Finals Quote by Gregory Bateson

Science is prediction, not explanation.

— Fred Hoyle

“It is amusing to poke fun at the experts when their predictions fail. However, we should be careful with our Schadenfreude. To say our…

— Nate Silver

“[Modern scientific] theories can necessarily never be more than hypothetical, since their starting-point is wholly empirical, for facts in themselves are always susceptible of…

— René Guénon

Particular facts are never scientific; only generalization can establish science.

— Claude Bernard

Science is not about making predictions or performing experiments. Science is about explaining.

— Bill Gaede

The truth of a theory can never be proven, for one never knows if future experience will contradict its conclusions.

— Albert Einstein

Physics tells us observations can't be predicted absolutely. Rather, there's a range of possible observations each with a different probability.

— Robert Lanza

A prediction is a prediction because it's predictable.

— Robert Kiyosaki

Experimental confirmation of a prediction is merely a measurement. An experiment disproving a prediction is a discovery.

— Enrico Fermi

Predictions are preposterous. What usually happens is that people tell you that what they'd like to see happen instead of what they really think…

— Jackie Mason

In real science a hypothesis can never be proved true...A science which confines itself to correlating phenomena can never learn anything about the reality…

— James Jeans

If the facts are contrary to any predictions, then the hypothesis is wrong no matter how appealing.

— David Douglass