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Scientific research is compounded of ... empirical procedures, general speculative ideas, and mathematical or abstract reasoning.
— James Bryant Conant
Is there any greater mystery than the separateness of each person?
— Laura Van Den Berg
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
In the stock market the more elaborate and abstruse the mathematics the more uncertain and speculative the conclusion we draw therefrom ... .
— Michael Lewis
I'm not very much of a reader really, because I find much of it very bad, very uninteresting, very speculative.
— Henning Mankell
Let the spirits guide you, but never let them take you.
— E.J. Stevens
Speculative fiction includes all stories that take place in a setting contrary to known reality.
— Orson Scott Card
Matt shrugged. It was a good shrug, too. All it was missing was a beret, a stripy shirt and a Gauloise cigarette.
— D.C. Farmer
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— Peter F. Hamilton
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— Cynthia Willerth
One second she's all timid, and then reeoowr! Hellcat.
— Carrie Butler
My writing objective is to remove the stage and sing, dance, laugh and cry with the audience as one spirit.
— Cathie Wright-Lewis
I mean, that was the code, wasn't it? Single girls and taken guys weren't allowed to be friends. The leash always got in the way.
— Carrie Butler
Speculative fiction encompasses that which we could actually do. Sci-fi is that which we're probably not going to see.
— Margaret Atwood
If I had known how difficult it was to edit my book, I would have done that first then written the story.
— Edwin D. Ferretti III
Never mingle your speculative and investment operations in the same account nor in any part of your thinking.
— Benjamin Graham
As the wind continued to howl and groan through her decaying body, she began to sing her story.
— Ken Liu
sartorial splendor with a long, speculative survey
— Dana Stabenow
No degree of speculative knowledge of religion is any certain sign of true piety.
— Jonathan Edwards
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
It's also interesting to notice that most of the best Finnish speculative writers are women.
— Toni Jerrman
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
Funny, they made this new genre called Speculative Fiction, I thought all fiction had always been speculative.
— Teri Louise Kelly
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
Cathy introduced us. Christine stood there inside her smooth skin, warm and indolent, mildly speculative.
— John D. MacDonald
The history of science is everywhere speculative. It is a marvelous hiatory. It makes you proud to be a human being.
— Karl Popper
I am chaos in this ordered society, the flaw in a carefully wrought plan. I am turbulence in the queen's eternal river.
— Eugie Foster
Let us be dreamers, thinkers, speculative philosophers, or as our spouses would have it: Idiots
— Douglas Adams
I liked painting and drawing, and I liked humanities mainly - poetry, literature - this speculative attitude toward life.
— Rafael Moneo
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
Speculative fiction both requires and rewards an open mind.
— Steven Poore
I think speculative fiction has fewer unspoken prerequisites than literary fiction for writers of color.
— Nnedi Okorafor
I believe in poetic discourse, in the value of speech in a non-naturalistic way; it's speculative.
— Howard Barker
This is what the painter, the poet, the speculative philosopher, and the natural scientists do, each in his own fashion.
— Albert Einstein
All because I fell in love with a madman.
— Carrie Butler
My hopes for pie died on the sidewalk. There went my grin.
— Carrie Butler
This is more than an experience in the shadows of sleep.
— Richard Bunning
If speculative ideas can not be tested, they're not science; they don't even rise to the level of being wrong.
— Wolfgang Pauli
Love is no ingredient in a merely speculative faith, but it is the life and soul of a practical faith.
— Jonathan Edwards
He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher ... or, as his wife would have it, an idiot.
— Douglas Adams
The speculative part of my work is that these particular cognitive tasks - ways of thinking analytically - are tied to nature's laws.
— Edward Tufte
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
In my imagination, the Editor meditated in a mountain-cave, espoused the rules of grammar, and frowned upon speculative fiction.
— Josh Malerman
Humans are strange. ... They value punishment because they think it means their actions are important - that they are important. ... it's vanity.
— Robert Jackson Bennett
I've loved sci-fi and speculative fiction since I was a kid. It was inevitable I'd try my hand at it at some point.
— Rick Yancey
I think teens are drawn to these speculative books that portray what might happen and what could happen.
— Lois Lowry
It's nice to be nice.
— Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
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
Attempts to estimate the impacts of climate change continue to be highly speculative.
— William Nordhaus
They live inside of what is essentially one huge wearable. Everyone connected to everyone even when they shit.
— Brenda Cooper
Poetic and speculative photographs can result if one works carefully and accurately, yet letting chance relationships have full play.
— Frederick Sommer
People won't change until the pain of not changing is greater than the pain changing brings.
— Just B. Jordan
My special pleasure in mathematics rested particularly on its purely speculative part.
— Bernard Bolzano
Trin Tragula - for that was his name - was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher or, as his wife would have it, an idiot. And
— Douglas Adams
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
If the world explore all my dark fantasy, will change for the better.
— Alexandar Tomov
First contact comes not by hand of man, but by metal of machine.
— Ryan Sean O'Reilly
