Most loss of life and property has been due to the collapse of antiquated and unsafe structures, mostly of brick and other… — Charles Francis Richter Copy Share Image
Witness this new-made world, another Heav'n From Heaven Gate not farr, founded in view On the clear Hyaline, the Glassie Sea; Of… — John Milton Copy Share Image
While I remain troubled by the Corps' inability to fully justify the Model they used for their commercial traffic predictions, America clearly… — Ron Kind Copy Share Image
New York to Tokyo could be less than an hour. You could be traveling at 19,000 miles per hour orbitally. After we've… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
The abdomen, the chest, and the brain will forever be shut from the intrusion of the wise and humane surgeon. — John Eric Erichsen Copy Share Image
How many times has the end of the world been predicted? The same number of times the prediction has proved false. — Hugh Downs Copy Share Image
We do have tendency, now in biology especially to make up stories, to make theoretical biology a kind of game, in fact… — Richard Lewontin Copy Share Image
...there is no substantive basis for predictions of sizeable global warming due to observed increases in minor greenhouse gases such as carbon… — Richard Lindzen Copy Share Image
This is my prediction for the future: Whatever hasn't happened will happen, and no one will be safe from it. — John B. S. Haldane Copy Share Image
Science is not, despite how it is often portrayed, about absolute truths. It is about developing an understanding of the world, making… — Brian Schmidt 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
For decades, people have known the chemical-propulsion approach to space travel is really not going to get us that far. Chemical propulsion… — Franklin Chang Diaz Copy Share Image
As soon as somebody demonstrates the art of flying, settlers from our species of man will not be lacking [on the Moon… — Johannes Kepler Copy Share Image
In less than twenty-five years . . . the motor-car will be obsolete, because the aeroplane will run along the ground as… — Philip Gibbs Copy Share Image
To set foot on the soil of the asteroids, to lift by hand a rock from the Moon, to observe Mars from… — Konstantin Tsiolkovsky Copy Share Image
All those predictions about how much economic growth will be created by this, all of those new jobs, would be created by… — Anthony Weiner 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
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
“The more interviews that an expert had done with the press, Tetlock found, the worse his predictions tended to be.” — Nate Silver Copy Share Image
It makes no sense to seek a single best way to represent knowledge-because each particular form of expression also brings its particular… — Marvin Minsky Copy Share Image
Although our eyes can not penetrate the darkness of the future, scientific geopolitical analysis enables us to make certain predictions. — Karl Haushofer Copy Share Image
The frontier in space, embodied in the space colony, is one in which the interactions between humans and their environment is so… — Rusty Schweickart 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
Very much, string theory is simply a work in progress. What we are inching toward every day are predictions that within the… — Brian Greene Copy Share Image
The theory of the earth is the science which describes and explains changes that the terrestrial globe has undergone from its beginning… — Horace-Benedict de Saussure Copy Share Image