Science and technology developed as different and separate activities, the former being for several millennia a field of fairly abstruse speculation practiced by a class of aristocratic philosophers, while the latter remained a matter of essentially practical concern to craftsmen of many types.
She particularly focuses on the intertwined nature of pharmaceutical industry speculation and speculative practices found in Nigerian drug markets.
"They tried to bury us," read a sign held by one of the students, "they didn't realize we were seeds". Both medicine and racial justice are acts of speculation; their practices are inextricable from the practice of imagining.
But for a few years, I had the chance to put speculation into practice.
The constant attention paid to the written word not only can isolate human beings from one another and speculation from practice, but also can induce a kind of idolatry.
But before Japan's economy imploded under the triple whammy of real estate speculation, shady banking practices and the adoption of American "lean and mean" business ideology, its high corporate tax rate was widely viewed as positive.
Because the mission of the Farm Aid concert itself is also to raise awareness – the organization also receives money from donors as well as fundraising efforts throughout the year – Fahy says more public speculation about the practices in which Americans get their food will help pressure lawmakers to do the right thing.
It was important for him to demonstrate this harmony with respect to all the topics that led up to the question under consideration, but it is essential with respect to free will, because here philosophical speculation and religious practice intertwine.
A zeal for different opinions concerning religion, concerning government, and many other points, as well of speculation as of practice; an attachment to different leaders ambitiously contending for pre-eminence and power..
His opposition to regulation allowed Wall Street and the banks to engage in rampant speculation and insider trading, practices that were not curbed until Joseph Kennedy was appointed head of the new Securities and Exchange Commission by Franklin Roosevelt to ban the very practices he himself had employed.
