Quotes for All
I don’t expect that the scientific community now embraces and kisses me ‘Oh wonderful, great you did!’ we have to live with critics, this is normal. Chariots of the Gods was full of speculation, I had 238 question marks. Nobody read the question mark. They always said: Mr. Von Daniken is saying… I did not … Read more
Currency speculation-over a trillion dollars a day-is a tax-free activity. The notion of a tax on day trades or other speculative swaps was revived in recent years, but has been studiously ignored by all our purveyors of conventional economic wisdom. That is because we have been persuaded, against logic, and moral sense, that the institution … Read more
In love as in speculation there is much filth; in love also, people think only of their own gratification; yet without love there would be no life, and the world would come to an end. Emile Zola
For a long time it has been known that the first systems of representations with which men have pictured to themselves the world and themselves were of religious origin. There is no religion that is not a cosmology at the same time that it is a speculation upon divine things. If philosophy and the sciences … Read more
The future of Afghanistan is incredibly dark, and decisions are happening incredibly quickly. Speculation is a fool’s game, but I’ve seen many political projections that look like the Taliban could hold most of the country, and possibly Kabul, within perhaps a short time. I can’t imagine how Afghanistan’s fall isn’t going to be ten times … Read more
Speculation is a fool’s game, but I’ve seen many political projections that look like the Taliban could hold most of the country, and possibly Kabul, within perhaps a short time. Eliza Griswold
\”In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth…\” Whatever our speculations may be in regard to a \”beginning,\” and when it was, it is written in the rocks that, like the animals and plants upon its surface, the earth itself grew. Elisha Gray
A man who is all theory is like \”a rudderless ship on a shoreless sea.\” … Theories and speculations may be indulged in with safety only as long as they are based on facts that we can go back to at all times and know that we are on solid ground. Elisha Gray
I believe the deeply rooted semantic confusion between ‘man’ as a male and ‘man’ as a species has been fed back into and vitiated a great deal of the speculation that goes on about the origins, development, and nature of the human race. Elaine Morgan
Painting, because of its universality, becomes speculation. El Greco