Many of the concepts we once thought belonged to speculation or science fiction are now part of our understood reality.
I am a firm believer, that without speculation there is no good and original observation.
Time puts an end to speculation in opinions, and confirms the laws of nature.
I think everybody in this generation, and I'm the leading edge of the baby boom - I was born in 1946 - has benefitted from a 30-year explosion of debt, which created temporary but unsustainable economic prosperity and a financialization of the system through lower, and lower, and lower interest rates that has created massive rewards to speculation but not real investments so I benefitted from it. Almost everyone who has been in the market has benefitted but they didn't earn it.
Finally, in our progress toward a resumption of work we require two safeguards against a return of the evils of the old order: there must be a strict supervision of all banking and credits and investments; there must be an end to speculation with other people's money, and there must be provision for an adequate but sound currency.
If the world were good for nothing else, it is a fine subject for speculation.
I understand the gist of your speculation,' said Rhialto. 'It is most likely nuncupatory.
Speculation, like nature, abhors a vacuum.
I believe - deeply and profoundly - that speculation is a loser's game.
If you're doing a good job as author, then you get the reader to engage in whatever speculation might be called for. And it's much more meaningful for the reader, if he or she comes up with the questions.
In fact, the ultimate speculation we can make about the nature of Divinity is that Divinity is NO-THING which we can know. In Hebrew, the word for no-thing (nothing) is AIN.
Don't rely on logic alone, nor speculation. Don't infer or be deceived by appearances.
It is no small benefit on finding oneself in bed in the dark to go over again in the imagination the main lines of the forms previously studied, or other noteworthy things conceived by ingenious speculation.
Divinity consists in use and practice, not in speculation.
Of course, speculation will always make a crisis worse. If there is a weak point, it will expose it.
Enjoy mystery and speculation, but don't drift into dogma.
Speculation is the romance of trade, and casts contempt upon on all its sober realities. It renders the stock-jobber a magician, and the exchange a region of enchantment.
I could speculate, but it would be just speculation and the kind of thing that you would get in with a science fiction story. And if I was doing a science fiction story then I would come up with what can go wrong with this system.
Speculations? I have none. I am resting on certainties.
I do believe that we should substantially lower student debt in this country, which is crushing millions of people. We pay for it, in my view, by a tax on Wall Street speculation. The middle class bailed out Wall Street in their time of need. Now, it is Wall Street's time to help the middle class.