The future is itself a story, and predictions are stories we tell to amaze ourselves, to give hope to the desperate, to… — David Remnick Copy Share Image
With a Trump administration we don't know enough yet to make predictions, but if past behavior is any indication, I am not… — Mariana Mazzucato Copy Share Image
“Smyth’s predictions of the date of the Second Coming, as with everyone else’s predictions of this event, have proved inaccurate.” — David J. Hand Copy Share Image
Four predictions of the Big Bang Theory have now been verified - surely enough to quench even the most biased critics. — Joseph Silk Copy Share Image
Men who have worked together to reach the stars are not likely to descend together into the depths of war and desolation. — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
Space travel will be like every other business. There will be competitors. . . . Thirty months from now, I'm confident we'll… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
Our sun enlightens the planets that belong to him; why may not every fixed star also have planets to which they give… — Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle Copy Share Image
Business success is less a function of grandiose predictions than it is a result of being able to respond rapidly to real… — Jack Welch Copy Share Image
Eventually we must leave Earth-at least a certain number of our progeny must as our sun approaches the end of its solar… — Edgar Mitchell Copy Share Image
Across the gulf of centuries, the blind smile of Homer is turned upon our age. Along the echoing corridors of time, the… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
Using an artful tool does not make one a dry technician. It seems to me that people that are anxious about our… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
Many, and some of the most pressing, of our terrestrial problems can be solved only by going into space. Long before it… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
Some of the most wonderful aspects and consequences of evolution have been discovered only recently. This is in stark contrast to creationism,… — Bill Nye Copy Share Image
So we went to Atari and said, 'Hey, we've got this amazing thing, even built with some of your parts, and what… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
The first real air-liner, carrying some five or six hundred passengers, will probably appear after or towards the end of the battle… — Oliver Stewart Copy Share Image
“As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great… — H.L. Mencken Copy Share Image
A hundred years ago, Auguste Compte, ... a great philosopher, said that humans will never be able to visit the stars, that… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
Historical science is not worse, more restricted, or less capable of achieving firm conclusions because experiment, prediction, and subsumption under invariant laws… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
I hold that in the flight of the soaring birds (the vultures, the eagles, and other birds which fly without flapping) ascension… — Louis Pierre Mouillard Copy Share Image
As soon as somebody demonstrates the art of flying, settlers from our species of man will not be lacking [on the Moon… — Johannes Kepler Copy Share Image
Well I'm not making predictions. But the point I can - what I can say to you to contribute to your thinking… — George Brandis Copy Share Image
Sir, Your letter of the 15th is received, but Age has long since obliged me to withhold my mind from Speculations of… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
They have likewise discovered two lesser stars, or satellites, which revolve around Mars, whereof the innermost is distant from the center of… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Speculators are obsessed with predicting: guessing the direction of stock prices. Every morning on cable television, every afternoon on the stock market… — Seth Klarman Copy Share Image
No technique is possible when men are free. Technique requires predictability and, no less, exactness of prediction. It is necessary, then, that… — Jacques Ellul 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
We're mortal, yet without a known expiration date. It's an inevitable fate worthy of acceptance, but not deserving of predictions. — Joe Peterson Copy Share Image
I cannot give any assurances. I'm not in that business. I haven't been, and I don't intend to get into it. People… — Donald Rumsfeld Copy Share Image
I accept that climate change is a challenge, I accept the broad theory about global warming. I am sceptical about a lot… — John Howard Copy Share Image
There is not the slightest indication that nuclear energy will ever be obtainable. It would mean that the atom would have to… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The cinema is little more than a fad. It's canned drama. What audiences really want to see is flesh and blood on… — Charlie Chaplin Copy Share Image
The aeroplane is an invention of the devil and will never play any part in such a serious business as the defence… — Sam Hughes 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
If my fans think I can do everything I say I can do, then they're crazier than I am. After one of… — Muhammad Ali Copy Share Image
The time will come when man will know even what is going on in the other planets and perhaps be able to… — Henry Ford Copy Share Image
I believe the new machine of the Wrights to be the most promising attempt at flight that has yet been made. — Octave Chanute Copy Share Image
We need to stop, and admit it: we have a prediction problem. We love to predict things—and we aren’t very good at… — Nate Silver Copy Share Image
If I had thought about it, I wouldn't have done the experiment. The literature was full of examples that said you can't… — Spencer Silver Copy Share Image
Berkshireis in the business of making easy predictions If a deal looks too hard, the partners simply shelve it. — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
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