I do not believe in any religion, I will have nothing to do with immortality. We are miserable enough in this life without speculating upon another.

Truth be told, evolution hasn’t yielded many practical or commercial benefits. Yes, bacteria evolve drug resistance, and yes, we must take countermeasures, but beyond that there is not much to say. Evolution cannot help us...

When things don’t add up, either you don’t have a calculator or you forgot to use commonsense by simply asking.

The writers in the newspapers could sounds smart because they did not have the responsibilities of decision, and they could sound bold by enunciating positions which they were not required to implement.

First impression is not the last reflection of a true friend, so if you are head over heels for someone who just bought you a cake, you’d better think twice before devouring your misery.

There is enough mystery in human nature to keep the world stuck in a perpetual state of righteous speculation. Only the wise and compassionate will rise above it, with enough vision to see that inconsistency...

My favorite flower is the tulip. I’m crazy like Holland about them. I’ll even pay as much as $1,637 for one.

A wonderful area for speculative academic work is the unknowable. These days religious subjects are in disfavor, but there are still plenty of good topics. The nature of consciousness, the workings of the brain, the...

In practical life we are compelled to follow what is most probable ; in speculative thought we are compelled to follow truth.

Do not conform to seek the seekers, but leave the leavers. Wisdom comes from facing what you do not yet understand.

Part of that may be the fact that there is speculation out there that this may curb the Fed’s enthusiasm for tightening somewhat, either short or longer term.

What Pascal overlooked was the hair-raising possibility that God might out-Luther Luther. A special area in hell might be reserved for those who go to mass. Or God might punish those whose faith is prompted...

People, who have known a person for many days but could never spot or appreciate his hidden talent in the first place, are likely to raise their suspicions on seeing him ever winning laurels in...

When a small group of people come together to relive the Salem witch hunts, God cries. For if anything is sorrowful to God, it is evil done in his name. When you find out you...

Speculation, speculation!’ she [Caroline Hamelin] mechanically repeated, struggling with her doubts. ‘Ah! the idea of it fills my heart with disturbing anguish.

People are waiting for the next catalyst. Earnings are done, the Fed is in a neutral stance. There’s nothing big coming up in the next month, so the market will continue to trade on rumors...

To suppose that the eye with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different amounts of light, and for the correction of spherical and chromatic aberration, could have been...

Being kind to someone, only to look kind to others, defeats the purpose of being kind.

In love as 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...

The fourth quarter is likely to be filled with anxiety-provoking rumor and speculation – not fun for investors. Moreover, we do think that many investors may feel that they have heard too many excuses about...

Henry is contracted here and I’ve no knowledge of any speculation in Australia.

There will always be people afraid of the monsters in the night. They are usually the ones that look for them because they have proven they exist in themselves.

This was the time when the rush for the spoils filled a corner of the forest with the yelping of hounds, the cracking of whips, the flaring of torches. The appetites let loose were satisfied...

With theology as a code of dogmas which are to be believed, or at any rate repeated, under penalty of present or future punishment, or as a storehouse of anaesthetics for those who find the...

Our are speculations are not the measure of our God.

At least you look as if you’re here. But maybe you aren’t. Maybe it’s just your shadow. The real you may be someplace else. Or maybe you already disappeared, a long, long time ago. I...

From the dawn of exact knowledge to the present day, observation, experiment, and speculation have gone hand in hand; and, whenever science has halted or strayed from the right path, it has been, either because...

After the sounding-out meeting, and after the by-election in Dresden, it will be decided whether we can go on to negotiations with the conservatives, … All the jostling and speculation are not helpful now.

Speculation is a dangerous thing without any evidence to back it up.

… in these new days and in these new pages a philosophical tradition of the spontaneity of speculation kind has been rekindled on the sacred isle of Éire, regardless of its creative custodian never having...

The alluring, long-shot chance of a huge gain is the grease that lubricates the machine of innovation.

These mysteries about how we evolved should not distract us from the indisputable fact that we did evolve.

The witch-hunt narrative is now the conventional wisdom about these cases. That view is so widely endorsed and firmly entrenched that so widely endorsed and firmly entrenched that there would seem to be nothing left...

With increasing distance, our knowledge fades, and fades rapidly. Eventually, we reach the dim boundary—the utmost limits of our telescopes. There, we measure shadows, and we search among ghostly errors of measurement for landmarks that...

In science’s pecking order, evolutionary biology lurks somewhere near the bottom, far closer to phrenology than to physics. For evolutionary biology is a historical science, laden with history’s inevitable imponderables. We evolutionary biologists cannot generate...

When you see people only as personalities, rather than souls with life missions to fulfill, you forever limit the growth and possibilities of what God has in store for another person.