Top 100 Prediction Quotes
#1. 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
#2. The important prediction is not the automobile, but the parking problem; not radio, but the soap opera; not the income tax, but the expense account; not the Bomb, but the nuclear stalemate
Isaac Asimov
#3. The prediction that glaciers will be gone from Glacier National Park has been moved up by 10 years to 2020, the same year it's predicted the Arctic Sea will be ice-free in the summer.
Bill Kurtis
#4. One of the marvels of personality is its resistance to prediction. One man's paralyzing trauma is another man's invitation to take control of his life; one woman's grounds for insanity is another woman's ground to a dramatic shaping of self.
Rosellen Brown
#5. Science chases money
and money chases its tail
and the best minds of my generation can't make bail.
But the bacteria are coming
that's my prediction.
It's the answer to this culture
of the quick-fix prescription.
Ani DiFranco
#6. I've actually made a prediction that within 30 years a majority of new cars made in the United States will be electric. And I don't mean hybrid, I mean fully electric.
Elon Musk
#7. The paradigm of physics - with its interplay of data, theory and prediction - is the most powerful in science.
Geoffrey West
#8. Prediction is the best circus act of all. But it is just an act. It's a carny turn. Stop doing it.
Warren Ellis
#9. The prediction of nuclear winter is drawn not, of course, from any direct experience with the consequences of global nuclear war, but rather from an investigation of the governing physics.
Carl Sagan
#10. They believed that prediction was just a function of keeping track of things. If you knew enough, you could predict anything. That's been cherished scientific belief since Newton.'
And?'
Chaos theory throws it right out the window.
Michael Crichton
#11. Darwin's theory thus makes the testable prediction that whenever we use technology to glimpse reality beyond the human scale, our evolved intuition should break down.
Max Tegmark
#12. I think political science is bad at prediction. We don't gaze into a crystal ball. I do not believe that we predict things.
Ian Bremmer
#13. 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
#14. Another prediction of general relativity is that time should appear to run slower near a massive body like the earth.
Stephen Hawking
#15. 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
#16. One SF prediction that I would like very much to see: Get solar collectors launched to beam energy back home, and get away from fossil fuels.
Jack McDevitt
#17. I believe that only short-term price swings can be predicted with any precision. The accuracy of a prediction drops off dramatically, the more distant the forecast time. I'm a strong believer in chaos theory.
Linda Bradford Raschke
#18. But I don't think I have any particular talent for prediction, because when you have three or four elements in hand, you don't have to be a genius to reach certain conclusions.
Antonio Tabucchi
#19. The problem is not one of prediction. It is one of imagination.
Gary Hamel
#20. If belief in the existence of God is predicted to lead to a feeling of contentment, and the prediction is fulfilled, does it follow that God exists? Surely not. All that would follow would be the desireability of the belief.
Richard Posner
#21. Is not happening yet," contributes Boris. "Singularity implies infinite rate of change achieved momentarily. Future not amenable thereafter to prediction by presingularity beings, right? So has not happened.
Charles Stross
#22. I'm a historian. The act of predicting the future discomfits me, in any event - and the bigger the prediction, the more distrusting I am.
Rick Perlstein
#24. 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.
Nate Silver
#25. An experiment disproving a prediction is discovery.
Enrico Fermi
#26. Prediction is a very difficult business, particularly about the future
Fred Singer
#27. What do you call an economist with a prediction? Wrong.
Robert Kuttner
#28. Einstein does not remain attached to the classical principles, and when presented with a problem in physics he quickly envisages all of its possibilities. This leads immediately in his mind to the prediction of new phenomena which may one day be verified by experiment.
Henri Poincare
#29. be him." "How would you know?" "It's just a prediction." I
Veronica Roth
#30. I try not to get involved in the business of prediction. It's a quick way to look like an idiot.
Warren Ellis
#31. Weather abroad
and weather in the heart alike come on
Regardless of prediction.
Adrienne Rich
#32. Not too long ago, my opponent made a prediction. He said I would probably win Pennsylvania, he would win North Carolina, and Indiana would be the tiebreaker. Well, tonight we've come from behind, we've broken the tie, and, thanks to you, it's full speed on to the White House.
Hillary Clinton
#33. There is no example of someone reading their scripture and saying, 'I have a prediction about the world that no one knows yet, because this gave me insight. Let's go test that prediction,' and have the prediction be correct.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#34. Was it - was she making a real prediction?'
Dumbledore looked mildly impressed.
'Do you know, Harry, I think she might have been,' he said thoughtfully. 'Who'd have thought it? That brings her total of real predictions up to two. I should offer her a pay raise ...
