...there is no substantive basis for predictions of sizeable global warming due to observed increases in minor greenhouse gases such as carbon… — Richard Lindzen Copy Share Image
“Correct predictions result in understanding. Incorrect predictions result in confusion and prompt you to pay attention.” — Steven Kotler Copy Share Image
A bird is an instrument working according to mathematical law, which instrument it is within the capacity of man to reproduce with… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Experimental confirmation of a prediction is merely a measurement. An experiment disproving a prediction is a discovery. — Enrico Fermi Copy Share Image
If you are in trouble anywhere in the world, an airplane can fly over and drop flowers, but a helicopter can land… — Igor Sikorsky Copy Share Image
The first company to produce a certified two seat electric aircraft with a 1.5 hour range will dominate the aviation training market. — Erik Lindbergh Copy Share Image
“But though predictions may be wrong, they are right about the people who voice them, not about their future but about their… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
The abdomen, the chest, and the brain will forever be shut from the intrusion of the wise and humane surgeon. — John Eric Erichsen Copy Share Image
We hope to create thousands of astronauts over the next few years and bring alive their dream of seeing the majestic beauty… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
Each morning the day lies like a fresh shirt on our bed; this incomparably fine, incomparably tightly woven tissue of pure prediction… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
The game of investing is one of making better predictions about the future than other people. How are you going to do… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
Our spiritual life is a life in which we wait, actively present to the moment, expecting that new things will happen to… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
I believe that only short-term price swings can be predicted with any precision. The accuracy of a prediction drops off dramatically, the… — Linda Bradford Raschke Copy Share Image
During the next 50 years, in countless cycles, in countless entrepreneurial companies, this let's just go and do it mentality will help… — Peter Diamandis Copy Share Image
I have had the feeling that a properly constructed flying-machine should be capable of being flown as a kite; and conversely, that… — Alexander Graham Bell Copy Share Image
Every lawyer of experience comes to know (more or less unconsciously) that in the great majority of cases, the precedents are none… — Jerome Frank Copy Share Image
Although our eyes can not penetrate the darkness of the future, scientific geopolitical analysis enables us to make certain predictions. — Karl Haushofer Copy Share Image
A prediction about the direction of the stock market tells you nothing about where stocks are headed, but a whole lot about… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
The prediction of nuclear winter is drawn not, of course, from any direct experience with the consequences of global nuclear war, but… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
I take no pleasure in the fact that the scientific predictions I've relayed to popular audiences turn out to be true. — Al Gore Copy Share Image
The only useful function of a statistician is to make predictions, and thus to provide a basis for action. — W. Edwards Deming Copy Share Image
The prediction that glaciers will be gone from Glacier National Park has been moved up by 10 years to 2020, the same… — Bill Kurtis Copy Share Image
Would you bet your paycheck on a weather forecast for tomorrow? If not, then why should this country bet billions on global… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
I have seen some astrologers who predicted wonderful things; but I have no reason to believe they predicted them only from the… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
It does not matter who you are, or how smart you are, or what title you have, or how many of you… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
Music is art, and art is important and rare. Important, rare things are valuable. Valuable things should be paid for. It’s my… — Taylor Swift Copy Share Image
A theory is a good theory if it satisfies two requirements: it must accurately describe a large class of observations on the… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
It is apparent to me that the possibilities of the aeroplane, which two or three years ago were thought to hold the… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
Our creationist detractors charge that evolution is an unproved and unprovable charade — a secular religion masquerading as science. They claim, above… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Market studies suggest space tourism-a rubbernecker's trip to earth orbit-is likely to draw 50,000 passengers a year if the ticket can be… — G. Harry Stine Copy Share Image
Before the current decade ends, fee-paying passengers will be experiencing suborbital flights aboard privately funded vehicles. . . . It won't be… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
“people who spend their time, and earn their living, studying a particular topic produce poorer predictions than dart-throwing monkeys who would have… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
But Friedman seemed to share Friedrich Hayek's extreme and inaccurate view that socialism of the sort that Britain embraced under the old… — Richard Posner Copy Share Image
Nature has color-coded groups of individuals so that statistically reliable predictions of their adaptability to intellectually rewarding and effective lives can easily… — William Shockley Copy Share Image
People ask me what my predictions are for publishing and how digital is changing things and I tell them my only real… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
most economists, like doctors, are reluctant to make predictions, and those who make them are seldom accurate. The economy, like the human… — Alice Rivlin Copy Share Image
Quantification, experimentation, rigor, repetition, prediction - all of these are part of the experimental sciences. There's an iconography also namely man, and… — Richard Lewontin Copy Share Image
I want to make rockets 100 times, if not 1,000 times better. The ultimate objective is to make humanity a multiplanet species.… — Elon Musk Copy Share Image
I now have had my foggy crystal ball for quite a long time. Its predictions are invariably gloomy and usually correct, but… — Edsger Dijkstra Copy Share Image
It's illegitimate to talk about a post-scarcity Utopia without talking about questions of distribution. There have always been these Utopian predictions -… — Mitch Kapor Copy Share Image