Predictions Quotes

342 Predictions quotes by 251 unique authors

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
I don't think a reporter should give advice or make predictions. — Peter Jennings
Except for some effects that I attribute mostly to age, my intuitive thinking is just as prone to overconfidence, extreme predictions, and the planning fallacy… — Daniel Kahneman
Most successful pundits are selected for being opinionated, because it's interesting, and the penalties for incorrect predictions are negligible. You can make predictions, and a… — Daniel Kahneman
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
What can you conceive more silly and extravagant than to suppose a man racking his brains, and studying night and day how to fly? — William Law
I don't know anything about politics. I wouldn't put too much into my prediction on politics. — Norm MacDonald
I've been around since I was 19, I won the Oscar when I was 21, I've had a couple of TV series. I've continued to… — Marlee Matlin
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
There's no point in making predictions. It's not worth speculating because nothing is set in stone and things change all the time in football. Today… — Cristiano Ronaldo
We want to get 80%-85% of predictions right, not 100%. Or else we calibrated our estimates in the wrong way. — Nate Silver
The thing that people associate with expertise, authoritativeness, kind of with a capital 'A,' don't correlate very well with who's actually good at making predictions. — Nate Silver
Would you bet your paycheck on a weather forecast for tomorrow? If not, then why should this country bet billions on global warming predictions that… — Thomas Sowell
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
Politics is not predictions and politics is not observations. Politics is what we do. Politics is what we do, politics is what we create, by… — Paul Wellstone
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
The resemblance of the signs of the zodiac to the animals after which they are named... is as unimpressive as the predictions of astrologers. — Richard Dawkins
I see that the life of this place is always emerging beyond expectation or prediction or typicality, that it is unique, given to the world… — Wendell Berry
Day by day and almost minute by minute the past was brought up to date. In this way every prediction made by the Party could… — George Orwell
They believed that prediction was just a function of keeping track of things. If you knew enough, you could predict anything. That's been cherished scientific… — Michael Crichton
Gu was a worrier, a neurotic curmudgeon. If he had a headache, it was a brain tumor; if it looked like rain, this year's harvest… — Max Brooks

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