Quotes About Extrapolation

#1. Heaven isn't an extrapolation of earthly thinking; Earth is an extension of Heaven, made by the Creator King.

Randy Alcorn

#2. Science-fiction ... can be defined as: Imaginative extrapolation of true natural phenomena, existing now, or likely to exist in the future.

Hugo Gernsback

#3. I've been accused countless times of writing gloomy futures. But to me, the texture of my sci-fi just feels like an extrapolation of current trends.

Richard K. Morgan

#4. The highest compliment I can give a science fiction book is that it's 'plausibly surreal' - it manages to feel like a relentless extrapolation from today even as it overwhelms with unexpected consequences of that extrapolation.

Jamais Cascio

#5. Biological determinism is, in its essence, a theory of limits. It takes the current status of groups as a measure of where they should and must be ... We inhabit a world of human differences and predilections, but the extrapolation of these facts to theories of rigid limits is ideology.

Stephen Jay Gould

#6. Future is not extrapolation of past

Vinod Khosla

#7. An extrapolation of its present rate of growth reveals that in the not too distant future Physical Review will fill bookshelves at a speed exceeding that of light. This is not forbidden by general relativity since no information is being conveyed.

David Mermin

#8. The ontology of materialism rested upon the illusion that the kind of existence, the direct "actuality" of the world around us, can be extrapolated into the atomic range. This extrapolation is impossible, however.

Werner Heisenberg

#9. We are not what we might be; what we are / Outlaws all extrapolation / Beyond the interval of now and here: / White whales are gone with the white ocean.

Sylvia Plath

#10. Science fiction is, after all, the art of extrapolation.

Michael Dirda

#11. I'm not much interested in extrapolating science and technology; I merely use extrapolation as a means of putting people into new quandaries which produce colorful pressures and conflicts.

Alfred Bester

#12. Their guess turned out to be right, but one is reminded of E. T. Bell's remark that the great vice of the Greeks was not sodomy but extrapolation.

John D. Clark

#13. Induction is the process of taking things within our experience to be representative of the world outside our experience. It is a process of projection or extrapolation.

Simon Blackburn

#14. Carver's best book yet! FROM A CHANGELING STAR combines deft characterization and fascinating extrapolation into a complex, compulsively readable thriller. I wish all science fiction novels could be this good.

Craig Shaw Gardner

#15. When I think about myself as a writer, for sure I am a science fiction writer. The tools of extrapolation, the tools of anticipating the future - those are science fictional questions.

Paolo Bacigalupi

#16. I have always believed that astrophysics should be the extrapolation of laboratory physics, that we must begin from the present universe and work our way backward to progressively more remote and uncertain epochs.

Hannes Alfven

#17. Inside you is a two-million-year-old soul that knows what you deserve, that's making martinis as we speak. Start talking to that woman and drink what she's serving.

Lauren Roedy Vaughn

#18. If Romney were a chair, he'd be a squishy, expensively upholstered easy chair that bore the imprint of whoever last sat on it.

Timothy Noah

#19. To me, I'm the epitome of what a ghetto child is: I was raised by a single parent; I stayed in apartments my whole life; I don't think I've ever cut the grass.

Two Chainz

#20. Above all, never think you're not good enough. Never think that. In life people will take you at your own reckoning.

Isaac Asimov

#21. You cannot be pro-jobs and anti-business at the same time. You cannot love employment and hate employers.

Paul Tsongas

#22. Why are we ignoring the rest of the world? We need to have a fair and global response to migration.

Harsimrat Kaur Badal

#23. A willingness to embrace and work with what is lies at the core of all meditation practice.

Jon Kabat-Zinn

#24. That's the only dog I know who can smell someone just thinking about food.

Charles M. Schulz

#25. I felt like crying but nothing came out. it was just a sort of sad sickness, sick sad, when you can't feel any worse. I think you know it. I think everybody knows it now and then. but I think I have known it pretty often, too often.

Charles Bukowski