Predictions Quotes

342 Predictions quotes by 251 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
In this acausal world, scientists are helpless. Their predictions become postdictions- Their equations become justifications, their logic, illogic. Scientists turn reckless and mutter like gamblers… — Alan Lightman
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
Left Behind takes what to some people may be unbelievable predictions from the Bible and shows how they might play out. It makes the events… — Jerry B. Jenkins
There has been a good deal of comment — some of it quite outlandish — about what our postwar requirements might be in Iraq. Some… — Paul Wolfowitz
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
Letters to the editors of English and American newspapers often contain expressions of horror about the new terms that creep into the language, and these… — Peter Farb
If my fans think I can do everything I say I can do, then they're crazier than I am. After one of his fight predictions… — Muhammad Ali
We made it. Despite the fear and predictions of doom. We made it. Even though there were days when we were tired and there were… — Ron Atchison
[I predict] the electricity generated by water power is the only thing that is going to keep future generations from freezing. Now we use coal… — Charles Proteus Steinmetz
One of the things that I think we have learned is that we should all be very careful about making predictions about the future. — William J. Clinton
Each artist comes to the painting or sculpture because there he can be told that he, the individual, transcends all classes and flouts all predictions.… — Ben Shahn
Control of space means control of the world. — Lyndon B. Johnson
The Roman Empire controlled the world because it could build roads . . . the British Empire was dominant because it had ships. In the… — Lyndon B. Johnson
Men who have worked together to reach the stars are not likely to descend together into the depths of war and desolation. — Lyndon B. Johnson
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
At a university they had the freshman class make the same predictions that some of the well-known psychics do every year, and they found the… — Frederick Lenz
I’m cocky in prediction, I’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
I take no pleasure in the fact that the scientific predictions I've relayed to popular audiences turn out to be true. — Al Gore
I am saying that all predictions concerning climate are highly uncertain. — Freeman Dyson

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