Abram Quote by Antony Garrett Lisi

Few things in this world are more predictable than the reaction of conventional minds to unconventional ideas.

— John Anthony West

And theories are no more than fictions which help us to make sense of experience and which are subject to disconfirmation when their explanations…

— Chinua Achebe

“The idea that we can systematically understand certain aspects of the world and make predictions based on what we’ve learned, while appreciating and categorizing…

— John Brockman

The realization that you can't predict the future -- and mold it -- could only come as a shock to an academic.

— David Harsanyi

“Predictability is not how things will go, but how they can go.”

— Raheel Farooq

“minds must remain in possibility”

— Maria Menounos

Great theories are expansive; failures mire us in dogmatism and tunnel vision.

— Stephen Jay Gould

I think science fiction is very bad at prediction.

— China Mieville

I think predictability is built into any good novel in some way - you begin reading Anna Karenina and you know pretty much what's…

— Scarlett Thomas

We have to learn to think outside of the box and see into the realm of possibility.

— Senoraroy

Science fiction seldom attempts to predict the future. More often than not, it tries to prevent the future.

— Arthur C. Clarke

I am profoundly skeptical about our abilities to predict the future in general, and human behavior in particular.

— Errol Morris