Business success is less a function of grandiose predictions than it is a result of being able to respond rapidly to real… — Jack Welch Copy Share Image
I predicted in August that Celtic would reach the final. On the eve of that final I stand by that prediction. — Archie Macpherson Copy Share Image
It is not predictions but plans that make the future. If you want predictions, it is because you do not have the… — Jaggi Vasudev Copy Share Image
Life, forever dying to be born afresh, forever young and eager, will presently stand upon this Earth as upon a footstool, and… — H. G. Wells 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
“We tend to overestimate the effect of a technology in the short run and underestimate the effect in the long run.” — Roy Amara Copy Share Image
Supersonic airplanes have carried men at more than 2,000 miles per hour and there are reasons to believe that this speed will… — Igor Sikorsky 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
Science is one of a handful of things that defines us as a very special species. It is amazing how far we… — Yuri Milner Copy Share Image
A model is a good model if first it interprets a wide range of observations in terms of a simple and elegant… — Stephen Hawking 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
We made it. Despite the fear and predictions of doom. We made it. Even though there were days when we were tired… — Ron Atchison Copy Share Image
I couldn't tell fact from fiction, Or if the dream was true My only sure prediction In this world was you. I'd… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The machine may even carry mail is special cases. But the useful load will be very small. The machines will eventually be… — Octave Chanute Copy Share Image
A scientist naturally and inevitably ... mulls over the data and guesses at a solution. He proceeds to testing of the guess… — Edwin Powell Hubble Copy Share Image
We will eventually build space science labs and hotels, prodding the capability for missions beyond the orbit of the Earth. Our space-hotel… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
. . . in America, we have achieved the Orwellian prediction - enslaved, the people have been programmed to love their bondage… — Gerry Spence Copy Share Image
But does Man have any 'right' to spread through the universe? Man is what he is, a wild animal with the will… — Robert A. Heinlein 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
I know that some knowledgeable people fear that although we might be willing to spend a couple of billion dollars in 1958,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
These proven positive consequences of elevated CO2 are infinitely more important than the unsubstantiated predictions of apocalypse that are hypothesized to result… — Keith E. Idso Copy Share Image
To the possible enquiry as to the probable character of a successful flying machine, the writer would answer that in his judgment… — Octave Chanute Copy Share Image
Darius was clearly of the opinion That the air is also man's dominion, And that, with paddle or fins or pinion, We… — John Townsend Trowbridge Copy Share Image
One of the things that I think we have learned is that we should all be very careful about making predictions about… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
One day the stars will be as familiar to each man as the landmarks, the curves, and the hills on the road… — Beryl Markham Copy Share Image
Men who have worked together to reach the stars are not likely to descend together into the depths of war and desolation. — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
“Smyth’s predictions of the date of the Second Coming, as with everyone else’s predictions of this event, have proved inaccurate.” — David J. Hand Copy Share Image
Four predictions of the Big Bang Theory have now been verified - surely enough to quench even the most biased critics. — Joseph Silk Copy Share Image
With a Trump administration we don't know enough yet to make predictions, but if past behavior is any indication, I am not… — Mariana Mazzucato Copy Share Image
In my opinion, poets talk through the symptoms of disease. These symptoms of disease are predictions, screams, and songs. — Kim Hyesoon Copy Share Image
The future is itself a story, and predictions are stories we tell to amaze ourselves, to give hope to the desperate, to… — David Remnick Copy Share Image
In reality, no one knows what the market will do; trying to predict it is a waste of time, and investing based… — Seth Klarman Copy Share Image
Berkshireis in the business of making easy predictions If a deal looks too hard, the partners simply shelve it. — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
We would never get away from it. ... It's bad enough as it is, but with the wireless telephone one could be… — Mihajlo Idvorski Pupin Copy Share Image
If I had thought about it, I wouldn't have done the experiment. The literature was full of examples that said you can't… — Spencer Silver Copy Share Image
We need to stop, and admit it: we have a prediction problem. We love to predict things—and we aren’t very good at… — Nate Silver Copy Share Image
I have yet to see a successful prediction about the physical world that was inferred or extrapolated from the content of any… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
The Air Corps . . . does not, at this time, feel justified in obligating . . . funds for basic jet propulsion research and experimentation. — George Brett Copy Share Image
Quantum mechanics broke the mold of the previous framework, classical mechanics, by establishing that the predictions of science are necessarily probabilistic. — Brian Greene Copy Share Image
I think political science is bad at prediction. We don't gaze into a crystal ball. I do not believe that we predict… — Ian Bremmer Copy Share Image
