Best Predictions Quotes

#1. If to enjoy even an enjoyable present we must have the assurance of a happy future, we are "crying for the moon." We have no such assurance. The best predictions are still matters of probability rather than certainty, and to the best of our knowledge every one of us is going to suffer and die.

Alan W. Watts

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

Gary Hamel

#3. Whenever you try to pick market tops and bottoms, you are making a prediction. Guessing what stock is going to outperform the market is forecasting, as is selling a stock for no apparent reason. Indeed, nearly all capital decisions made by most people are unconscious predictions.

Barry Ritholtz

#4. A daily newspaper is destined to become like a weekly magazine. We'll be talking about what might happen tomorrow, with feature articles, investigative supplements, unexpected predictions ...

Umberto Eco

#5. Predictions of surprising events always prove more accurate if not set down on paper beforehand.

Carl Sagan

#6. You can only predict things after they have happened.

Eugene Ionesco

#7. most importantly, this prediction is less of a prophecy and more a way of discussing our present choices. If the discussion makes us choose differently, so that the prediction is proven wrong, all the better. What's the point of making predictions if they cannot change anything?

Yuval Noah Harari

#8. Over the years, that investors continued to fund Pike's grandiose predictions, the price of coal was high enough to send men day after day into a flawed & dangerous place. Now that they are dead the price is not high enough to get them out

Rebecca Macfie

#9. It is our common experience as human beings that the results of social forces seem to admit only of 'probabilistic' predictions.

John Harsanyi

#10. I don't make mistakes. I make predictions which immediately turn out to be wrong.

Tony Benn

#11. Enlightened spirit of the age is not the principal of life but a mirror that lets us see life through it's view.

Auliq Ice

#12. [the doctor] clicked by mistake on the notes of a patient she'd got to know well - too well. The unfortunate Mrs. Swayne had become unhealthily doctor-dependent. But had she grasped the nettle? Had she actually finally and against all predictions left the country?

Jane Wilson-Howarth

#13. The best works of art are never innocuous: they alter the viewer's perceptual predictions. It is only when the patterns of our vision are disrupted that we truly pay attention and must ask ourselves what we are looking at.

Siri Hustvedt

#14. And, in fine, of false sciences I thought I knew the worth sufficiently to escape being deceived by the professions of an alchemist, the predictions of an astrologer, the impostures of a magician, or by the artifices and boasting of any of those who profess to know things of which they are ignorant.

Rene Descartes

#15. 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.

Jack Welch

#16. A rational prediction has an explanation based on theory.

W. Edwards Deming

#17. I was really interested to see whether we could make predictions or forecasts by listening in on what people were saying on social media.

Noreena Hertz

#18. The Brahmins say that in their books there are many predictions of times in which it will rain. But press those books as strongly as you can, you can not get out of them a drop of water. So you can not get out of all the books that contain the best precepts the smallest good deed.

Leo Tolstoy

#19. I figure lots of predictions is best. People will forget the ones I get wrong and marvel over the rest.

Alan Cox

#20. I've learned that the best political reporters never make predictions!

Jodi Kantor

#21. On the night that I was born, my paternal grandfather, Josef Tock, made ten predictions that shaped my life. Then he died in the very minute that my mother gave birth to me.

Dean Koontz

#22. It is not the words or the actions you should trust, rather the pattern.

Shannon L. Alder

#23. Making predictions is like throwing a dartboard at the fixture list

Mike Parry

#24. I believe that we are going to have a much deeper appreciation of what kinds of abnormalities in cancer cells and in the surrounding cells that feed and respond to cancers are vulnerabilities that will allow us to make better predictions of which kinds of drugs will work to treat these cancers.

Harold E. Varmus

#25. Till facts be grouped and called there can be no prediction. The only advantage of discovering laws is to foretell what will happen and to see the bearing of scattered facts.

Charles Darwin

#26. I love the predictions of a man right before his first child is born," Flowers said. "They're like little snowflakes. Right before the sun comes blazing out the clouds and melts those happy dreams away.

Michael Chabon

#27. A very friendly boom, like a pair of gleeful handclaps.

James Lighthill

#28. Earth has cooled since 1998 in defiance of the predictions by the UN-IPCC ... The global temperature for 2007 was the coldest in a decade and the coldest of the millennium ... which is why 'global warming' is now called 'climate change.'

Richard Keen

#29. All buildings are predictions. All predictions are wrong.

Stewart Brand

#30. Quantum mechanics broke the mold of the previous framework, classical mechanics, by establishing that the predictions of science are necessarily probabilistic.

Brian Greene

#31. I am frequently astonished that it so often results in correct predictions of experimental results.

Murray Gell-Mann

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

Mumia Abu-Jamal

#33. The reliance on the heuristic caused predictable biases (systematic errors) in their predictions.

Daniel Kahneman

#34. Well, biology is not only about genes and environment, but also cells and the constraints of their physical structure, which we shall see have little to do with either genes or environment directly. The predictions that arise from these disparate world views are strikingly different.

Nick Lane

#35. Every day I make predictions that don't come anywhere close to the mark.

Joe Posnanski

#36. My predictions are notably inaccurate.

Robert Caro

#37. You can predict all you want, but everybody knows what predictions get you.

Hope Solo

#38. 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.

Donald Rumsfeld

#39. All predictions are wrong, that's one of the few certainties granted to mankind.

Milan Kundera

#40. Predictions that unit cohesion could not survive honesty about sexual orientation were simply wrong. What does threaten morale arethe prolonged investigations, the questioning of friends and co-workers, the searches of barracks for magazines and letters, the witch hunts.

Anna Quindlen