“The future is like a corridor into which we can see only by the light coming from behind.” — Edward Weyer Jr Copy Share Image
“When we advance more confident claims and they fail to come to fruition, this constitutes much more powerful evidence against our hypothesis.… — Nate Silver Copy Share Image
“People think--wrongly--that speculative fiction is about predicting the future, but it isn’t; or if it is, it tends to do a rotten… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Life is no different than the weather. Not only is it unpredictable, but it shows us a new perspective of the world… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
Whenever you try to pick market tops and bottoms, you are making a prediction. Guessing what stock is going to outperform the… — Barry Ritholtz Copy Share Image
If I would need to make a prediction I still believe Kaplan's scenario is very plausible. — David Korten Copy Share Image
“Some prediction change the people they think about the world and some make them bigotry.” — Shesh Nath Vernwal Copy Share Image
“You know the logics setup. You got a logic in your house. It looks like a vision receiver used to, only it's… — Murray Leinster Copy Share Image
“If a palmist grasp my palm, and look into it, without seeing a single line, what would he read?” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
“I use the example as computed by the mathematician Michael Berry. If you know a set of basic parameters concerning the ball… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
“One can talk good and shower down roses, but it's the receiver that has to walk through the thorns, and all its… — Anthony Liccione Copy Share Image
“It sounds like a fairy-tale, but not only that; this story of what man by his science and practical inventions has achieved… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Prediction by analogy -creativity - is so pervasive we normally don't notice it. — Jeff Hawkins Copy Share Image
“The gray-haired growser, who proved to be a lawyer, had made it clear how much he loathed the people who were, in… — John Brunner Copy Share Image
There is no justifiable prediction about how the hypothesis will hold up in the future; its degree of corroboration simply is a… — Robert Nozick Copy Share Image
“Recent brain scans have shed light on how the brain simulates the future. These simulation are done mainly in the dorsolateral prefrontal… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
The Fifties and Sixties were years of unreal optimism about weather forecasting. Newspapers and magazines were filled with hope for weather science,… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
Although almost every theoretical physicist agrees with my prediction that a black hole should glow like a hot body, it would be… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
