Predictions Quotes · Page 8

There are no practical alternatives to air transportation.

— Daniel Goldin

“Tetlock’s words, even when their predictions prove.”

— Steven D. Levitt

As for the depiction of the Catholic church, it's not meant to be a prediction

— Dan Simmons

Dreams, and predictions of astrology…ought to serve but for winter talk by the fireside.

— Francis Bacon

Mass travel by air may prove to be more significant to world destiny than the atom bomb.

— Juan Trippe

Stocks have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau.

— Irving Fisher

Im generally considered a conservative in my predictions for disease.

— Anthony S. Fauci

Never believe a prediction that does not empower you.

— Sean Stephenson

I was really interested to see whether we could make predictions or forecasts by listening in on what people were saying on…

— Noreena Hertz

How many times has the end of the world been predicted? The same number of times the prediction has proved false.

— Hugh Downs

This is my prediction for the future: Whatever hasn't happened will happen, and no one will be safe from it.

— John B. S. Haldane

I've been around since I was 19, I won the Oscar when I was 21, I've had a couple of TV series.…

— Marlee Matlin

There is no hope for the fanciful idea of reaching the moon because of insurmountable barriers to escaping the earth's gravity

— Forest Ray Moulton

As chairman of the Senate subcommittee responsible for NASA appropriations, I say not a penny for this nutty fantasy.

— William Proxmire

The helicopter has never achieved much success and . . .may be classes with the ornithopter as obsolete.

— Oliver Stewart

Rail travel at high speed is not possible because passengers, unable to breathe, would die of asphyxia.

— Dionysius Lardner

God is infinite, so His universe must be too. Thus is the excellence of God magnified and the greatness of His kingdom…

— Anonymous

My prediction is that in the same way that Google is an intent revealing service that can be monetized that way, I…

— Jason Kilar

One of the predictions that I was the first to make is now materializing, and that prediction was that Obama isn't going…

— Rush Limbaugh

At first we will only skim the surface of the earth like young starlings, but soon, emboldened by practice and experience, we…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

All the scientist creates in a fact is the language in which he enunciates it. If he predicts a fact, he will…

— Henri Poincare

There has been a great deal said about a 3,00-mile high-angle rocket. The people who have been writing these things that annoy…

— Vannevar Bush

There is no basis for the ardent hopes and positive statements made as to the safe and successful use of the dirigible…

— George W. Melville

I see that the life of this place is always emerging beyond expectation or prediction or typicality, that it is unique, given…

— Wendell Berry

I've had only one idea in my life - a true idee fixe. To put it as bluntly as possible - the…

— B. F. Skinner

. . . in America, we have achieved the Orwellian prediction - enslaved, the people have been programmed to love their bondage…

— Gerry Spence

But does Man have any 'right' to spread through the universe? Man is what he is, a wild animal with the will…

— Robert A. Heinlein

Trying to predict the future is a discouraging and hazardous occupation. If by some miracle a prophet could describe the future exactly…

— Arthur C. Clarke

It is about a period in aviation which is now gone, but which was probably more interesting than any the future will…

— Charles Lindbergh

Science gains from it [the pendulum] more than one can expect. With its huge dimensions, the apparatus presents qualities that one would…

— Anonymous

Astrology ... makes vague predictions that can always be adapted after the fact to fit observations, as we'll see. Astrologers don't seek…

— Phil Plait

Beyond Words is an exceptionally useful and inspiring digest of Dzogchen (Great Perfection) teachings and the teachers associated with them. The ancient…

— Tsultrim Allione

Eventually everyone will have the opportunity to travel onto space.

— Lance Bass

I'd be doing Oscar predictions months ahead of time, and not only for the Oscars, for the Grammys. This is just what…

— Billy Eichner

So you see, in the end, it is nearly certain that the power of prediction must triumph over the arrogance of elegance.

— Robert Haugen

Having established that good ideas do indeed come in from the cold, start on the fringes and become mainstream, can we make…

— Nigel Farage

At a university they had the freshman class make the same predictions that some of the well-known psychics do every year, and…

— Frederick Lenz

To consider the Earth as the only populated world in infinite space is as absurd as to assert that in an entire…

— Metrodorus of Chios

I have learned not to do predictions. It's not helpful, psychologically. I don't sit and fret about things.

— Mumia Abu-Jamal

Here’s my prediction: Ninety percent of what everyone will drink will be red wine, and one of the biggest markets will be…

— Kevin Zraly