Predicted Quotes
152 quotes by 148 authors
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Faced with a new mutation in an organism, or a fundamental change in its living conditions, the biologist is frequently in no position whatever to…
— George Wald
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Since emotions are few and reasons are many (said the robot Giscard) the behavior of a crowd can be more easily predicted than the behavior…
— Isaac Asimov
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In 1994, nobody could have predicted 'Shawshank' would one day be an iconic movie - and believe me, that would never have happened if Danny…
— Bill Simmons
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It just never occurred to me that a school’s policy and student culture could make a big difference in the way I would experience my…
— Jaclyn Friedman
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At first everyone predicted that it would be impossible to hold these divergent people together, but aside from the skilled men, some of whom belonged…
— Ray Stannard Baker
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More and more Emerson recedes grandly into history, as the future he predicted becomes a past.
— Robert Penn Warren
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Who would have predicted... that Dubcek, who brought the tanks in in Czechoslovakia in 1968 is now being proclaimed a hero in Czechoslovakia. Unbelievable.
— Dan Quayle
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The world wide web has really been quite spectacular and not something I would have predicted.
— Jon Postel
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Science is defined in various ways, but today it is generally restricted to something which is experimental, which is repeatable, which can be predicted, and…
— Walter Lang
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The imminent demise of the church has been predicted since the middle of the 18th century. This is the regular secular mantra if churchgoing declines.…
— N. T. Wright
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It's a lot of random situations that combine in a certain volatile form and create a bigger-than- the-whole situation that nobody could have predicted.
— Paul Kantner
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Schools were designed by Horace Mann and Barnard Sears and Harper of the University of Chicago and Thorndyke of Columbia Teachers College and some other…
— John Taylor Gatto
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Instapaper is much bigger today than I could have predicted in 2008, and it has simply grown far beyond what one person can do. To…
— Marco Arment
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When I was younger, I talked to the adults around me that I respected most about how they got where they were, and none of…
— Anderson Cooper
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Look at what has occurred in history. When the Berlin Wall fell, it was not surprising, but it was unexpected. Who predicted the Arab Spring?…
— Gilles Duceppe
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If it were possible for us to have so deep an insight into a man's character as shown both in inner and in outer actions,…
— Immanuel Kant
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The future is not something to be predicted, it’s something to be achieved,
— Don Tapscott
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The models that have been constructed agree that when, as has been predicted, the level of carbon dioxide or its equivalent in other greenhouse gases…
— Bill McKibben
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Poetry is about slowing down. You sit and you read something, you read it again, and it reveals a little bit more, and things come…
— Mark Strand
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A carriage will start from Washington in the morning, the passengers will breakfast at Baltimore, dine at Philadelphia, and sup in New York the same…
— Oliver Evans
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