Space travel is utter bilge. I don't think anybody will ever put up enough money to do such a thing. . .… — Richard van der Riet Woolley Copy Share Image
Wouldn't you like to contribute to an event that is part of Christ's own prediction, "I will build my church"? — Charles R. Swindoll Copy Share Image
We are both disturbed and fascinated by visions of bleak futures, predictions of what might come if we as a society aren't… — Marie Lu Copy Share Image
“What all the wise men promised has not happened, and what all the damned fools said would happen has come to pass.” — Lord Melbourne Copy Share Image
Whenever people have used religious documents to make accurate predictions about our base knowledge of the physical world, they have been famously… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
In 1999, I said that in about a decade we would see technologies such as self-driving cars and mobile phones that could… — Ray Kurzweil Copy Share Image
A cookie store is a bad idea. Besides, the market research reports say America likes crispy cookies, not soft and chewy cookies… — Debbi Fields Copy Share Image
I did grow up watching Buck Rogers and Buck Rogers didn't stop at Mars. In my lifetime, I will be incredibly disappointed… — Charles Bolden Copy Share Image
Even present-day fuels possess more than enough energy, if only we knew how to release and use it. Just as molecular energy… — P. E. Cleator Copy Share Image
Railroad carriages are pulled at the enormous speed of fifteen miles per hour by engines which, in addition to endangering life and… — Martin Van Buren Copy Share Image
Although I'm not prepared to move up my prediction of a computer passing the Turing test by 2029, the progress that has… — Ray Kurzweil Copy Share Image
We do have tendency, now in biology especially to make up stories, to make theoretical biology a kind of game, in fact… — Richard Lewontin Copy Share Image
Evolutionary theory tends to explain quite well in retrospect how various species emerged. It's not very good on prediction. Nevertheless, one cannot… — Kenneth Arrow Copy Share Image
How the media covers [Donald] Trump-Hillary [Clinton]? Who knows yet how it's gonna manifest itself, but I guarantee you a lot of… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
The funny thing is, I sometimes get the impression that some people outside of the field think that there's some element of… — Brian Greene Copy Share Image
Politics is not predictions and politics is not observations. Politics is what we do. Politics is what we do, politics is what… — Paul Wellstone Copy Share Image
I love fashion because it's plugged into the zeitgeist, so it's always changing. Thirty years ago, I could never have predicted I'd… — Michael Kors Copy Share Image
We don't even know what species are out there, for the most part, particularly when you get down to the microbes and… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
We are all youthful barbarians, and only our new toys bring us excitement. That has been the sole purpose of our flights.… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
Prophecy and prescience - How can they be put to the test in the face of unanswered questions? Consider: How much is… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
The next 15 years will see thousands of people leave the atmosphere on suborbital flights. My company's SS2 system might fly 100,000… — Burt Rutan Copy Share Image
It is, I believe, justifiable to make the generalization that anything an organic chemist can synthesize can be made without him. All… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Science is about predictions based on predictable fact. Life is about surprises based on the unpredictable reality. — Ori Hofmekler Copy Share Image
We are coming into a new era of flight, an ear in which all past conception of time and distance is changing… — Allan Haines Loughead Copy Share Image
A day will come when beings, now latent in our thoughts and hidden in our loins, shall stand upon Earth as a… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
I am pretty specialized in people who pass over. Predictions are not my thing. Every medium is a psychic and every psychic… — James Van Praagh Copy Share Image
Big data is mostly about taking numbers and using those numbers to make predictions about the future. The bigger the data set… — Anthony Goldbloom Copy Share Image
In less than twenty-five years . . . the motor-car will be obsolete, because the aeroplane will run along the ground as… — Philip Gibbs Copy Share Image
I'm not trying to frighten you, but only a fool makes predictions based on ignorance; I am not that sort of fool. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
The real reason why general relativity is widely accepted is because it made predictions that were borne out by experimental observations. — Brian Greene Copy Share Image
Really exotic methods of propulsion . . . will have to be devised to get there. How it will be done, I… — Edward Teller Copy Share Image
When we hear a prediction of some disaster we need to throw the entire weight of our positive thought in the opposite… — Peace Pilgrim Copy Share Image
If I am going to trash others for their dumb predictions, I must at least hold myself to the same sort of… — Barry Ritholtz Copy Share Image
By the year 2000 we will undoubtedly have a sizable operation on the Moon, we will have achieved a manned Mars landing… — Wernher von Braun Copy Share Image
The Art of Flying is but newly invented, twill improve by degrees, and in time grow perfect; then we may fly as… — Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle Copy Share Image
[Airmail was] an impractical sort of fad, and had no place in the serious job of postal transportation. — Paul Henderson Copy Share Image
“Predictions often give us an illusion of control in situations that are inherently out of our control. Nothing exemplifies this better than… — Heidi Cullen Copy Share Image
Predictions can sound really good if you're good with words and can express them eloquently and give people ideas and inspiration in… — Steve Wozniak Copy Share Image
Is it not demonstrated that a true flying machine, self-raising, self-sustaining, self-propelling, is physically impossible? — Joseph LeConte Copy Share Image
As for my prediction that this phone would be a bad idea for Apple to pursue, anything can still happen. Time is… — John C. Dvorak Copy Share Image