{"quotes":[{"text":"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 is a normal occurrence, during the spiritual battle of forgiveness and justice.","author":"Shannon L. Alder","tags":["actions","compassion","consciousness","consistency","doing","forgiveness","growing","hearing","hypocrisy","judging","justice","knowing","leadership","learning","philosophy","religion","seeing","speculation","spirituality","vision","visionary"],"id":16250,"author_id":"Shannon+L.+Alder"},{"text":"Some people will each start investing more of their salary on ‘their’ house and spending less of it on ‘their’ car or cars only when they start being able to take ‘their’ house to work, funerals, weddings, etc.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["acquisition","asset","assets","backing","bond","car","cars","conspicuous-consumption","consumerism","debt","divorce","employee","employees","employer","employers","employment","expend","financing","funding","funeral","funerals","gamble","gambling","holding","house","houses","humor","humour","invest","investing","investment","job","loan","marriage","materialism","mortgage","properties","property","return-on-investment","risk","roi","satire","show-off","speculate","speculation","spend","venture","wedding","weddings","work"],"id":43131,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"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 formed by natural selection, seems, I confess, absurd in the highest degree...The difficulty of believing that a perfect and complex eye could be formed by natural selection , though insuperable by our imagination, should not be considered subversive of the theory.","author":"Charles Darwin","tags":["biology","confessions-of-the-darwinists","conjecture","darwin","darwinism","darwinist-confessions","evolution","eye","human-eye","macro-evolution","macroevolution","natural-selection","neo-darwinism","pseudo-science","science","speculation"],"id":51857,"author_id":"Charles+Darwin"},{"text":"You will never know the moon or stars, unless you breathe in their solar system and inspect it from many diverse vantage points as possible.","author":"Shannon L. Alder","tags":["believing","children","coexist","commonsense","cultures","diversity","experience","experiences","family","friends","friendship","gossip","guessing","hear-say","homeless","knowing","mental-illness","mysteries","orphanages","people","personality","perspective","religion","research","society","speculation","stories","upbringing"],"id":52067,"author_id":"Shannon+L.+Alder"},{"text":"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 a Cretaceous Park to observe exactly what killed the dinosaurs; and, unlike 'harder' scientists, we usually cannot resolve issues with a simple experiment, such as adding tube A to tube B and noting the color of the mixture.","author":"Jerry A. Coyne","tags":["biology","confessions-of-the-darwinists","conjecture","darwin","darwinism","darwinist-confessions","evolution","macro-evolution","macroevolution","neo-darwinism","pseudo-science","science","speculation"],"id":60005,"author_id":"Jerry+A.+Coyne"},{"text":"...An' there never yet was speculation but in the long run, it meant smash. Ye run so hard that ye fall ower yoursel.","author":"Neil M. Gunn","tags":["economics","greed","speculation"],"id":67905,"author_id":"Neil+M.+Gunn"},{"text":"… 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 been taught how to freely speculate, how to profoundly question, and how to playfully define. Spontaneity of speculation being synonymous with the philosophical-poetic, the philosophical-poetic with the rural philosopher-poet, and by roundelay the rural philosopher-poet thee with the spontaneity of speculation be. And by the way of the rural what may we say? A philosopher-poet of illimitable space we say. Iohannes Scottus Ériugena the metaphor of old salutes you; salutes your lyrical ear and your skilful strumming of the rippling harp. (Source: Hearing in the Write, Canto 19, Ivy-muffled).","author":"Richard McSweeney","tags":["creative","custodian","eire","harp","ireland","irish","lyrical","metaphor","philosophical","poetic","rural","speculation","spontaneity","tradition"],"id":78145,"author_id":"Richard+McSweeney"},{"text":"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 pains of life too hard to bear, I have nothing to do; and, so far as it may be possible, I shall avoid the expression of any opinion as to the objective truth or falsehood of the systems of theological speculation of which I may find occasion to speak. From my present point of view, theology is regarded as a natural product of the operations of the human mind, under the conditions of its existence, just as any other branch of science, or the arts of architecture, or music, or painting are such products. Like them, theology has a history. Like them also, it is to be met with in certain simple and rudimentary forms; and these can be connected by a multitude of gradations, which exist or have existed, among people of various ages and races, with the most highly developed theologies of past and present times.","author":"Thomas Henry Huxley","tags":["architecture","art","belief","dogma","evolution","falsehood","gradation","history","mind","music","natural","naturalism","painting","penalty","punishment","science","speculation","theology","truth"],"id":99697,"author_id":"Thomas+Henry+Huxley"},{"text":"With his night-cap and his night-shirt tatters,He botches up the loop-holes in the structure of the world.","author":"Heinrich Heine","tags":["art","creation","inspiration","loopholes","meaning","metaphysics","philosophy","production","speculation","world-view"],"id":117182,"author_id":"Heinrich+Heine"},{"text":"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 are scarcely more substantial. The search will continue. Not until the empirical resources are exhausted, need we pass on to the dreamy realms of speculation.","author":"Edwin Powell Hubble","tags":["astronomy","boundary","distance","empirical","errors","knowledge","landmarks","limits","measure","resources","science","scientific-method","search","shadows","space","speculation","substantial","telescopes","universe"],"id":140958,"author_id":"Edwin+Powell+Hubble"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":38,"pages":4,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}