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Predictions Quotes by Bill Gaede
- A mathematician is an individual who believes that prophesying that his dog will die if he deprives it of food constitutes a prediction.
- Science is not about making predictions or performing experiments. Science is about explaining.
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- Everything is becoming science fiction. From the margins of an almost invisible literature has sprung the intact reality of the 20th century. — J. G. Ballard
- Prediction is very difficult, especially if it's about the future. — Niels Bohr
- If an elderly but distinguished scientist says that something is possible, he is almost certainly right; but if he says that it… — Arthur C. Clarke
- Malthus argued a century and a half ago that man, by using up all his available resources, would forever press on the… — 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… — 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… — 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… — Llewellyn Rockwell
- Most loss of life and property has been due to the collapse of antiquated and unsafe structures, mostly of brick and other… — 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… — Joseph Henry
- It is easy to obtain confirmations, or verifications, for nearly every theory-if we look for confirmations. Confirmations should count only if they… — Karl Popper
- All the scientist creates in a fact is the language in which he enunciates it. If he predicts a fact, he will… — Henri Poincare