Should the research worker of the future discover some means of releasing this [atomic] energy in a form which could be employed,… — Francis William Aston Copy Share Image
Prediction? The Democrats will win. I think it will be a close win, both for the House and for the Senate. — John Dingell Copy Share Image
“Someday, with the right man in the White House, there will be a Department of Jesus, yes and a Secretary of Jesus.…… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
“She gave a little sob deep in her throat. 'Call it a prophecy, call it a prediction, call it fate - call… — Cornell Woolrich Copy Share Image
“You see life is predictable. What you do with your time now will dictate how your life will become tomorrow.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
“I predict: Discernment will become the number one leadership competency of the century — the age of misinformation. Discernment is a learnable… — Richie Norton Copy Share Image
“I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time -- when the United States is a service and… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
One SF prediction that I would like very much to see: Get solar collectors launched to beam energy back home, and get… — Jack McDevitt Copy Share Image
In the year 1456 ... a Comet was seen passing Retrograde between the Earth and the sun... Hence I dare venture to… — Edmond Halley Copy Share Image
“In a world with amazing amounts of statistics and demographics available, If you don't utilize foresight, statistics, demographics, projections and predictions the… — Akutra-Ramses Atenosis Cea Copy Share Image
“If you were destined to be a poet, then you won't brainstorm for lines that rhymes. If you were destined to be… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
I try not to get involved in the business of prediction. It's a quick way to look like an idiot. — Warren Ellis Copy Share Image
“...the ratings agencies' problem was in being unable or uninterested in appreciating the distinction between risk and uncertainty.” — Nate Silver Copy Share Image
Prediction is structurally inseparable from the business of punditry: It creates the essential image of indefatigable authority that is punditry's very architecture;… — Rick Perlstein Copy Share Image
“Interviews were invented to make journalism less passive. Instead of waiting for something to happen, journalists ask someone what should or could… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“It is very difficult to predict what other humans will do, and considerably more difficult to anticipate the behaviour of aliens.” — James Cambias Copy Share Image
“That Muhammad could predict certain events does not prove that he was a prophet: he may have been able to guess successfully,… — Muhammad al Warraq Copy Share Image
“If Apple were to grow the iPod into a cell phone with a web browser, Microsoft would be in big trouble.” — Paul Graham Copy Share Image
“Prediction and explanation are exactly symmetrical. Explanations are, in effect, predictions about what has happened; predictions are explanations about what's going to… — John Rogers Searle Copy Share Image
“«“Looks like your sci-fi prediction came true right away, Xavier.” “That can be gratifying,” mused the novelist. “But not all the time.”»” — Bruce Sterling Copy Share Image
“Insights from data can be invaluable as feedback for decision-making, but should never be confused with being a proxy for the future,… — Roger Spitz Copy Share Image
There is no example of someone reading their scripture and saying, 'I have a prediction about the world that no one knows… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image