Predictions Quotes · Page 5

It's tough to make predictions, especially about the future.

— Yogi Berra

The aeroplane is tragically unsuited for ocean service.

— Hugo Eckener

You can predict all you want, but everybody knows what predictions get you.

— Hope Solo

Astrological prayers seem to me to be built on as good reason as the predictions.

— Benjamin Stillingfleet

Drill for oil? You mean drill into the ground to try and find oil? You're crazy!

— Edwin Drake

It is quite clear to me that the Tory Party will get rid of Mrs Thatcher in about 3 years time.

— Harold Wilson

Never make bad predictions, especially about the futture.

— Casey Stengel

My approach works not by making valid predictions but by allowing me to correct false ones.

— George Soros

So you see, in the end, it is nearly certain that the power of prediction must triumph over the arrogance of elegance.

— Robert Haugen

To consider the Earth as the only populated world in infinite space is as absurd as to assert that in an entire…

— Metrodorus of Chios

At a university they had the freshman class make the same predictions that some of the well-known psychics do every year, and…

— Frederick Lenz

Rail travel at high speed is not possible because passengers, unable to breathe, would die of asphyxia.

— Dionysius Lardner

I'd be doing Oscar predictions months ahead of time, and not only for the Oscars, for the Grammys. This is just what…

— Billy Eichner

The United States of America has no intention of finishing second in space. This effort is expensive-but it pays its way for…

— John F. Kennedy

The only thing that we know about financial predictions of start-ups is that 100 percent of them are wrong

— Brad Feld

Social Security has been effective for 70 years; prior predictions of its demise have been totally overstated.

— Grace Napolitano

Even present-day fuels possess more than enough energy, if only we knew how to release and use it. Just as molecular energy…

— P. E. Cleator

My stories are warnings; they're not predictions. If they were predictions, I wouldn't do them. Because then I'd be part of the…

— Ray Bradbury

No place is safe - no place is at peace. There is no place where a women and her daughter can hide…

— H. G. Wells

For I dipt into the future, far as human eye could see, Saw the vision of the world, and all the wonder…

— Alfred the Great

No rocket will reach the moon save by a miraculous discovery of an explosive far more energetic than any known. And even…

— Nikola Tesla

I believe that we are going to have a much deeper appreciation of what kinds of abnormalities in cancer cells and in…

— Harold E. Varmus

The usefulness of the models in constructing a testable theory of the process is severely limited by the quickly increasing number of…

— Anatol Rapoport

Was it - was she making a real prediction?' Dumbledore looked mildly impressed. 'Do you know, Harry, I think she might have…

— Anonymous

Many people are shrinking from the future and from participation in the movement toward a new, expanded reality. And, like homesick travelers…

— Margaret Mead

Of the properties of mathematics, as a language, the most peculiar one is that by playing formal games with an input mathematical…

— IU?. I. Manin

Our creationist detractors charge that evolution is an unproved and unprovable charade-a secular religion masquerading as science. They claim, above all, that…

— Stephen Jay Gould

“We have reached the end of one era, and now we don't know what is all around us. Because we're already in…

— László Krasznahorkai

It makes no sense to seek a single best way to represent knowledge-because each particular form of expression also brings its particular…

— Marvin Minsky

There has been a good deal of comment — some of it quite outlandish — about what our postwar requirements might be…

— Paul Wolfowitz

It is easy to obtain confirmations, or verifications, for nearly every theory-if we look for confirmations. Confirmations should count only if they…

— Karl Popper

“After several years of channeling, [my spirit guide,] Orin told me that he wanted to teach me about the future and probably…

— Sanaya Roman

Prediction is difficult- particularly when it involves the future.

— Mark Twain

The groundhog is like most other prophets; it delivers its prediction and then disappears.

— Bill Vaughan

We're the tortoise that has outrun the hare because it chose the easy predictions.

— Charlie Munger

The more unpredictable the world is the more we rely on predictions.

— Steve Rivkin

I'm just glad it'll be Clark Gable who's falling on his face and not Gary Cooper.

— Gary Cooper

We'll go into orbit. We'll go to the Moon. This business has no limits.

— Richard Branson

It is very difficult to make an accurate prediction, especially about the future.

— Niels Bohr

I don't like to make predictions, because my life's been pretty unpredictable so far.

— Kaya Scodelario