Predictions Quotes

342 quotes by 251 authors

I am frequently astonished that it so often results in correct predictions of experimental results. — Murray Gell-Mann
To consider the Earth as the only populated world in infinite space is as absurd as to assert that in an entire field of millet,… — Metrodorus of Chios
What man-made machine will ever achieve the complete perfection of even the goose's wing? — Unknown Author
First, by the figurations of art there be made instruments of navigation without men to row them, as great ships to brooke the sea, only… — Roger Bacon
I have discovered that a screw-shaped device such as this, if it is well made from starched linen, will rise in the air if turned… — Leonardo da Vinci
God is infinite, so His universe must be too. Thus is the excellence of God magnified and the greatness of His kingdom made manifest; He… — Giordano Bruno
Ships and sails proper for the heavenly air should be fashioned. Then there will also be people, who do not shrink from the dreary vastness… — Johannes Kepler
As soon as somebody demonstrates the art of flying, settlers from our species of man will not be lacking [on the Moon and Jupiter]. .… — Johannes Kepler
The Art of Flying is but newly invented, twill improve by degrees, and in time grow perfect; then we may fly as far as the… — Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle
At first we will only skim the surface of the earth like young starlings, but soon, emboldened by practice and experience, we will spring into… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
It is entirely impossible for man to rise into the air and float there. For this you would need wings of tremendous dimensions and they… — Unknown Author
At sea let the British their neighbors defy-The French shall have frigates to traverse the sky. — Philip Freneau
Bishop Wilkins prophesied that the time would come when gentlemen, when they were to go on a journey, would call for their wings as regularly… — Maria Edgeworth
I may be expediting the attainment of an object that will in time be found of great importance to mankind; so much so, that a… — George Cayley
Railroad carriages are pulled at the enormous speed of fifteen miles per hour by engines which, in addition to endangering life and limb of passengers,… — Martin Van Buren
Rail travel at high speed is not possible because passengers, unable to breathe, would die of asphyxia. — Dionysius Lardner
In spite of the opinions of certain narrow-minded people who would shut up the human race upon this globe, we shall one day travel to… — Jules Verne
In this age of inventive wonders all men have come to believe that in some genius' brain sleeps the solution of the grand problem of… — Mark Twain
And then, the Earth being small, mankind will migrate into space, and will cross the airless Saharas which separate planet from planet and sun from… — William Winwood Reade
I hold that in the flight of the soaring birds (the vultures, the eagles, and other birds which fly without flapping) ascension is produced by… — Unknown Author

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