It is easy to obtain confirmations, or verifications, for nearly every theory-if we look for confirmations. Confirmations should count only if they… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
The way to fly is to go straight up . . . Such a machine (the helicopter) will never compete with the… — Emile Berliner Copy Share Image
If you go by other people's opinions or predictions, you'll just end up talking yourself out of something. If you're running down… — Carl Lewis Copy Share Image
U.S. has lost a battle more important and greater than Pearl Harbor. — Edward Teller Copy Share Image
I've had only one idea in my life - a true idee fixe. To put it as bluntly as possible - the… — B. F. Skinner Copy Share Image
Any believable prediction will be wrong. Any correct prediction will be unbelievable. — Kevin Kelly Copy Share Image
Despite all the dire predictions made in 2001, the Afghans have given the international community, its aid workers and soldiers a large… — Ahmed Rashid Copy Share Image
Jeff Selingo is one of the most respected observers of American higher education...Not all will agree with his observations, conclusions, predictions and… — David J. Skorton Copy Share Image
Astrological prayers seem to me to be built on as good reason as the predictions. — Benjamin Stillingfleet Copy Share Image
The only basis for even talking about global warming is the predictions spewed out by computer models. The only quote/unquote "evidence" of… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Im generally considered a conservative in my predictions for disease. — Anthony S. Fauci Copy Share Image
I don't give a score prediction, but I am a defensive guy, so I'll definitely be looking forward to a defensive game. — J. J. Watt Copy Share Image
Ender nodded. It was a lie, of course, that it wouldn’t hurt a bit. But since adults always said it when it… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
He that can swim needs not despair to fly; to swim is to fly in a grosser fluid, and to fly is… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
There's no point in making predictions. It's not worth speculating because nothing is set in stone and things change all the time… — Cristiano Ronaldo Copy Share Image
Wayne Gretzky's talent doesn't come from studying everything he's experienced in hockey and making long-term game plans. It comes from constantly taking… — Kevin Maney Copy Share Image
Predictions that unit cohesion could not survive honesty about sexual orientation were simply wrong. What does threaten morale arethe prolonged investigations, the… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
When we think that the machine will harm man, then it is perhaps because we are not yet capable of judging the… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
“I just love it when the weather man gets it wrong. It always makes me smile knowing that He controls the reins… — Reena Doss Copy Share Image
There are flying grandfathers. But I intend to be an orbiting grandfather. — Wernher von Braun Copy Share Image
the truth and value of a theory does not depend on the number of people who are interested in it - otherwise… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
The first man-made satellite to orbit the earth was named Sputnik. The first living creature in space was Laika. The first rocket… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Every day I make predictions that don't come anywhere close to the mark. — Joe Posnanski Copy Share Image