J.K. Rowling
#35. The one prediction that never comes true is, 'You'll thank me for telling you this.
Judith Martin
#36. 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.
Ahmed H. Zewail
#37. Accurate prediction of the future, of its technologies and traumas, has always seemed to me to be the least interesting thing about science fiction.
The Killer Hook.
Michael Chabon
#38. [A]s for my prediction that [the iPhone] would be a bad idea for Apple to pursue, anything can still happen. Time is a cruel mistress.
John C. Dvorak
#39. Quantification, experimentation, rigor, repetition, prediction - all of these are part of the experimental sciences. There's an iconography also namely man, and I do mean males in white coats who spin dials and wait for numbers to appear.
Richard Lewontin
#40. String theory's biggest prediction is that gravity exists. That's good. That's a lot more than preceding theories could do.
Sheldon Lee Glashow
#41. The best weather prediction for the present moment is to look out of the window!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#42. Nobody wants a prediction that the future will be more or less like the present, even if that is, statistically speaking, an excellent prediction.
Nathan Myhrvold
#43. So you see, in the end, it is nearly certain that the power of prediction must triumph over the arrogance of elegance.
Robert Haugen
#44. A prediction, in a field where prediction is not possible, is no more than a prejudice.
Malcolm Gladwell
#45. I think science fiction is very bad at prediction.
China Mieville
#46. We did some research that showed that the very first word of your message that you send a girl - when we looked at men sending messages to women - the very first word can have a tremendous ... can have a very accurate prediction of whether you're going to get a reply.
Sam Yagan
#47. Here's my prediction: Ninety percent of what everyone will drink will be red wine, and one of the biggest markets will be China.
Kevin Zraly
#48. Global warming isn't a prediction. It is happening.
James Hansen
#49. Although almost every theoretical physicist agrees with my prediction that a black hole should glow like a hot body, it would be very difficult to verify experimentally because the temperature of a macroscopic black hole is so low.
Stephen Hawking
#50. Prediction? The Democrats will win. I think it will be a close win, both for the House and for the Senate.
John Dingell
#51. The astrological prediction for Libra in the "Your Stars Today" column
Terry Pratchett
#52. I predicted in August that Celtic would reach the final. On the eve of that final I stand by that prediction.
Archie Macpherson
#53. Prediction is certainly a valuable goal in science, but not the only one. Explanation is also important, and there are plenty of sciences that do a lot of explaining and not much predicting.
Eric Maskin
#54. On Sunday, the president flies to the Azores islands to attend a summit with British Prime Minister Tony Blair and Spanish Prime Minister Jose Aznar, and here's my prediction: Bush gets voted off.
Craig Kilborn
#55. The prediction I can make with the highest confidence is that the most amazing discoveries will be the ones we are not today wise enough to foresee.
Carl Sagan
#56. As for the depiction of the Catholic church, it's not meant to be a prediction.
Dan Simmons
#57. I shall go further and say that even if an examination of the past could lead to any valid prediction concerning man's future, that prediction would be the contrary of reassuring.
Julien Benda
#58. He explained that unlike our other classes in the program, research was all about prediction and control. I was smitten. You mean that rather than leaning and holding, I could spend my career predicting and controlling? I had found my calling.
Brene Brown
#59. Nobody believes a weather prediction twelve hours ahead. Now we're being asked to believe a prediction that goes out 100 years into the future? And make financial investments based on that prediction? Has everybody lost their minds?
Michael Crichton
#60. Any astronomer can predict with absolute accuracy just where every star in the universe will be at 11.30 tonight. He can make no such prediction about his teenage daughter.
James Truslow Adams
#61. My prediction is that in the same way that Google is an intent revealing service that can be monetized that way, I would think that if I were at Twitter, I would focus on the search aspect of Twitter, because people are revealing intents when they do a search.
Jason Kilar
#62. When I think of the flag ... I see alternate strips of parchment upon which are written the rights of liberty and justice, and stripes of blood to vindicate those rights, and then, in the corner, a prediction of the blue serene into which every nation may swim which stands for these great things.
Woodrow Wilson
#63. You can't make money with a consensus accurate prediction
Bill Gurley
#64. Experimental confirmation of a prediction is merely a measurement. An experiment disproving a prediction is a discovery.
Enrico Fermi
#65. It is very difficult to make an accurate prediction, especially about the future.
Niels Bohr
#66. During many ages, the prediction, as it is usual, contributed to its own accomplishment.
Edward Gibbon
#67. 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.
Edward Witten
#69. Prediction, not narration, is the real test of our understanding of the world.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#70. With high hope for the future, no prediction is ventured.
