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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
When the number of factors coming into play in a phenomenological complex is too large scientific method in most cases fails. One… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I hate to make predictions, but I think the economy is going to be permanently changed for the worse. I think our… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
In the late 1960s, there were alarming predictions that worldwide famine was around the corner. I wondered if humans had already lost… — Frances Moore Lappé Copy Share Image
Both angels and demons are ignorant of the future, yet they make predictions. The angels do so when God reveals the future… — John of Damascus Copy Share Image
If there is a lesson in our story it is that the manipulation, according to strictly self-consistent rules, of a set of… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
It is not the bigness of anything in this kind that can hinder its motion, if the motive faculty be answerable thereunto.… — John Wilkins Copy Share Image
Legends of prediction are common throughout the whole Household of Man. Gods speak, spirits speak, computers speak. Oracular ambiguity or statistical probability… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
How can it fail to smash and shatter the petty provincialism and narrow nantionalism ... making of this world a tragic mosaic… — Juan Trippe Copy Share Image
Most loss of life and property has been due to the collapse of antiquated and unsafe structures, mostly of brick and other… — Charles Francis Richter Copy Share Image
Despite all the dire predictions made in 2001, the Afghans have given the international community, its aid workers and soldiers a large… — Ahmed Rashid Copy Share Image
Any prediction worth its weigh would consider the spiritual, material, and unintended consequences of introducing a new technology to the world. It… — Stephanie Mills Copy Share Image
If we do our homework right, never again should an asteroid that can do damage on the ground impact the Earth. We're… — Rusty Schweickart Copy Share Image
Predictions are uttered by prophets (free of charge); by clairvoyants (who usually charge a fee, and are therefore more honored in their… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
The way to fly is to go straight up . . . Such a machine (the helicopter) will never compete with the… — Emile Berliner Copy Share Image
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