Tetlock’s words, even when their predictions prove.

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

“As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious…

— H.L. Mencken

The only useful function of a statistician is to make predictions, and thus to provide a basis for action.

— W. Edwards Deming

A model is a good model if first it interprets a wide range of observations in terms of a simple and elegant model, and…

— Stephen Hawking

The shape of the heaven is of necessity spherical; for that is the shape most appropriate to its substance and also by nature primary.

— Aristotle

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

If the search is for examples that contradict the predictions of standard economic models, a good rule of thumb is to start in France.

— Robert H. Frank