Predictions quotes
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Weather abroad and weather in the heart alike come on Regardless of prediction.
-- Adrienne Rich -
I take no pleasure in the fact that the scientific predictions I've relayed to popular audiences turn out to be true.
-- Al Gore -
The usefulness of the models in constructing a testable theory of the process is severely limited by the quickly increasing number of parameters which must be estimated in order to compare the predictions of the models with empirical results.
-- Anatol Rapoport -
My track record is pretty good on predictions.
-- Ann Coulter -
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Im generally considered a conservative in my predictions for disease.
-- Anthony S. Fauci -
The exploration of the planets is now closer to us in time than the exploration of Africa by Stanley and Livingstone.
-- Arthur C. Clarke -
When I was in my teens, I made an appraisal of how comfortable my life could turn out when I became the age I am now. Because of a mechanical failure, the prediction was inexact.
-- Arthur Nersesian -
Oh well, I suppose lots of people will do it now.
-- Arthur Whitten Brown -
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Science is not about making predictions or performing experiments. Science is about explaining.
-- Bill Gaede -
You can't make money with a consensus accurate prediction
-- Bill Gurley -
The only thing that we know about financial predictions of start-ups is that 100 percent of them are wrong
-- Brad Feld -
I do not think that a flight across the Atlantic will be made in our time, and in our time I include the youngest readers.
-- Charles Rolls -
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I never said I will stand, I said I hoped to stand. It wasn't a prediction.
-- Christopher Reeve -
There are no practical alternatives to air transportation.
-- Daniel Goldin -
If the facts are contrary to any predictions, then the hypothesis is wrong no matter how appealing.
-- David Douglass -
Rail travel at high speed is not possible because passengers, unable to breathe, would die of asphyxia.
-- Dionysius Lardner -
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One very important aspect of string theory is definitely testable. That was the prediction of supersymmetry, which emerged from string theory in the early '70s.
-- Edward Witten -
An experiment disproving a prediction is discovery.
-- Enrico Fermi -
Science is prediction, not explanation.
-- Fred Hoyle -
Prediction is a very difficult business, particularly about the future
-- Fred Singer -
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The problem is not one of prediction. It is one of imagination.
-- Gary Hamel -
Hope is not a prediction of the future, it's a declaration of what is possible.
-- Harbhajan Singh Yogi -
This fellow Charles Lindbergh will never make it. He's doomed.
-- Harry Frank Guggenheim -
You can predict all you want, but everybody knows what predictions get you.
-- Hope Solo -
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The aeroplane is tragically unsuited for ocean service.
-- Hugo Eckener -
No technique is possible when men are free.... Technique requires predictability and, no less, exactness of prediction. It is necessary, then, that technique prevail over the human being.
-- Jacques Ellul -
Global warming isn't a prediction. It is happening.
-- James Hansen -
A very friendly boom, like a pair of gleeful handclaps.
-- James Lighthill -
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To squander a fortune in public money, billions and billions, stubbornly carrying on with a Concorde we can only sell to ourselves.
-- Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber -
It is the ability to make predictions about the future that is the crux of intelligence.
-- Jeff Hawkins -
My biggest prediction for the future is that people are going to start looking after individual investors.
-- John C. Bogle -
I don't read, much less follow, the valuations or predictions. I study the numbers.
-- John Neff -
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The one prediction that never comes true is, 'You'll thank me for telling you this.
-- Judith Martin -
A plan is an example of what could happen, not a prediction of what will happen.
-- Kent Beck -
I have discovered that a screw-shaped device such as this, if it is well made from starched linen, will rise in the air if turned quickly.
-- Leonardo da Vinci -
I never make a prediction that can be proved wrong within 24 hours.
-- Louis Rukeyser -
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
-- M. H. Abrams -
A prediction, in a field where prediction is not possible, is no more than a prejudice.
-- Malcolm Gladwell -
Making predictions is like throwing a dartboard at the fixture list
-- Mike Parry -
I have learned not to do predictions. It's not helpful, psychologically. I don't sit and fret about things.
-- Mumia Abu-Jamal -
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I am frequently astonished that it so often results in correct predictions of experimental results.
-- Murray Gell-Mann -
We need to stop, and admit it: we have a prediction problem. We love to predict things—and we aren’t very good at it.
-- Nate Silver -
The thing that people associate with expertise, authoritativeness, kind of with a capital 'A,' don't correlate very well with who's actually good at making predictions.
-- Nate Silver -
We want to get 80%-85% of predictions right, not 100%. Or else we calibrated our estimates in the wrong way.
-- Nate Silver -
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Nobody wants a prediction that the future will be more or less like the present, even if that is, statistically speaking, an excellent prediction.
-- Nathan Myhrvold -
It is very difficult to make an accurate prediction, especially about the future.
-- Niels Bohr -
Prediction is difficult, especially the future.
-- Niels Bohr -
I never make predictions and I never will.
-- Paul Gascoigne -
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That's not a prediction, that's a spoiler.
-- Paul Heyman -
Politics is not predictions and politics is not observations. Politics is what we do. Politics is what we do, politics is what we create, by what we work for, by what we hope for and what we dare to imagine.
-- Paul Wellstone -
The aeroplane will never fly.
-- Richard Haldane, 1st Viscount Haldane -
My predictions are notably inaccurate
-- Robert Caro -
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What do you call an economist with a prediction? Wrong.
-- Robert Kuttner -
The more unpredictable the world is the more we rely on predictions.
-- Steve Rivkin -
All buildings are predictions. All predictions are wrong.
-- Stewart Brand -
When you have two competing theories that make exactly the same predictions, the simpler one is the better.
-- William of Ockham -
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Perhaps the safest prediction we can make about the future is that it will surprise us.
-- George Leonard -
It's always difficult to make predictions about the future.
-- Hermann E. Ott -
Every lawyer of experience comes to know (more or less unconsciously) that in the great majority of cases, the precedents are none too good as bases of prediction. Somehow or other, there are plenty of precedents to go around.
-- Jerome Frank -
We're mortal, yet without a known expiration date. It's an inevitable fate worthy of acceptance, but not deserving of predictions.
-- Joe Peterson -
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For me to sit down here, even as a Nobel Laureate and make a prediction about which science I think that will be a mistake.
-- Ahmed H. Zewail -
...paranormal phenomena such as apports, prediction, telepathy, dowsing and the like can be explained by an extended physics as potentially real effects.
-- Ron Pearson -
We must prove our predictions about the future with action.
-- George Jackson -
I've learned that the best political reporters never make predictions!
-- Jodi Kantor -
