Any believable prediction will be wrong. Any correct prediction will be unbelievable. — Kevin Kelly Copy Share Image
The future is better dealt with using assumptions than forecasts. — Russell L. Ackoff Copy Share Image
We have the same problem as everyone else: It's very hard to predict the future. — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
A nice blend of prediction and surprise seem to be at the heart of the best art. — Wendy Carlos Copy Share Image
“«“Looks like your sci-fi prediction came true right away, Xavier.” “That can be gratifying,” mused the novelist. “But not all the time.”»” — Bruce Sterling Copy Share Image
To understand the difficulty of predicting the next 100 years, we have to appreciate the difficulty that the people of 1900 had… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
Nobody wants a prediction that the future will be more or less like the present, even if that is, statistically speaking, an… — Nathan Myhrvold Copy Share Image
For me to sit down here, even as a Nobel Laureate and make a prediction about which science I think that will… — Ahmed H. Zewail Copy Share Image
The consequences of our actions are so complicated, so diverse, that predicting the future is a very difficult business indeed_Albus Dumbledore. — JK Rowling Copy Share Image
“It is difficult and even dangerous to make predictions—especially about the future—of the bilateral relationship.” — Patrick Mendis Copy Share Image
Forecasting is a maddening occupation. It is always fascinating and exciting and rewarding. yet it is also regularly exasperating and infuriating, occasionally… — Edgar Fiedler Copy Share Image
Till facts are grouped & called there can be no prediction. The only advantage of discovering laws is to foretell what will… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
The Fifties and Sixties were years of unreal optimism about weather forecasting. Newspapers and magazines were filled with hope for weather science,… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
“Cultural products will spread faster and wider when everybody can see what everybody else is doing. It suggests that the future of… — Derek Thompson Copy Share Image
In order to sharpen its prediction skills, our brains constantly build models, or 'templates,' of the world. The better the template, the… — Daphne Bavelier Copy Share Image
There is no example of someone reading their scripture and saying, 'I have a prediction about the world that no one knows… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“Our world is increasingly complex, often chaotic, and always fast-flowing. This makes forecasting something between tremendously difficult and actually impossible, with a… — Andrew McAfee Copy Share Image
Predictions of the future are never anything but projections of present automatic processes and procedures, that is, of occurrences that are likely… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
Prediction from a grown-up: Your future is going to be amazing. You will surprise yourself with what you're capable of and the… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
They believed that prediction was just a function of keeping track of things. If you knew enough, you could predict anything. That's… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
“I remember when we found the first population of living Cerion agassizi in central Eleuthera. Our hypothesis of Cerion's general pattern required… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
“You know the logics setup. You got a logic in your house. It looks like a vision receiver used to, only it's… — Murray Leinster Copy Share Image
“Recent brain scans have shed light on how the brain simulates the future. These simulation are done mainly in the dorsolateral prefrontal… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
“The purpose of a thought-experiment, as the term was used by Schrödinger and other physicists, is not to predict the future -… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“Simply put, the representation of events in the media does not track their frequency in the world. As sociologist Barry Glassner notes,… — Brian Christian Copy Share Image
We don't gaze into a crystal ball. I do not believe that we predict things. I think political science is bad at… — Ian Bremmer Copy Share Image
“The predicted USA aurora was a bust! The solar radiation definitely arrived, as people had strange fatigue and pains in Oregon, USA… — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
“The present writer had occasion, some time ago, to call attention to the succession of layers of "laws of nature," each layer… — Eugene Wigner Copy Share Image
