Quotes and Sayings About Predictions
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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 RapoportSource : Anatol Rapoport, Albert M. Chammah (1965). “Prisoner's Dilemma: A Study in Conflict and Cooperation”, p.150, University of Michigan Press
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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 NersesianSource : Arthur Nersesian (2009). “The Fuck Up”, p.4, Simon and Schuster
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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 GurleySource : "Gurley and Om" by Fred Wilson, www.businessinsider.com. December 13, 2012.
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The only thing that we know about financial predictions of start-ups is that 100 percent of them are wrong
-- Brad FeldSource : Brad Feld, Jason Mendelson (2016). “Venture Deals: Be Smarter Than Your Lawyer and Venture Capitalist”, p.26, John Wiley & Sons
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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 -
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 HansenSource : "Game Over for the Climate". www.nytimes.com. May 9, 2012.
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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 HawkinsSource : Jeff Hawkins, Sandra Blakeslee (2007). “On Intelligence”, p.6, Macmillan