I am frequently astonished that it so often results in…

My colleagues in elementary particle theory in many lands [and I] are driven by the usual insatiable curiosity of the scientist, and our work…

— Murray Gell-Mann

Do not put too much confidence in experimental results until they have been confirmed by theory.

— Arthur Eddington

“Correct predictions result in understanding. Incorrect predictions result in confusion and prompt you to pay attention.”

— Steven Kotler

[The unreactivity of the noble gas elements] belongs to the surest of experimental results.

— Friedrich Paneth

“people often make correct predictions on the basis of erroneous beliefs and defective prediction strategies.”

— Lee Ross

The future is itself a story, and predictions are stories we tell to amaze ourselves, to give hope to the desperate, to jolt the…

— David Remnick

I've ceased making predictions on things because we'll see how they turn out.

— David Plouffe

The usefulness of the models in constructing a testable theory of the process is severely limited by the quickly increasing number of parameters which…

— Anatol Rapoport

“The most essential prediction of Darwinism is that, given an astronomical number of chances, unintelligent processes can make seemingly-designed systems, ones of the complexity…

— Michael J. Behe

One of the things that I think we have learned is that we should all be very careful about making predictions about the future.

— William J. Clinton

I'm going to make a prediction - it could go either way.

— Ron Atkinson

I have been in relatively high-risk businesses all of my adult life. Few of the others, however, had the possibility of direct gains in…

— Neil Armstrong

The one prediction that never comes true is, 'You'll thank me for telling you this.

— Judith Martin

With high hope for the future, no prediction is ventured.

— Abraham Lincoln

The prediction of nuclear winter is drawn not, of course, from any direct experience with the consequences of global nuclear war, but rather from…

— Carl Sagan