Predictions Quotes

Hope is not a prediction of the future, it's a declaration of what is possible.

We must prove our predictions about the future with action.

As for the depiction of the Catholic church, it's not meant to be a prediction

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 what we work for, by what we hope for and what we dare to imagine.

My approach works not by making valid predictions but by allowing me to correct false ones.

That's not a prediction, that's a spoiler.

An experiment disproving a prediction is discovery.

It is quite clear to me that the Tory Party will get rid of Mrs Thatcher in about 3 years time.

When you have two competing theories that make exactly the same predictions, the simpler one is the better.

While theoretically and technically television may be feasible, commercially and financially it is an impossibility.

Rule 1. Original data should be presented in a way that will preserve the evidence in the original data for all the predictions assumed to be useful.

A plan is an example of what could happen, not a prediction of what will happen.

I never make predictions and I never will.

My biggest prediction for the future is that people are going to start looking after individual investors.

This is my prediction for the future: Whatever hasn't happened will happen, and no one will be safe from it.

The aeroplane will never fly.

We're the tortoise that has outrun the hare because it chose the easy predictions.

I have learned not to do predictions. It's not helpful, psychologically. I don't sit and fret about things.

Berkshireis in the business of making easy predictions If a deal looks too hard, the partners simply shelve it.

The only useful function of a statistician is to make predictions, and thus to provide a basis for action.

Global warming isn't a prediction. It is happening.

Nobody wants a prediction that the future will be more or less like the present, even if that is, statistically speaking, an excellent prediction.

All buildings are predictions. All predictions are wrong.

I never make a prediction that can be proved wrong within 24 hours.

The only relevant test of the validity of a hypothesis is comparison of prediction with experience.

...there is no substantive basis for predictions of sizeable global warming due to observed increases in minor greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide, methane and chlorofluorocarbons.

Prediction is very hard, particularly when it's about the future.

The aeroplane is tragically unsuited for ocean service.

Never make bad predictions, especially about the futture.

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.

Every lawyer of experience comes to know (more or less unconsciously) that in the great majority of cases, the precedents are none too good as bases of prediction. Somehow or other, there are plenty of precedents to go around.

A prediction about the direction of the stock market tells you nothing about where stocks are headed, but a whole lot about the person doing the predicting.

A rational prediction has an explanation based on theory.

Making predictions is tough. Especially for the future.

The one prediction that never comes true is, 'You'll thank me for telling you this.

A prediction is a prediction because it's predictable.

Management is prediction.

To squander a fortune in public money, billions and billions, stubbornly carrying on with a Concorde we can only sell to ourselves.

You can't make money with a consensus accurate prediction.

Utopianism substitutes glorious predictions and unachievable promises for knowledge, science, and reason, while laying claim to them all.

The only thing that we know about financial predictions of start-ups is that 100 percent of them are wrong

Because of recent improvements in the accuracy of theoretical predictions based on large scale ab initio quantum mechanical calculations, meaningful comparisons between theoretical and experimental findings have become possible.

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.

Prediction is difficult- particularly when it involves the future.

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.

One of the things that I think we have learned is that we should all be very careful about making predictions about the future.

It is very difficult to make an accurate prediction, especially about the future.

Almost all of the many predictions now being made about 1996 hinge on the internet's continuing exponential growth. But I predict the internet will soon go spectacularly supernova and in 1996 catastrophically collapse.

With high hope for the future, no prediction is ventured.

The problem is not one of prediction. It is one of imagination.