The resemblance of the signs of the zodiac to the animals after which they are named... is as unimpressive as the predictions… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
If the search is for examples that contradict the predictions of standard economic models, a good rule of thumb is to start… — Robert H. Frank Copy Share Image
Bishop Wilkins prophesied that the time would come when gentlemen, when they were to go on a journey, would call for their… — Maria Edgeworth Copy Share Image
The contradictory remarks of politicians are forgotten; the more asinine predictions of pundits are buried with mercy. — Norman Mailer 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
There is not the slightest indication that nuclear energy will ever be obtainable. It would mean that the atom would have to… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I accept that climate change is a challenge, I accept the broad theory about global warming. I am sceptical about a lot… — John Howard Copy Share Image
The cinema is little more than a fad. It's canned drama. What audiences really want to see is flesh and blood on… — Charlie Chaplin Copy Share Image
[I predict] the electricity generated by water power is the only thing that is going to keep future generations from freezing. Now… — Charles Proteus Steinmetz Copy Share Image
The book known by the name of the Apocalypse, has seemed to be until now unintelligible, merely because people persisted to see… — Charles-Francois Dupuis Copy Share Image
I try not to make predictions, things happen when they are supposed to happen. 'Im 19. I should be in college, I… — Emma Stone Copy Share Image
Whenever you try to pick market tops and bottoms, you are making a prediction. Guessing what stock is going to outperform the… — Barry Ritholtz Copy Share Image
I’ve been doing this a long time, and I’ve come to learn that predictions don’t mean much. Too much lies outside the… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
You look at these past predictions like there's only a market in the world for five computers [as allegedly said by IBM… — Geoffrey Hinton Copy Share Image
Let me state what the official IPCC prediction is: Sea levels could go up as much as three-quarters of a meter in… — Steven Chu Copy Share Image
As the Olympic torch neared Lake Placid, N.Y., in 1980, signaling the opening of that year's Winter Olympics, newspapers and magazines throughout… — Don Yaeger Copy Share Image
We're mortal, yet without a known expiration date. It's an inevitable fate worthy of acceptance, but not deserving of predictions. — Joe Peterson Copy Share Image
I cannot give any assurances. I'm not in that business. I haven't been, and I don't intend to get into it. People… — Donald Rumsfeld Copy Share Image
I believe the new machine of the Wrights to be the most promising attempt at flight that has yet been made. — Octave Chanute Copy Share Image
The time will come when man will know even what is going on in the other planets and perhaps be able to… — Henry Ford Copy Share Image
And as for Mixed Mathematics, I may only make this prediction, that there cannot fail to be more kinds of them, as… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
If my fans think I can do everything I say I can do, then they're crazier than I am. After one of… — Muhammad Ali Copy Share Image
The aeroplane is an invention of the devil and will never play any part in such a serious business as the defence… — Sam Hughes Copy Share Image
But we must admit the possibility that continued investigation and experience will bring us ever nearer to that solemn moment, when the… — Otto Lilienthal 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
I say, technically, I don't think anyone in the world knows how to do such a thing. and I feel confident it… — Vannevar Bush Copy Share Image
You don't need to predict the future. Just choose a future -- a good future, a useful future -- and make the… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Development of the space station is as inevitable as the rising of the sun; man has already poked his nose into space… — Wernher von Braun Copy Share Image
Human nature is not amenable to prediction based on the trends or tendencies prevailing at the time. It is amenable to startling… — Maurice Saatchi Copy Share Image
“SUBJECT: FALSE PREDICTIONS RE: STUMBLER Classified by DCM Frank Ingersoll for reasons 1.4 (c) and (d). ¶1. (C) Summary and Key points:… — Anonymous 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
My friends they were dancing here in the streets of Huntsville when our first satellite orbited the Earth. They were dancing again… — Wernher von Braun Copy Share Image
“I knew by the signs it would be a hard winter. The hollies bore a heavy crop of berries and birds stripped… — Sarah Micklem Copy Share Image
Because of recent improvements in the accuracy of theoretical predictions based on large scale ab initio quantum mechanical calculations, meaningful comparisons between… — Yuan T. Lee Copy Share Image
When you have a perfect free market, it's difficult to predict the future. But when you have a market that is disturbed… — Marc Faber Copy Share Image
I believe, sir, in all the progress. Air navigation is the result of the oceanic navigation: from water the human has to… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“most importantly, this prediction is less of a prophecy and more a way of discussing our present choices. If the discussion makes… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
When the number of factors coming into play in a phenomenological complex is too large scientific method in most cases fails. One… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I hate to make predictions, but I think the economy is going to be permanently changed for the worse. I think our… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
In the late 1960s, there were alarming predictions that worldwide famine was around the corner. I wondered if humans had already lost… — Frances Moore Lappé Copy Share Image