Abraham Lincoln
#71. We did a Tarot
card reading. She told me different things, most of them depressing and
worth forgetting. But what I'll always remember is her prediction of my
death, and how I'd become a kind of ghost, 'wandering' she said, with a
'spiritual restlessness'.
Keith Steinbaum
#72. Our spiritual life is a life in which we wait, actively present to the moment, expecting that new things will happen to us, new things that are far beyond our own imagination or prediction. This, indeed, is a very radical stance toward life in a world preoccupied with control.
Henri Nouwen
#73. A meteorologist might beg to differ, but weather prediction was an act of infidel witchcraft that could not be trusted.
Anthony Marra
#74. The trend is, in fact, a statement of future prospects in the form of an exact prediction.
Benjamin Graham
#75. The past is democratic, because it is a people. The future is despotic, because it is a caprice. Every man is alone in his prediction, just as each man is alone in a dream.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
#76. Hope is not a prediction of the future, it's a declaration of what's possible.
Yogi Bhajan
#77. Let me state what the official IPCC prediction is: Sea levels could go up as much as three-quarters of a meter in this century, but there is a reasonable probability it could be much higher than that.
Steven Chu
#78. Any prediction worth its weigh would consider the spiritual, material, and unintended consequences of introducing a new technology to the world. It would proceed from the kind of understanding Chellis articulated: Life is Whole.
Stephanie Mills
#79. For him, conscious intent was a form of prediction, and prediction is only possible when the status quo has reason to assume it will meet no significant opposition.
William S. Burroughs
#80. When we hear a prediction of some disaster we need to throw the entire weight of our positive thought in the opposite direction!
Peace Pilgrim
#81. I don't give a score prediction, but I am a defensive guy, so I'll definitely be looking forward to a defensive game.
J. J. Watt
#82. I'm cocky in prediction, I'm confident in preparation, but I am always humble in victory or defeat.
Conor McGregor
#83. You don't need to predict the future. Just choose a future
a good future, a useful future
and make the kind of prediction that will alter human emotions and reactions in such a way that the future you predicted will be brought about. Better to make a good future than predict a bad one.
Isaac Asimov
#84. President Bush is now focusing on jobs. I think the one job he's focusing most on is his own. The White House is now backtracking from its prediction that 2.6 million new jobs will be created in the U.S. this year. They say they were off by roughly 2.6 million jobs.
Jay Leno
#85. Prediction is not just one of the things your brain does. It is the primary function of the neo-cortex, and the foundation of intelligence.
Jeff Hawkins
#86. Prediction," as Niels Bohr liked to say, "is very difficult, especially if it's about the future.
Steven D. Levitt
#87. If she was on the porch when we passed, we would be raked by her wrathful gaze, subjected to ruthless interrogation regarding our behaviour, and given a melancholy prediction on what we would amount to when we grew up, which was always nothing.
Harper Lee
#88. I never said I will stand, I said I hoped to stand. It wasn't a prediction.
Christopher Reeve
#89. How many times has the end of the world been predicted? The same number of times the prediction has proved false.
Hugh Downs
#90. Perhaps the safest prediction we can make about the future is that it will surprise us.
George Leonard
#91. She managed to come up with the kind of predictions that you can only understand after the thing has happened," said Anathema. "Like 'Do Notte Buye Betamacks.' That was a prediction for 1972.
Terry Pratchett
#92. What did Jesus tell his disciples? "Heaven is right here in the midst of you."6 In the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus makes a prediction that to this day few people have understood.
Eckhart Tolle
#93. I never make a prediction that can be proved wrong within 24 hours.
Louis Rukeyser
#94. I don't know anything about politics. I wouldn't put too much into my prediction on politics.
Norm MacDonald
#95. My biggest prediction for the future is that people are going to start looking after individual investors.
John C. Bogle
#96. Prediction from a grown-up: Your future is going to be amazing. You will surprise yourself with what you're capable of and the incredible things you go on to do. Find the people who love and believe in you - there will be lots of them.
Hillary Clinton
#97. 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.
Jerome Frank
#98. Each morning the day lies like a fresh shirt on our bed; this incomparably fine, incomparably tightly woven tissue of pure prediction fits us perfectly. The happiness of the next twenty-four hours depends on our ability, on waking, to pick it up.
Walter Benjamin
#99. because my childhood became all about prediction, I learned to live in the future. I didn't feel things in the present because I wanted to be a moving target, gone to the future before any blow could really be felt.
Gavin De Becker
#100. Science is prediction, not explanation.
Fred Hoyle
Famous Authors
Popular Topics
Scroll to Top
