John M. Grunsfeld

When I grew up as a kid, we didn't know there were any other planets outside of our own solar system. It was widely speculated that planet formation was an incredibly rare event and that it's possible that other planets just don't exist in our galaxy, and it's just this special situation where we happen to have planets around our sun.

American Astronaut

Karan Singh Grover

If I had my way, I wouldn't be sharing my personal life online. I'm a private person. At home, I don't wander around shirtless, flexing my muscles. I roam around unshaven, with my hair disheveled. Unfortunately, people perceive you differently. It's okay; they're free to speculate.

Indian Actor

Robert Kennedy

The ultimate relationship between justice and law will be an eternal subject for speculation and analysis. But it may be said that in a democratic society, law is the form which free men give to justice.

American Politician

Jeb Bush

It's a complex relationship when your dad happened to be president and you are president and then you have all the amateur psychology that goes on when people try to speculate about motivations.

Ken Salazar

I don't think anyone can speculate what will happen with respect to oil prices and gas prices because they are set on the global economy.

James Wan

The great thing about the 'Fast and Furious' world is everything is up for speculation. Yes, anything is a possibility.

Australian Producer

Oneohtrix Point Never

Science fiction to me is the ultimate art form, because it speculates on bodies and worlds that don't exist.

American Musician

Jeff Kober

The opposite of speculation is to be present to the world simply as it is.

American Actor

Karan Patel

My life is an open book. You're welcome to speculate.

Nargis Fakhri

I'm tired of the speculation about my personal life.

American Actress

Use 'speculate' when imagining scenarios without proof or evidence.

Hypothetical Thought

Speculate does not confirm anything, it expresses uncertainty.

Avoid as Fact

Use when expressing curiosity or pondering about mysterious topics.

Curiosity Expression

Highlight the risk and chance of loss involved in financial speculation.

Risky Investments

Emphasize the goal to make a profit in commercial speculation.

Profit Motive

In business, 'speculate' often involves timing market trends for gain.

Market Timing

Used for developing unproven theories in academic or scientific contexts.

Academic Theories

Indicates that there's no confirmatory evidence to support the speculation.

Evidential Uncertainty

Often used when making an educated guess based on some knowledge.

Educated Guessing

 Without its inventor to keep it on track, the test he had methodically gathered so much data to support began to be used in all sorts of speculative ways. Researchers gave the test to Nazi war criminals, hoping to unlock the psychological roots of mass murder. Anthropologists showed the images to remote communities

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 called "thought experiments." He'd just let his mind wander and drift off and speculate about. He was always obsessed, right from his youth-- what if I could travel as fast as the speed of light? What would light look like, next to me? Now, I'm imagining that the ball is traveling in deep space.

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 we have to play through until it reaches a natural stopping point, "ella, ella, ella." But this is largely speculation. The basic fact remains we don't know exactly why we're susceptible to earworms. But understanding them better could give us important clues to the workings of the human brain.

Earworms: Those songs...

 but as a mental condition similar to depression. Psychologists of the time speculated that it represented difficulties letting go of childhood, or even a longing to return to one's fetal state. But over the next few decades, the understanding of nostalgia changed in two important ways.

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 they have different vocabularies, and they also have different structures -- very importantly, different structures. That begs the Does the language we speak shape the way we think? Now, this is an ancient question. People have been speculating about this question forever.

How language shapes the...

 and his passion for literature. But what about peace? Because Nobel's name was tied to inventions used in the war industry, many have assumed that he created the peace prize out of regret. However, this is all speculation as he never expressed any such sentiments,

How does the Nobel Peace...

 water in its hold, and lifeboats missing. The discovery of its intact cargo and a captain's log that ended abruptly led to wild rumors and speculation. But the real culprits were two scientific buoyancy and fluid dynamics.

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 okay so my artwork is heavily influenced by my background in architecture and you're going to see that in the work that I'm showing you I creates speculative architectural interventions

Art and architecture...

 that everything in the world was made up of tiny particles surrounded by empty space. And he even speculated that they vary in size and shape depending on the substance they compose.

The 2,400-year search...

 rarely witnessed so we can only speculate why it's occurred perhaps it shows the extreme length the pendant will go to in order to defend their territory

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