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• I think moral philosophy is speculation on how we ought to live together done by people who have very little clue how people work. So I think most moral philosophy is disconnected from the species that we happen to be. In fact, they like it that way. Many moral philosophers insist that morality grows out of our rationality, that it applies to any rational being anywhere in the universe, and that it is not based on contingent or coincidental facts about our evolution.

  Jonathan Haidt

  Philosophy, Thinking, People

  Source: bigthink.com

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• We're obviously in speculation territory here, because we don't know what the Trump administration is going to do.

  Judy Woodruff

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Of course, speculation will always make a crisis worse. If there is a weak point, it will expose it.

  George Soros

  Weak Points, Crisis, Courses

  "'You Need This Dirty Word, Euro Bonds'". SPIEGEL Interview, www.spiegel.de. August 15, 2011.

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• There is very little difference between speculation and investment. The only difference is basically that investments are successful speculations because if you successfully anticipate the future you make a speculative profit.

  George Soros

  Successful, Differences, Littles

  George Soros (2014). “The Tragedy of the European Union: Disintegration or Revival?”, p.84, PublicAffairs

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• Our economy will not prosper as long as it is monopolised (by the government). The economy must be rid of monopoly and see competition, it must be freed of insider speculation, be transparent, all people must be aware of the statistics. If we can bring transparency to our economy, we can fight corruption.

  Hassan Rouhani

  Fighting, Government, Long

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• It is also painful to see that the struggle against hunger and malnutrition is hindered by market priorities, the primacy of profit, which have reduced foodstuffs to a commodity like any other, subject to speculation, also of a financial nature, The hungry remain, at the street corner, and ask to be recognized as citizens, to receive a healthy diet. We ask for dignity, not for charity.

  Pope Francis

  Nature, Struggle, Priorities

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• Many expressions in the New Testament come naturally to the lips of all Protestants, and it furnishes the most pregnant and practical texts. There is no harmless dreaming, no wise speculation in it, but everywhere a substratum of good sense. It never reflects, but it repents. There is no poetry in it, we may say, nothing regarded in the light of beauty merely, but moral truth is its object. All mortals are convicted by its conscience.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Wise, Dream, Light

  Henry David Thoreau (2017). “The Most Alive is the Wildest – Thoreau’s Complete Works on Living in Harmony with the Nature: Walden, Walking, Night and Moonlight, The Highland Light, A Winter Walk, The Maine Woods, A Walk to Wachusett, The Landlord, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, Autumnal Tints, Wild Apples…”, p.327, e-artnow

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• Latin America is now exploring new and often promising paths in rejecting the doctrinal notions of "globalization," and also in the remarkable growth of popular movements and authentic participation in the political systems. How successful this will be is more a matter for action than for speculation.

  Noam Chomsky

  Latin, Successful, Political

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• I believe - deeply and profoundly - that speculation is a loser's game.

  John C. Bogle

  Believe, I Believe

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• 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.

  David Stockman

  Baby, Real, Thinking

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I agree we have enough books that attempt to explain why God allows suffering, presumably in a way that lets God off the hook. And while much smarter men than I have constructed elaborate systems in this pursuit, they are by definition exercises in speculation.

  Tullian Tchividjian

  Letting Go, Book, Exercise

  Source: www.lifeisstory.com

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• The end of knowledge is power ... the scope of all speculation is the performing of some action or thing to be done.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Knowledge, Science, Power

  Thomas Hobbes, Thucydides, Homer (1839). “The English Works of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury”, p.7

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• Geology differs as widely from cosmogony, as speculations concerning the creation of man differ from history.

  Charles Lyell

  Science, Men, Creation Of Man

  Sir Charles Lyell, Gérard Paul Deshayes (1830). “Principles of Geology: Being an Attempt to Explain the Former Changes of the Earth's Surface, by Reference to Causes Now in Operation”, p.4

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• The vortex theory [of the atom] is only a dream. Itself unproven, it can prove nothing, and any speculations founded upon it are mere dreams about dreams.

  Lord Kelvin

  Dream, Science, Atoms

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• Speculations apparently the most unprofitable have almost invariably been those from which the greatest practical applications have emanated.

  John Herschel

  Science, Discovery, Application

  Sir John Frederick William Herschel, William Whewell, George Henry Lewes, Hermann von Helmholz, James Clerk Maxwell (1996). “The Origins of Modern Philosophy of Science, 1830-1914: Preliminary discourse on the study of natural philosophy”

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• Such philosophy as shall not vanish in the fume of subtile, sublime, or delectable speculation but shall be operative to the endowment and betterment of man's life.

  Francis Bacon

  Life, Philosophy, Science

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• The fear of speculation, the ostensible rush from the theoretical to the practical, brings about the same shallowness in action that it does in knowledge. It is by studying a strictly theoretical philosophy that we become most acquainted with Ideas, and only Ideas provide action with vigour and ethical meaning.

  Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling

  Philosophy, Knowledge, Ideas

  "Lectures on the Method of Academic Study" by Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling, translated by E. S. Morgan, edited by Norbert Guterman, 1966.

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• Faith is kept alive in us, and gathers strength, more from practice than from speculations.

  Joseph Addison

  Strength, Faith, Practice

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• But if it was always a point of speculation, where one person insisted it was a certain way and another denied it, how would anyone ever hold on to the truth?

  Kiera Cass

  Way, Certain, Persons

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• Most of the crackpot papers which are submitted to The Physical Review are rejected, not because it is impossible to understand them, but because it is possible. Those which are impossible to understand are usually published. When the great innovation appears, it will almost certainly be in a muddled, incomplete and confusing form. To the discoverer himself it will be only half-understood; to everybody else it will be a mystery. For any speculation which does not at first glance look crazy, there is no hope.

  Freeman Dyson

  Crazy, Science, Discovery

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• Surgical knowledge depends on long practice, not from speculations.

  Marcello Malpighi

  Knowledge, Science, Practice

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• Philosophy is regarded by many as inseparable from speculation. ... Philosophy has proceeded from speculation to science.

  Hans Reichenbach

  Philosophy, Philosophical, Science

  Hans Reichenbach (1973). “The Rise of Scientific Philosophy”, p.7, Univ of California Press

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• I also ask you my friends not to condemn me entirely to the mill of mathematical calculations, and allow me time for philosophical speculations, my only pleasures.

  Johannes Kepler

  Philosophy, Philosophical, Science

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• To design an easy-to-use interface, pay attention to what users do, not what they say. Self-reported claims are unreliable, as are user speculations about future behavior.

  Jakob Nielsen

  Self, Design, Pay

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• 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 were born of religion, it is because religion began by taking the place of the sciences and philosophy.

  Emile Durkheim

  Religious, Philosophy, Science

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