“Just because a prediction is true, doesn't mean that it is not false.” — Lionel Suggs Copy Share Image
It is very difficult to make an accurate prediction, especially about the future. — Niels Bohr Copy Share Image
I try not to get involved in the business of prediction. It's a quick way to look like an idiot. — Warren Ellis Copy Share Image
I never make a prediction that can be proved wrong within 24 hours. — Louis Rukeyser Copy Share Image
I never said I will stand, I said I hoped to stand. It wasn't a prediction. — Christopher Reeve Copy Share Image
Future forecasting is all about testing strategies - it's like a wind tunnel. — Jamais Cascio Copy Share Image
One SF prediction that I would like very much to see: Get solar collectors launched to beam energy back home, and get… — Jack McDevitt Copy Share Image
In the year 1456 ... a Comet was seen passing Retrograde between the Earth and the sun... Hence I dare venture to… — Edmond Halley Copy Share Image
Prediction? The Democrats will win. I think it will be a close win, both for the House and for the Senate. — John Dingell Copy Share Image
I have yet to see a successful prediction about the physical world that was inferred or extrapolated from the content of any… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I think political science is bad at prediction. We don't gaze into a crystal ball. I do not believe that we predict… — Ian Bremmer Copy Share Image
There is no formula that will guarantee success in forecasting, no magic words that will part the clouds. The real problem, as… — Edgar Fiedler Copy Share Image
Forecasting is simply not a strength of the species; we are much better with tools and narrative storytelling. — Barry Ritholtz Copy Share Image
“Prediction and explanation are exactly symmetrical. Explanations are, in effect, predictions about what has happened; predictions are explanations about what's going to… — John Rogers Searle Copy Share Image
“Nowhere is the nexus between statistics and data science stronger than in the realm of prediction — specifically the prediction of an… — Peter Bruce Copy Share Image
“When we advance more confident claims and they fail to come to fruition, this constitutes much more powerful evidence against our hypothesis.… — Nate Silver Copy Share Image
It may happen that small differences in the initial conditions produce very great ones in the final phenomena. A small error in… — Henri Poincare Copy Share Image
“Chase said, “It was a crazy idea.” An impossible idea. “Nothing is impossible, Chase, only improbable. And when you can see into… — Adrienne Wilder Copy Share Image
You look at these past predictions like there's only a market in the world for five computers [as allegedly said by IBM… — Geoffrey Hinton Copy Share Image
Whenever you try to pick market tops and bottoms, you are making a prediction. Guessing what stock is going to outperform the… — Barry Ritholtz Copy Share Image
You don't need to predict the future. Just choose a future -- a good future, a useful future -- and make the… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Human nature is not amenable to prediction based on the trends or tendencies prevailing at the time. It is amenable to startling… — Maurice Saatchi Copy Share Image
The goal of forecasting is not to predict the future but to tell you what you need to know to take meaningful… — Paul Saffo Copy Share Image
And as for Mixed Mathematics, I may only make this prediction, that there cannot fail to be more kinds of them, as… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Predicting recessions is indeed a dark art, but I think we are several years away from the next one. — Mark Zandi Copy Share Image
People often say that it is easier to predict the way things are going to be 10 to 20 years in the… — Mark Zuckerberg Copy Share Image
“as Clarke himself has emphasized, it is virtually impossible to predict the details of future technologies for more than perhaps half a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“people often make correct predictions on the basis of erroneous beliefs and defective prediction strategies.” — Lee Ross Copy Share Image
It is not predictions but plans that make the future. If you want predictions, it is because you do not have the… — Jaggi Vasudev Copy Share Image
I predicted in August that Celtic would reach the final. On the eve of that final I stand by that prediction. — Archie Macpherson Copy Share Image
“the prediction of the future is not distinguished from an evaluation of current evidence—prediction matches evaluation. This is perhaps the best evidence… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
“...the ratings agencies' problem was in being unable or uninterested in appreciating the distinction between risk and uncertainty.” — Nate Silver Copy Share Image
One may say that predictions are dangerous particularly for the future. If the danger involved in a prediction is not incurred, no… — Edward Teller Copy Share Image
If you make a certain type of statement, you can make a pretty good prediction of how George Steinbrenner will react. — John W. Henry Copy Share Image
Prediction just means you saw where the world might be going: ho-hum. Influence, though - ah. Influence, direct and acknowledged, means you… — Robin Sloan Copy Share Image
“It is very difficult to predict what other humans will do, and considerably more difficult to anticipate the behaviour of aliens.” — James Cambias Copy Share Image
But I don't think I have any particular talent for prediction, because when you have three or four elements in hand, you… — Antonio Tabucchi Copy Share Image
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