Not only did he teach by accomplishment, but he taught by the inspiration of a marvelous imagination that refused to accept the permanence of what appeared to others to be insuperable difficulties: an imagination of the goals of which, in a number of instances, are still in the realms of speculation.

  Edwin Howard Armstrong

  Inspiration, Science, Numbers

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• Any photograph has multiple meanings: indeed, to see something in the form of a photograph is to encounter a potential object of fascination. The ultimate wisdom of the photographic image is to say: “There is the surface. Now think – or rather feel, intuit – what is beyond it, what the reality must be like if it looks this way.’ Photographs, which cannot themselves explain anything, are inexhaustible invitations to deduction, speculation, and fantasy

  Susan Sontag

  Reality, Thinking, Fascination

  Susan Sontag (2011). “On Photography”, p.23, Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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• The artist must scorn all judgment that is not based on an intelligent observation of character. He must beware of the literary spirit which so often causes a painting to deviate from its true path - the concrete study of nature - to lose itself all too long in intangible speculations.

  Paul Cezanne

  Character, Intelligent, Artist

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• Too many composers become involved in intellectual speculation which seems to matter more to them than the sound that comes out of all this speculation.

  Louise Talma

  Meditation, Intellectual, Sound

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• It is interesting thus to follow the intellectual truths of analysis in the phenomena of nature. This correspondence, of which the system of the world will offer us numerous examples, makes one of the greatest charms attached to mathematical speculations.

  Pierre-Simon Laplace

  Science, Law, Interesting

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• Generally speaking, geologists seem to have been much more intent on making little worlds of their own, than in examining the crust of that which they inhabit. It would be much more desirable that facts should be placed in the foreground and theories in the distance, than that theories should be brought forward at the expense of facts. So that, in after times, when the speculations of the present day shall have passed away, from a greater accumulation of information, the facts may be readily seized and converted to account.

  Henry De la Beche

  Distance, Science, Information

  "Gaither's Dictionary of Scientific Quotations" edited by Carl C. Gaither, Alma E. Cavazos-Gaither, Springer Science & Business Media, (p. 863), January 5, 2012.

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• I have read various articles on the fourth dimension, the relativity theory of Einstein, and other psychological speculation on the constitution of the universe; and after reading them I feel as Senator Brandegee felt after a celebrated dinner in Washington. "I feel," he said, "as if I had been wandering with Alice in Wonderland and had tea with the Mad Hatter."

  Charles Lane Poor

  Reading, Science, Mad

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• I am a firm believer, that without speculation there is no good and original observation.

  Charles Darwin

  Education, Science, Observation

  Charles Darwin (2016). “Life and Letters of Charles Darwin: the Evolution”, p.342, VM eBooks

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• In arriving at a decision in a question of doubt, the apostles in the Acts were guided solely by their sense of the Spirit behind the action, not by any speculations as to consequences which might ensue. And so they found the truth.

  Roland Allen

  Decision, Doubt, Might

  Roland Allen, David M. Paton (2012). “The Ministry of the Spirit: Selected Writings of Roland Allen”, p.50, The Lutterworth Press

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• As long as the problems of the poor are not radically resolved by rejecting the absolute autonomy of markets and financial speculation and by attacking the structural causes of inequality, no solution will be found for the world’s problems or, for that matter, to any problems.

  Pope Francis

  Government, Long, People

  "Evangelii Gaudium Of the Holy Father Francis". Apostolic Exhortation, w2.vatican.va. November 24, 2013.

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• I don't think that governments should permit speculation in raw materials, because they're what the economy basically needs.

  Michael Hudson

  Thinking, Government, Needs

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• 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.

  Michael Hudson

  Oil, Arabia, Fracking

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• Ever since men became capable of free speculation, their actions, in innumerable important respects, have depended upon their theories as to the world and human life, as to what is good and what is evil. This is true in the present day as at any former time. To understand an age or a nation, we must understand its philosophy, and to understand its philosophy we must ourselves be in some degree philosophers. There is here a reciprocal causation: the circumstances of men s lives do much to determine their philosophy, but, conversely, their philosophy does much to determine their circumstances.

  Bertrand Russell

  Philosophy, Men, Evil

  "History of Western Philosophy".

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• Professional traders have always had some system or other based upon their experience and governed either by their attitude towards speculation or by their desires.

  Jesse Lauriston Livermore

  Attitude, Desire, Investing

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• You're free to speculate as you wish about the philosophical and allegorical meaning of the film—and such speculation is one indication that it has succeeded in gripping the audience at a deep level—but I don't want to spell out a verbal road map for 2001 that every viewer will feel obligated to pursue or else fear he's missed the point.

  Stanley Kubrick

  Philosophical, Wish, Maps

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• I think prices have been moving more on speculation than reality. But this is a market that has been driven by fear for two or three years.

  James Williams

  Moving, Reality, Thinking

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• The people who are abroad are all those that have no religion, neither one based on speculation nor one received by tradition. Such are the extreme Turks that wander about in the north, the Kushites who live in the south, and those in our country who are like these. I consider these as irrational beings, and not as human beings; they are below mankind, but above monkeys, since they have the form and shape of man, and a mental faculty above that of the monkey.

  Maimonides

  Country, Religious, Animal

  Moses Maimonides (1961). “The Guide for the Perplexed”, p.384, Courier Corporation

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• I have no regrets about my life. People ask, "If you had to do it all over again, would you do it differently?" No. That's speculation.

  Chuck Yeager

  Regret, People, Asks

  "Chuck Yeager: The Right Stuff". Interview with Jim Clash, www.askmen.com.

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• If I know Hinduism at all, it is essentially inclusive and ever-growing, ever-responsive. It gives the freest scope for imagination, speculation and reason.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Giving, Imagination, Growing

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “Collected Works”

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• Enjoy mystery and speculation, but don't drift into dogma.

  Rob Bell

  Dogma, Mystery, Enjoy

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• It is scandalous the way some scientists accept uncritically some of the most ridiculous speculations, such as the plurality of worlds, the opinion that spacetime has more than 4 dimensions, that particles can move faster than light, or that human life can be prolonged indefinitely.

  Mario Bunge

  Moving, Light, World

  Source: deutsche-denker.de

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• Sir, Your letter of the 15th is received, but Age has long since obliged me to withhold my mind from Speculations of the difficulty of those of your letter, that their are means of artificial buoyancy by which man may be supported in the Air, the Balloon has proved, and that means of directing it may be discovered is against no law of Nature and is therefore possible as in the case of Birds, but to do this by mechanical means alone in a medium so rare and unassisting as air must have the aid of some principal not yet generally known.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Mean, Men, Air

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