Explanation Quote by John Rogers Searle

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

— Michael Lewis

“Nothing can be predicted. Nobody can give a reason why something happened in this way and not in another. Stronger than all predictions are…

— Sten Nadolny

A prediction is a prediction because it's predictable.

— Robert Kiyosaki

A rational prediction has an explanation based on theory.

— W. Edwards Deming

Science is prediction, not explanation.

— Fred Hoyle

“Predictions are just good guesses or stories for the gullible.”

— Wynne Channing

“Correct predictions result in understanding. Incorrect predictions result in confusion and prompt you to pay attention.”

— Steven Kotler

“If you didn't predict that something would happen, if it took you completely by surprise, then what you believed about the world when you…

— Eliezer Yudkowsky

“predictions can’t vary more than the thing being forecast.”

— Richard H. Thaler

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

What appear to us to be causal explanations are in fact just stories—descriptions of what happened that tell us little, if anything, about the…

— Duncan J. Watts

“Predictions are but guesses - when they come true, they are prophecies; when they don't, we salvage the situation by calling them allegories.”

— Mike Klepper