At sea let the British their neighbours defy — The French shall have frigates to traverse the sky. — Philip Freneau Copy Share Image
“and predictions. Science is often presented as ‘the facts’, frequently in” — Nick Lane Copy Share Image
Every day I make predictions that don't come anywhere close to the mark. — Joe Posnanski Copy Share Image
A plan is an example of what could happen, not a prediction of what will happen. — Kent Beck Copy Share Image
When good fighters fight, they often make predictions. It's all part of the media hype beforehand. — Carl Froch Copy Share Image
I'm 43 years old and I'm the healthiest candidate for the Presidency of the United States. You've travelled with me enough to… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
“Predictions are but guesses - when they come true, they are prophecies; when they don't, we salvage the situation by calling them… — Mike Klepper Copy Share Image
Use of paper has continued to soar. It is as though paper is taking its revenge on the futurists - not that… — Edward Tenner Copy Share Image
The past is democratic, because it is a people. The future is despotic, because it is a caprice. Every man is alone… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Science is progressing at such a rapid rate that when you make a prediction and think you are ahead of your time… — Leo Szilard Copy Share Image
Prediction is not just one of the things your brain does. It is the primary function of the neo-cortex, and the foundation… — Jeff Hawkins Copy Share Image
To date, no convincing evidence for AGW (anthropogenic global warming) has been discovered. And recent global climate behavior is not consistent with… — Richard Courtney Copy Share Image
The important prediction is not the automobile, but the parking problem; not radio, but the soap opera; not the income tax, but… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Except for some effects that I attribute mostly to age, my intuitive thinking is just as prone to overconfidence, extreme predictions, and… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
I have not the smallest molecule of faith in aerial navigation other than ballooning, or of the expectation of good results from… — Lord Kelvin Copy Share Image
New York to Tokyo could be less than an hour. You could be traveling at 19,000 miles per hour orbitally. After we've… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
“You will need to learn how to express-and quantify-the uncertainty in your predictions. You will need to update your forecast as facts… — Nate Silver Copy Share Image
Nobody believes a weather prediction twelve hours ahead. Now we're being asked to believe a prediction that goes out 100 years into… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
Few people who know of the work of Langley, Lilienthal, Pilcher, Maxim and Chanute but will be inclined to believe that long… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
To place a man in a multi-stage rocket and project him into the controlling gravitational field of the moon where the passengers… — Lee De Forest Copy Share Image
“As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great… — H.L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Of course, Jastrow's comment is exaggerated at best; theologians hardly predicted the Big Bang. If our universe turns out to be closed,… — Taner Edis Copy Share Image
As soon as somebody demonstrates the art of flying, settlers from our species of man will not be lacking on the Moon… — Johannes Kepler Copy Share Image
[Mikhail Bakunin] expectations were generally confirmed, including his prediction that some would seek to gain state power on the backs of popular… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“When I say something that contradicts the predictions of someone else in the past, people discredit me, not realizing that they are… — Robin Sacredfire Copy Share Image
It is my contention that an agent ideal to the use of the scientific militarist, for both the air raid and the… — David Lasser Copy Share Image
The theory of the earth is the science which describes and explains changes that the terrestrial globe has undergone from its beginning… — Horace-Benedict de Saussure Copy Share Image
I make predictions about what I'm going to do before a fight, that makes me nervous because I've gotten so good at… — Muhammad Ali Copy Share Image
“Gadgetry will continue to relieve mankind of tedious jobs. Kitchen units will be devised that will prepare ‘automeals,’ heating water and converting… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
This fellow Charles Lindbergh will never make it. He's doomed. — Harry Frank Guggenheim Copy Share Image
I've ceased making predictions on things because we'll see how they turn out. — David Plouffe Copy Share Image
I am quite pessimistic about ever achieving interstellar travel. — Theodore von Karman Copy Share Image
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