Predict Quote by Henri Poincare

The more absolute the need, the more predictable the behavior becomes until it is mathematically certain.

— William S. Burroughs

If we knew exactly the laws of nature and the situation of the universe at the initial moment, we could predict exactly the situation…

— Henri Poincare

The hypotheses which we accept ought to explain phenomena which we have observed. But they ought to do more than this; our hypotheses ought…

— William Whewell

When something happens people didn't predict, they find ways to explain it as if it were predictable.

— Michael Lewis

In effect, we have redefined the task of science to be the discovery of laws that will enable us to predict events up to…

— Stephen Hawking

The chief point we must remember is that the great and rapid advance of the physical sciences took place in fields where it proved…

— Friedrich August von Hayek

We want laws to be applied predictably.

— Nancy Gibbs

“The individual case does not serve only to confirm a law from which practical predictions can be made. Its ideal is rather to understand…

— Hans-Georg Gadamer

“Given an approximate knowledge of a system’s initial conditions and an understanding of natural law, one can calculate the approximate behavior of the system.”

— James Gleick

“What’s the point of making predictions if they cannot change anything? Some complex systems, such as the weather, are oblivious to our predictions. The…

— Yuval Noah Harari

You can hit a nail on the head, or cause a machine to do so, and get a fairly predictable result. Hit a dog…

— Bill Mollison

If we knew all the laws of Nature, we should need only fact, or the description of one actual phenomenon, to infer all the…

— Henry David Thoreau