Prediction Quotes

113 Prediction quotes by 100 unique authors

Legends of prediction are common throughout the whole Household of Man. Gods speak, spirits speak, computers speak. Oracular ambiguity or statistical probability provides loopholes, and… — Ursula K. Le Guin
Predictions of the future are never anything but projections of present automatic processes and procedures, that is, of occurrences that are likely to come to… — Hannah Arendt
Human nature is not amenable to prediction based on the trends or tendencies prevailing at the time. It is amenable to startling creativity of the… — Maurice Saatchi
I think science fiction is very bad at prediction. — China Mieville
A hundred years ago, Auguste Compte, ... a great philosopher, said that humans will never be able to visit the stars, that we will never… — Michio Kaku
Although I'm not prepared to move up my prediction of a computer passing the Turing test by 2029, the progress that has been achieved in… — Ray Kurzweil
When I think of the flag.... I see alternate strips of parchment upon which are written the rights of liberty and justice, and stripes of… — Woodrow Wilson
Iâ€™m cocky in prediction, Iâ€™m confident in preparation, but I am always humble in victory or defeat. — Conor McGregor
Prediction is not just one of the things your brain does. It is the primary function of the neo-cortex, and the foundation of intelligence. — Jeff Hawkins
The only relevant test of the validity of a hypothesis is comparison of prediction with experience. — Milton Friedman
Occurrences in this domain are beyond the reach of exact prediction because of the variety of factors in operation, not because of any lack of… — Albert Einstein
The prediction that glaciers will be gone from Glacier National Park has been moved up by 10 years to 2020, the same year it's predicted… — Bill Kurtis
I don't know anything about politics. I wouldn't put too much into my prediction on politics. — Norm MacDonald
I've actually made a prediction that within 30 years a majority of new cars made in the United States will be electric. And I don't… — Elon Musk
Nobody wants a prediction that the future will be more or less like the present, even if that is, statistically speaking, an excellent prediction. — Nathan Myhrvold
I never said I will stand, I said I hoped to stand. It wasn't a prediction. — Christopher Reeve
The groundhog is like most other prophets; it delivers its prediction and then disappears. — Bill Vaughan
A self-fulfilling prophecy is an assumption or prediction that, purely as a result of having been made, cause the expected or predicted event to occur… — Paul Watzlawick
One very important aspect of string theory is definitely testable. That was the prediction of supersymmetry, which emerged from string theory in the early '70s. — Edward Witten
When the number of factors coming into play in a phenomenological complex is too large scientific method in most cases fails. One need only think… — Albert Einstein

Who Wrote These Prediction Quotes

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