A bird is an instrument working according to mathematical law, which instrument it is within the capacity of man to reproduce with… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Would you bet your paycheck on a weather forecast for tomorrow? If not, then why should this country bet billions on global… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
The prediction that glaciers will be gone from Glacier National Park has been moved up by 10 years to 2020, the same… — Bill Kurtis Copy Share Image
The only useful function of a statistician is to make predictions, and thus to provide a basis for action. — W. Edwards Deming Copy Share Image
A prediction about the direction of the stock market tells you nothing about where stocks are headed, but a whole lot about… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
The prediction of nuclear winter is drawn not, of course, from any direct experience with the consequences of global nuclear war, but… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
I take no pleasure in the fact that the scientific predictions I've relayed to popular audiences turn out to be true. — Al Gore Copy Share Image
Really exotic methods of propulsion . . . will have to be devised to get there. How it will be done, I… — Edward Teller Copy Share Image
Almost all of the many predictions now being made about 1996 hinge on the internet's continuing exponential growth. But I predict the… — Robert Metcalfe Copy Share Image
We have this very clean picture of science, you know, these well-established rules with which we make predictions. But when you're really… — Lisa Randall Copy Share Image
It is entirely impossible for man to rise into the air and float there. For this you would need wings of tremendous… — Jerome Lalande Copy Share Image
Gu was a worrier, a neurotic curmudgeon. If he had a headache, it was a brain tumor; if it looked like rain,… — Max Brooks Copy Share Image
The labor of rising from the ground will be great, ... but as we mount higher, the earth's attraction, and the body's… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Each artist comes to the painting or sculpture because there he can be told that he, the individual, transcends all classes and… — Ben Shahn Copy Share Image
I first came into the labor force in 1941 when the minimum wage was 40 cents an hour, and that was my… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
I have been in relatively high-risk businesses all of my adult life. Few of the others, however, had the possibility of direct… — Neil Armstrong Copy Share Image
As the journalists of the time phased it, this was the epoch of the Leap into the Air. The new atomic aeroplane… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
Most of Marx's predictions have failed to materialize, and his labor theory of value and other ideas have been proven wrong. Marx… — Mark Skousen Copy Share Image
Beyond Words is an exceptionally useful and inspiring digest of Dzogchen (Great Perfection) teachings and the teachers associated with them. The ancient… — Tsultrim Allione Copy Share Image
Astrology ... makes vague predictions that can always be adapted after the fact to fit observations, as we'll see. Astrologers don't seek… — Phil Plait Copy Share Image
Science gains from it [the pendulum] more than one can expect. With its huge dimensions, the apparatus presents qualities that one would… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The choice, as Wells once said, is the Universe-or nothing. . . . The challenge of the great spaces between the worlds… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
Trying to predict the future is a discouraging and hazardous occupation. If by some miracle a prophet could describe the future exactly… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
It is about a period in aviation which is now gone, but which was probably more interesting than any the future will… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
If I am going to trash others for their dumb predictions, I must at least hold myself to the same sort of… — Barry Ritholtz Copy Share Image
When we hear a prediction of some disaster we need to throw the entire weight of our positive thought in the opposite… — Peace Pilgrim Copy Share Image
I'm not trying to frighten you, but only a fool makes predictions based on ignorance; I am not that sort of fool. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
The real reason why general relativity is widely accepted is because it made predictions that were borne out by experimental observations. — Brian Greene 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
As for my prediction that this phone would be a bad idea for Apple to pursue, anything can still happen. Time is… — John C. Dvorak 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
Is it not demonstrated that a true flying machine, self-raising, self-sustaining, self-propelling, is physically impossible? — Joseph LeConte Copy Share Image
By the year 2000 we will undoubtedly have a sizable operation on the Moon, we will have achieved a manned Mars landing… — Wernher von Braun Copy Share Image
“Predictions often give us an illusion of control in situations that are inherently out of our control. Nothing exemplifies this better than… — Heidi Cullen Copy Share Image
[Airmail was] an impractical sort of fad, and had no place in the serious job of postal transportation. — Paul Henderson Copy Share Image
The Art of Flying is but newly invented, twill improve by degrees, and in time grow perfect; then we may fly as… — Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle Copy Share Image
Predictions can sound really good if you're good with words and can express them eloquently and give people ideas and inspiration in… — Steve Wozniak Copy Share Image
Our sun enlightens the planets that belong to him; why may not every fixed star also have planets to which they give… — Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle Copy Share Image
Space travel will be like every other business. There will be competitors. . . . Thirty months from now, I'm confident we'll… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
No technique is possible when men are free. Technique requires predictability and, no less, exactness of prediction. It is necessary, then, that… — Jacques Ellul Copy Share Image
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