Predictions Quotes · Page 3

The whole procedure [of shooting rockets into space] . . . presents difficulties of so fundamental a nature, that we are forced…

— Richard van der Riet Woolley

Without wishing to damp the ardor of curiosity or influence the freedom of inquiry, I will hazard a prediction that, after the…

— John Adams

I am saying that all predictions concerning climate are highly uncertain.

— Freeman Dyson

Science gains from it [the pendulum] more than one can expect. With its huge dimensions, the apparatus presents qualities that one would…

— Anonymous

Flight out of the atmosphere is a simple thing to do and should have been available to the public twenty years ago.…

— Burt Rutan

Ships and sails proper for the heavenly air should be fashioned. Then there will also be people, who do not shrink from…

— Johannes Kepler

Across the gulf of centuries, the blind smile of Homer is turned upon our age. Along the echoing corridors of time, the…

— Arthur C. Clarke

Our problem today is, the society in which we live in suffer from realising that we underestimate our own brain power and…

— Heleina Cowan

There is always something to worry about. Avoid weekend thinking and ignoring the latest dire predictions of the newscasters. Sell a stock…

— Peter Lynch

I suppose we shall soon travel by air-vessels; make air instead of sea voyages; and at length find our way to the…

— Lord Byron

To date, no convincing evidence for AGW (anthropogenic global warming) has been discovered. And recent global climate behavior is not consistent with…

— Richard Courtney

Television won't last because people will soon get tired of staring at a plywood box every night.

— Darryl F. Zanuck

The Air Corps . . . does not, at this time, feel justified in obligating . . . funds for basic jet propulsion research and experimentation.

— George Brett

Really exotic methods of propulsion . . . will have to be devised to get there. How it will be done, I…

— Edward Teller

Whatever happens, happens. I can't give you a prediction because Jim (Irsay) and I will sit down at some point and he'll…

— Peyton Manning

It is only fair to admit, however, that my batting average in the crystal ball league is point, zero, zero, zero.

— Leslie Ford

We want to build colonies on the Moon, Mars, the Moons of other planets, and even nearby asteroids. We want to make…

— Daniel Goldin

Rail travel at high speed is not possible because passengers, unable to breathe, would die of asphyxia.

— Dionysius Lardner

The helicopter has never achieved much success and . . .may be classes with the ornithopter as obsolete.

— Oliver Stewart

Contrary to popular accounts, very few scientists in the world - possibly none - have a sufficiently thorough, 'big picture' understanding of…

— Roy Spencer

The fact that we have been able to develop a successful science, which issues in ever more accurate predictions and broader explanations,…

— Hilary Kornblith

Rule 1. Original data should be presented in a way that will preserve the evidence in the original data for all the…

— Walter A. Shewhart

Einstein does not remain attached to the classical principles, and when presented with a problem in physics he quickly envisages all of…

— Henri Poincare

I don't like to make predictions, because my life's been pretty unpredictable so far.

— Kaya Scodelario

Gu was a worrier, a neurotic curmudgeon. If he had a headache, it was a brain tumor; if it looked like rain,…

— Max Brooks