Any astronomer can predict with absolute accuracy just where every star in the universe will be at 11.30 tonight. He can make… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The prediction I can make with the highest confidence is that the most amazing discoveries will be the ones we are not… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
I have discovered that a screw-shaped device such as this, if it is well made from starched linen, will rise in the… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Social Security has been effective for 70 years; prior predictions of its demise have been totally overstated. — Grace Napolitano Copy Share Image
The only thing that we know about financial predictions of start-ups is that 100 percent of them are wrong — Brad Feld Copy Share Image
The United States of America has no intention of finishing second in space. This effort is expensive-but it pays its way for… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
The important prediction is not the automobile, but the parking problem; not radio, but the soap opera; not the income tax, but… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Ships and sails proper for the heavenly air should be fashioned. Then there will also be people, who do not shrink from… — Johannes Kepler Copy Share Image
Was it - was she making a real prediction?' Dumbledore looked mildly impressed. 'Do you know, Harry, I think she might have… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Aerial flight is one of that class of problems with which man will never be able to cope. . . . The… — Simon Newcomb Copy Share Image
I believe that we are going to have a much deeper appreciation of what kinds of abnormalities in cancer cells and in… — Harold E. Varmus Copy Share Image
The usefulness of the models in constructing a testable theory of the process is severely limited by the quickly increasing number of… — Anatol Rapoport Copy Share Image
Without wishing to damp the ardor of curiosity or influence the freedom of inquiry, I will hazard a prediction that, after the… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Predictions of the future are never anything but projections of present automatic processes and procedures, that is, of occurrences that are likely… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
And then, the Earth being small, mankind will migrate into space, and will cross the airless Saharas which separate planet from planet… — William Winwood Reade Copy Share Image
Wayne Gretzky's talent doesn't come from studying everything he's experienced in hockey and making long-term game plans. It comes from constantly taking… — Kevin Maney Copy Share Image
The choice, as Wells once said, is the Universe-or nothing. . . . The challenge of the great spaces between the worlds… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
My colleagues in elementary particle theory in many lands [and I] are driven by the usual insatiable curiosity of the scientist, and… — Murray Gell-Mann Copy Share Image
I may be expediting the attainment of an object that will in time be found of great importance to mankind; so much… — George Cayley Copy Share Image
Now companies tend to mine gigantic databases for insights into what might happen six months from now. That might always be valuable,… — Kevin Maney Copy Share Image
In this age of inventive wonders all men have come to believe that in some genius' brain sleeps the solution of the… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“The most essential prediction of Darwinism is that, given an astronomical number of chances, unintelligent processes can make seemingly-designed systems, ones of… — Michael J. Behe Copy Share Image
The universe will finally become a ball of radiation, becoming more and more rarified and passing into longer and longer wave-lengths. The… — Arthur Eddington Copy Share Image
Well, gentlemen, do you believe in the possibility of aerial locomotion by machines heavier than air? ... You ask yourselves doubtless if… — Jules Verne Copy Share Image
To date, no convincing evidence for AGW (anthropogenic global warming) has been discovered. And recent global climate behavior is not consistent with… — Richard Courtney Copy Share Image
Prediction is not just one of the things your brain does. It is the primary function of the neo-cortex, and the foundation… — Jeff Hawkins Copy Share Image
Science is progressing at such a rapid rate that when you make a prediction and think you are ahead of your time… — Leo Szilard Copy Share Image
The past is democratic, because it is a people. The future is despotic, because it is a caprice. Every man is alone… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
I never try to make any far-reaching predictions, so much can happen that it simply only makes you look stupid a few… — Linus Torvalds Copy Share Image
“Burning bridges behind you is understandable. It's the bridges before us that we burn, not realizing we may need to cross, that… — Anthony Liccione Copy Share Image
If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false. — M. H. Abrams Copy Share Image
One day the stars will be as familiar to each man as the landmarks, the curves, and the hills on the road… — Beryl Markham Copy Share Image
One of the things that I think we have learned is that we should all be very careful about making predictions about… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
Darius was clearly of the opinion That the air is also man's dominion, And that, with paddle or fins or pinion, We… — John Townsend Trowbridge Copy Share Image
“We tend to overestimate the effect of a technology in the short run and underestimate the effect in the long run.” — Roy Amara Copy Share Image
Supersonic airplanes have carried men at more than 2,000 miles per hour and there are reasons to believe that this speed will… — Igor Sikorsky Copy Share Image
It is highly unlikely that an airplane, or fleet of them, could ever sink a fleet of Navy vessels under battle conditions. — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Life, forever dying to be born afresh, forever young and eager, will presently stand upon this Earth as upon a footstool, and… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
One may say that predictions are dangerous particularly for the future. If the danger involved in a prediction is not incurred, no… — Edward Teller Copy Share Image
In my opinion, poets talk through the symptoms of disease. These symptoms of disease are predictions, screams, and songs. — Kim Hyesoon Copy Share Image