How can it fail to smash and shatter the petty provincialism and narrow nantionalism ... making of this world a tragic mosaic… — Juan Trippe Copy Share Image
Legends of prediction are common throughout the whole Household of Man. Gods speak, spirits speak, computers speak. Oracular ambiguity or statistical probability… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Most loss of life and property has been due to the collapse of antiquated and unsafe structures, mostly of brick and other… — Charles Francis Richter 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
If we do our homework right, never again should an asteroid that can do damage on the ground impact the Earth. We're… — Rusty Schweickart Copy Share Image
Any prediction worth its weigh would consider the spiritual, material, and unintended consequences of introducing a new technology to the world. It… — Stephanie Mills Copy Share Image
Predictions are uttered by prophets (free of charge); by clairvoyants (who usually charge a fee, and are therefore more honored in their… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Both angels and demons are ignorant of the future, yet they make predictions. The angels do so when God reveals the future… — John of Damascus Copy Share Image
If there is a lesson in our story it is that the manipulation, according to strictly self-consistent rules, of a set of… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
It is not the bigness of anything in this kind that can hinder its motion, if the motive faculty be answerable thereunto.… — John Wilkins Copy Share Image
Most successful pundits are selected for being opinionated, because it's interesting, and the penalties for incorrect predictions are negligible. You can make… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
The distance between the earth and her satellite is a mere trifle, and undeserving of serious consideration. I am convinced that before… — Jules Verne Copy Share Image
I won this poll thing in England about predictions, and it was all these journalists and reporters trying to say that I… — Corinne Bailey Rae Copy Share Image
It may happen that small differences in the initial conditions produce very great ones in the final phenomena. A small error in… — Henri Poincare 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
The aeroplane. . . is not capable of unlimited magnification. It is not likely that it will ever carry more than five… — Waldemar Kaempffert Copy Share Image
Letters to the editors of English and American newspapers often contain expressions of horror about the new terms that creep into the… — Peter Farb Copy Share Image
Nothing will stop us. The road to the stars is steep and dangerous. But we're not afraid . . . Space flights… — Yuri Gagarin 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
Now my playmates never failed to wink and smile mockingly at me when one of them called 'Man flies!' for at the… — Alberto Santos-Dumont Copy Share Image
Although humans today remain more capable than machines for many tasks, by 2030 machine capabilities will have increased to the point that… — Werner J. A. Dahm Copy Share Image
There will be a new industry, and we are just now in the beginning. I will predict that in twelve or fifteen… — Burt Rutan Copy Share Image
It does not matter who you are, or how smart you are, or what title you have, or how many of you… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
I have seen some astrologers who predicted wonderful things; but I have no reason to believe they predicted them only from the… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Music is art, and art is important and rare. Important, rare things are valuable. Valuable things should be paid for. It’s my… — Taylor Swift Copy Share Image
Every lawyer of experience comes to know (more or less unconsciously) that in the great majority of cases, the precedents are none… — Jerome Frank Copy Share Image
I want to make rockets 100 times, if not 1,000 times better. The ultimate objective is to make humanity a multiplanet species.… — Elon Musk Copy Share Image
I now have had my foggy crystal ball for quite a long time. Its predictions are invariably gloomy and usually correct, but… — Edsger Dijkstra Copy Share Image
most economists, like doctors, are reluctant to make predictions, and those who make them are seldom accurate. The economy, like the human… — Alice Rivlin Copy Share Image
Quantification, experimentation, rigor, repetition, prediction - all of these are part of the experimental sciences. There's an iconography also namely man, and… — Richard Lewontin Copy Share Image
Market studies suggest space tourism-a rubbernecker's trip to earth orbit-is likely to draw 50,000 passengers a year if the ticket can be… — G. Harry Stine Copy Share Image
Our creationist detractors charge that evolution is an unproved and unprovable charade — a secular religion masquerading as science. They claim, above… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
It is apparent to me that the possibilities of the aeroplane, which two or three years ago were thought to hold the… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
But Friedman seemed to share Friedrich Hayek's extreme and inaccurate view that socialism of the sort that Britain embraced under the old… — Richard Posner Copy Share Image
“people who spend their time, and earn their living, studying a particular topic produce poorer predictions than dart-throwing monkeys who would have… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
Before the current decade ends, fee-paying passengers will be experiencing suborbital flights aboard privately funded vehicles. . . . It won't be… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
Nature has color-coded groups of individuals so that statistically reliable predictions of their adaptability to intellectually rewarding and effective lives can easily… — William Shockley Copy Share Image
People ask me what my predictions are for publishing and how digital is changing things and I tell them my only real… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
A theory is a good theory if it satisfies two requirements: it must accurately describe a large class of observations on the… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
Each morning the day lies like a fresh shirt on our bed; this incomparably fine, incomparably tightly woven tissue of pure prediction… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
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