Prediction Quotes

113 quotes by 103 authors

• Prediction is very difficult, especially if it's about the future. — Niels Bohr
• Malthus argued a century and a half ago that man, by using up all his available resources, would forever press on the limits of subsistence,… — John F. Kennedy
• Each morning the day lies like a fresh shirt on our bed; this incomparably fine, incomparably tightly woven tissue of pure prediction fits us perfectly.… — Walter Benjamin
• With high hope for the future, no prediction is ventured. — Abraham Lincoln
• The past is democratic, because it is a people. The future is despotic, because it is a caprice. Every man is alone in his prediction,… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
• The leviathan state, that monster devouring civilization in this century, is in the throes of death. This is not a wish or a prediction, but… — Llewellyn Rockwell
• Most loss of life and property has been due to the collapse of antiquated and unsafe structures, mostly of brick and other masonry. ... There… — Charles Francis Richter
• The man of true genius never lives before his time, he never undertakes impossibilities, and always embarks on his enterprise at the suitable place and… — Joseph Henry
• All the scientist creates in a fact is the language in which he enunciates it. If he predicts a fact, he will employ this language,… — Henri Poincare
• Till facts be grouped and called there can be no prediction. The only advantage of discovering laws is to foretell what will happen and to… — Charles Darwin
• The prediction of nuclear winter is drawn not, of course, from any direct experience with the consequences of global nuclear war, but rather from an… — Carl Sagan
• The theory of the earth is the science which describes and explains changes that the terrestrial globe has undergone from its beginning until today, and… — Horace-Benedict de Saussure
• Only a tiny fraction of corpses fossilize, and we are lucky to have as many intermediate fossils as we do. We could easily have had… — Richard Dawkins
• No guarantees come with children's liberation. But neither the promise of great benefits to all nor the prediction of great difficulties ahead can serve as… — Richard Farson
• I'm going to make a prediction - it could go either way. — Ron Atkinson
• Global warming isn't a prediction. It is happening. — James Hansen
• The problem is not one of prediction. It is one of imagination. — Gary Hamel
• Einstein does not remain attached to the classical principles, and when presented with a problem in physics he quickly envisages all of its possibilities. This… — Henri Poincare
• I predicted in August that Celtic would reach the final. On the eve of that final I stand by that prediction. — Archie Macpherson
• When I was in my teens, I made an appraisal of how comfortable my life could turn out when I became the age I am… — Arthur Nersesian

Who Wrote These Prediction Quotes

103 authors contributed a total of 113 Prediction Quotes, led by these top contributors:

• 3 Prediction Quotes by Niels Bohr
• 3 Prediction Quotes by Albert Einstein
• 2 Prediction Quotes by Henri Poincare
• 2 Prediction Quotes by Carl Sagan
• 2 Prediction Quotes by Michael Crichton
• 2 Prediction Quotes by Enrico Fermi
• 2 Prediction Quotes by Richard Posner
• 2 Prediction Quotes by Jeff Hawkins
• 1 Prediction Quote by Llewellyn Rockwell
• 1 Prediction Quote by Bill Gaede
• 1 Prediction Quote by Nathan Myhrvold
• 1 Prediction Quote by Kenneth Melvin Jr
• 1 Prediction Quote by Charles Francis Richter
• 1 Prediction Quote by Gavin de Becker
• 1 Prediction Quote by Christopher Reeve
• 1 Prediction Quote by Isabel
• 1 Prediction Quote by Joseph Henry
• 1 Prediction Quote by Neil Gaiman
• 1 Prediction Quote by Bill Vaughan
• 1 Prediction Quote by Fred Singer
• 1 Prediction Quote by Paul Watzlawick
• 1 Prediction Quote by Charles Darwin
• 1 Prediction Quote by Malcolm Gladwell
• 1 Prediction Quote by Edward Witten
• 1 Prediction Quote by Taylor Swift