de Broglie's seminal paper was mostly speculative but got published

"There is of course one final observation to be made: in terms of the present politics of publishing scientific papers, de Broglie's contribution could never have been published because it only essentially contains speculations. However, one can just as well say that this paper proves that speculations are an essential part of physics; without them no new ideas and theories are born. Quantum mechanics has to be regarded as a true rupture in the history of physics, as a revolution in the philosophy of science – a revolution that desperately needed speculations and deviations beyond well-accepted ways of thinking. It pays off to come back occasionally to one of the famous papers in the Philosophical Magazine!"

A quote from P. Weinberger:

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