Predictions Quotes
There have been predictions that the world will come to an end on 21.12.12. But I look around me and I see so much scope for hope.
For me to sit down here, even as a Nobel Laureate and make a prediction about which science I think that will be a mistake.
Astrological prayers seem to me to be built on as good reason as the predictions.
The human brain is like a memory system that records every thing that happens to us and makes intelligent predictions based on those experiences.
One may say that predictions are dangerous particularly for the future. If the danger involved in a prediction is not incurred, no consequence follows and the uncertainty principle is not violated.
Social Security has been effective for 70 years; prior predictions of its demise have been totally overstated.
Business success is less a function of grandiose predictions than it is a result of being able to respond rapidly to real changes as they occur.
Left Behind takes what to some people may be unbelievable predictions from the Bible and shows how they might play out. It makes the events of biblical prophecy understandable and thus believable.
I have discovered that a screw-shaped device such as this, if it is well made from starched linen, will rise in the air if turned quickly.
If my fans think I can do everything I say I can do, then they're crazier than I am. After one of his fight predictions turned out to be wrong.
We need to stop, and admit it: we have a prediction problem. We love to predict things—and we aren’t very good at it.
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.
Whenever people have used religious documents to make accurate predictions about our base knowledge of the physical world, they have been famously wrong.
One of the things that I think we have learned is that we should all be very careful about making predictions about the future.
There is an excellent way to make predictions without the slightest risk of error: predict the past.
The exploration of the planets is now closer to us in time than the exploration of Africa by Stanley and Livingstone.
If the facts are contrary to any predictions, then the hypothesis is wrong no matter how appealing.
I am frequently astonished that it so often results in correct predictions of experimental results.
I have yet to see a successful prediction about the physical world that was inferred or extrapolated from the content of any religions document.
Perhaps the safest prediction we can make about the future is that it will surprise us.
I take no pleasure in the fact that the scientific predictions I’ve relayed to popular audiences turn out to be true.
When I was in my teens, I made an appraisal of how comfortable my life could turn out when I became the age I am now. Because of a mechanical failure, the prediction was inexact.
If I am going to trash others for their dumb predictions, I must at least hold myself to the same sort of accountability.
The thing about a theory in science is it allows you make predictions. Evolutionary theory allows us to predict what apples will taste good next harvest.
I'd be doing Oscar predictions months ahead of time, and not only for the Oscars, for the Grammys. This is just what excited me as a kid.
The future is itself a story, and predictions are stories we tell to amaze ourselves, to give hope to the desperate, to jolt the complacent.
I think people are going to return to sanity when they see how ridiculous many of these charges are, and how the predictions are not borne out.
I cannot give any assurances. I'm not in that business. I haven't been, and I don't intend to get into it. People who try to make predictions about things or assurances often find they're wrong.
Dreams, and predictions of astrology....ought to serve but for winter talk by the fireside.
