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• Realizing how often ingenious speculation in the complex biological world has led nowhere and how often the real advances in biology as well as in chemistry, physics and astronomy have kept within the bounds of mechanistic interpretation, we geneticists should rejoice, even with our noses on the grindstone (which means both eyes on the objectives), that we have at command an additional means of testing whatever original ideas pop into our heads.

  Thomas Hunt Morgan

  Real, Mean, Eye

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• The universality of tattooing is a curious subject for speculation.

  James Cook

  Tattoo, Curious, Subjects

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• Buddhism is a hundred times as realistic as Christianity it is part of its living heritage that it is able to face problems objectively and coolly; it is the product of long centuries of philosophical speculation.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Philosophical, Buddhism, Long

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “The Antichrist”, p.47, Friederich Nietzsche

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• The hybridoma technology was a by-product of basic research. Its success in practical applications is to a large extent the result of unexpected and unpredictable properties of the method. It thus represents another clear-cut example of the enormous practical impact of an investment in research which might not have been considered commercially worthwhile, or of immediate medical relevance. It resulted from esoteric speculations, for curiosity's sake, only motivated by a desire to understand nature.

  Cesar Milstein

  Success, Nature, Cutting

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• A reporter started off: "I know a lot of this is kind of speculation." Popovich interupting: "You're going to ask me anyway." Reporter: "And you're going to shoot it down." Popovich replied: "Next question."

  Gregg Popovich

  Basketball, Next, Kind

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• To model our political system upon speculations of lasting tranquility, is to calculate on the weaker springs of the human character.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Spring, Character, Political

  1787-8 The Federalist Papers.

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• I am quite conscious that my speculations run beyond the bounds of true science....It is a mere rag of an hypothesis with as many flaw[s] & holes as sound parts.

  Charles Darwin

  Running, Sound, Rags

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• In the last two months I have been very busy with my own mathematical speculations, which have cost me much time, without my having reached my original goal. Again and again I was enticed by the frequently interesting prospects from one direction to the other, sometimes even by will-o'-the-wisps, as is not rare in mathematic speculations.

  Carl Friedrich Gauss

  Two, One Direction, Interesting

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• Problems come and go over time, and to understand why is a difficult historical task. If one wanted to find the origin of a problem, historical research and close attention to texts is what is needed, not unconstrained speculation about the 'pictures' that philosophers must be in the grip of.

  Tim Crane

  Historical, Attention, Philosopher

  "Mindful". Interview With Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com.

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• One measure for promoting both stability and fairness across financial market segments is a small sales tax on all financial transactions - what has come to be known as a Robin Hood Tax. This tax would raise the costs of short-term speculative trading and therefore discourage speculation. At the same time, the tax will not discourage "patient" investors who intend to hold their assets for longer time periods, since, unlike the speculators, they will be trading infrequently.

  Robert Pollin

  Patient, Fairness, Financial

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• I think that France has not made it clear enough recently to our German friends how important it is to introduce euro bonds as a tool against speculation. And how the necessary budget discipline needs to be accompanied by growth.

  Francois Hollande

  Thinking, Discipline, Growth

  "French Presidential Candidate Hollande 'They'll Have to Listen to Me'". Interview with Mathieu von Rohr and Romain Leick, www.spiegel.de. March 12, 2012.

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• Nostalgia often leads to idle speculation.

  Paul Getty

  Nostalgia, Economy, Idle

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• I know nothing more annoying when people I don't know jump to conclusions on my person based on nothing but gossip or speculation.

  Nikolaj Coster-Waldau

  People, Gossip, Annoying

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It is intellectually dishonest to look backwards with all the facts and judge the decisions that were made with almost none of the facts, or the facts that existed hidden in the normal cloud of endless speculation of what might happen.

  Norm Coleman

  Clouds, Judging, Decision

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• Lovers may be and indeed generally are enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.

  Lord Byron

  Love, Friends, Jealousy

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• What is faith but a kind of betting or speculation after all? It should be, I bet that my Redeemer liveth.

  Samuel Butler

  Atheism, Kind, Should

  Samuel Butler, Hans-Peter Breuer (1984). “The Note-books of Samuel Butler: 1874-1883”, Univ Pr of Amer

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• Soaring prices for crude oil, falling production surpluses, wild speculation in commodities, a rush into the precious metals, turmoil in the Middle East, assertive oil producers: it is 1973-74 all over again, and at dictation speed.

  James Buchan

  Fall, Oil, Middle East

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• For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Honesty, Business, Financial

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• Yeah, I think speculation keeps things really interesting.

  Adam Lambert

  Thinking, Interesting, Yeah

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• The media tends to report rumors, speculations, and projections as facts... How does the media do this? By quoting some 'expert'... you can always find some expert who will say something hopelessly hopeless about anything.

  Peter McWilliams

  Media, Rumor, Facts

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• The amount of speculation surrounding my romantic life is astounding. It's strange how involved people get: invested and angry, really disappointed.

  Sienna Miller

  Romantic, People, Strange

  "Sienna Miller: 'I've bought my freedom'". Interview with Andrew Dickson, www.theguardian.com. March 8, 2011.

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• There is this thing called the university, and everybody goes there now. And there are these things called teachers who make students read this book with good ideas or that book with good ideas until that's where we get our ideas. We don't think them; we read them in books. I like Utopian talk, speculation about what our planet should be, anger about what our planet is. I think writers are the most important members of society, not just potentially but actually. Good writers must have and stand by their own ideas.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Teacher, Book, Writing

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• We wish to find the truth, no matter where it lies. But to find the truth we need imagination and skepticism both. We will not be afraid to speculate, but we will be careful to distinguish speculation from fact.

  Carl Sagan

  Lying, Imagination, Wish

  "Cosmos: A Personal Voyage". Documentary (1990 Update). Episode 1: "The Shores of the Cosmic Ocean", 1990.

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• What is today a matter of academic speculation begins tomorrow to move armies and pull down empires.

  John Gresham Machen

  Moving, Army, Empires

  John Gresham Machen (1951). “What is Christianity?: And Other Addresses”

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• Beyond the hype, style, and speculation, the truth is that the iPad is really just another tablet device. A really big PDA, where a touchscreen does what a laptop's keyboard used to do.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  Ipads, Hype, Pda

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