Top 100 Quotes About Predictions
#1. Making predictions is like throwing a dartboard at the fixture list
Mike Parry
#2. 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
#3. 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
#4. 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
#5. A very friendly boom, like a pair of gleeful handclaps.
James Lighthill
#6. 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
#7. All buildings are predictions. All predictions are wrong.
Stewart Brand
#8. Quantum mechanics broke the mold of the previous framework, classical mechanics, by establishing that the predictions of science are necessarily probabilistic.
Brian Greene
#9. I am frequently astonished that it so often results in correct predictions of experimental results.
Murray Gell-Mann
#10. It is not the words or the actions you should trust, rather the pattern.
Shannon L. Alder
#11. The reliance on the heuristic caused predictable biases (systematic errors) in their predictions.
Daniel Kahneman
#12. 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
#13. Every day I make predictions that don't come anywhere close to the mark.
Joe Posnanski
#14. My predictions are notably inaccurate.
Robert Caro
#15. You can predict all you want, but everybody knows what predictions get you.
Hope Solo
#16. 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
#17. All predictions are wrong, that's one of the few certainties granted to mankind.
Milan Kundera
#18. Senator, my answer is that the independence and integrity of the Supreme Court requires that nominees before this committee for a position on that court not forecast, give predictions, give hints, about how they might rule in cases that might come before the Supreme Court,.
John Roberts
#19. 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
#20. I have learned not to do predictions. It's not helpful, psychologically. I don't sit and fret about things.
Mumia Abu-Jamal
#21. [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
#22. 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
#23. 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
#24. Predictions of surprising events always prove more accurate if not set down on paper beforehand.
Carl Sagan
#25. You can only predict things after they have happened.
Eugene Ionesco
#26. 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
#27. 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
#28. It is our common experience as human beings that the results of social forces seem to admit only of 'probabilistic' predictions.
John Harsanyi
#29. I don't make mistakes. I make predictions which immediately turn out to be wrong.
Tony Benn
#30. 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
#31. The problem is not one of prediction. It is one of imagination.
Gary Hamel
#32. 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
#33. 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
#34. 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
#36. 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
#37. An experiment disproving a prediction is discovery.
Enrico Fermi
#38. Prediction is a very difficult business, particularly about the future
Fred Singer
#39. We're mortal, yet without a known expiration date. It's an inevitable fate worthy of acceptance, but not deserving of predictions.
Joe Peterson
#40. As long as scepticism is based on a sound understanding of science it is invaluable, for that is how science progresses. But poor criticism can lead those who are unfamiliar with the science involved into doubting everything about climate change predictions.
Tim Flannery
#41. Making predictions is tough. Especially for the future.
Yogi Berra
#42. I'm generally considered a conservative in my predictions for disease.
Anthony Fauci
#43. What do you call an economist with a prediction? Wrong.
Robert Kuttner
#44. Error held as truth has much the effect of truth. In politics and religion this fact upsets many confident predictions.
George Iles
#45. Science is one of a handful of things that defines us as a very special species. It is amazing how far we have been able to get and how accurate our predictions are. I think understanding how the universe was born is very important. It really gives us a perspective on many things.
Yuri Milner
#46. To the extent that you can find ways where you're making predictions, there's no substitute for testing yourself on real-world situations that you don't know the answer to in advance.
Nate Silver
#47. No matter how sensible-seeming or wild an idea, the smart thinker asks: Does it work? When put to the test, can its predictions be confirmed? Subjected to such scrutiny, crazy-sounding ideas sometimes find support.
David G. Myers
#48. In a world with amazing amounts of statistics and demographics available, If you don't utilize foresight, statistics, demographics, projections and predictions the competition will.
Akutra-Ramses Atenosis Cea
#49. 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.
Walter A. Shewhart
#50. 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.
Dixie Lee Ray
#51. Nonsense," said the witcher. "And what's more, it doesn't rhyme. All decent predictions rhyme.
Andrzej Sapkowski
#52. Fear clouds our convictions and distorts our discernment. When we fill our minds with negative predictions or allow our thoughts to manipulate us into thinking about all the possible destructive outcomes of our mission, we invite fear to paralyze our progress.
Kris Vallotton
#53. Weather abroad
and weather in the heart alike come on
Regardless of prediction.
Adrienne Rich
#54. Social Security has been effective for 70 years; prior predictions of its demise have been totally overstated.
Grace Napolitano
#55. Predictions are hard, especially abot the future.
Niels Bohr
#56. It's always difficult to make predictions about the future.
Hermann E. Ott
#57. We do have tendency, now in biology especially to make up stories, to make theoretical biology a kind of game, in fact we have game theory in biology which is meant to use the theory of games to make predictions or explain things.
Richard Lewontin
#58. In making these predictions, I have had the invaluable assistance of scientists who graciously allowed me to interview them, broadcast their ideas on national radio, and even take a TV crew into their laboratories.
Michio Kaku
#59. Most economists, like doctors, are reluctant to make predictions, and those who make them are seldom accurate. The economy, like the human body, is a highly complex system whose workings are not thoroughly understood.
Alice Rivlin
#60. 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
#61. When you have two competing theories that make exactly the same predictions, the simpler one is the better.
William Of Ockham
#62. The one prediction that never comes true is, 'You'll thank me for telling you this.
Judith Martin
#63. I accept that climate change is a challenge, I accept the broad theory about global warming. I am sceptical about a lot of the more gloomy predictions.
John Howard
#64. Jeff Selingo is one of the most respected observers of American higher education ... Not all will agree with his observations, conclusions, predictions and recommendations, but all will gain from this thoughtful, well-written, provocative volume. I highly recommend it.
David J. Skorton
#65. To date, no convincing evidence for AGW (anthropogenic global warming) has been discovered. And recent global climate behavior is not consistent with AGW model predictions.
Richard Courtney
#66. As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.
H.L. Mencken
#67. Science is about predictions based on predictable fact. Life is about surprises based on the unpredictable reality.
Ori Hofmekler
#68. Now when a man is as right as that in his forecasts, there is some reason to think he may be right in his premises.
Frank Sheed
#69. Very much, string theory is simply a work in progress. What we are inching toward every day are predictions that within the realm of current technology we hope to test. It's not like we're working on a theory that is permanently beyond experiment. That would be philosophy.
Brian Greene
#70. A prediction, in a field where prediction is not possible, is no more than a prejudice.
Malcolm Gladwell
#71. Each artist comes to the painting or sculpture because there he can be told that he, the individual, transcends all classes and flouts all predictions. In the work of art, he finds his uniqueness confirmed.
Ben Shahn
#72. I've ceased making predictions on things because we'll see how they turn out.
David Plouffe
#73. Al Gore is producing enough hot air to make his doomsday predictions about global warming a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Joseph Farah
#74. Never make bad predictions, especially about the futture.
Casey Stengel
#75. The real reason why general relativity is widely accepted is because it made predictions that were borne out by experimental observations.
Brian Greene
#76. I have seen some astrologers who predicted wonderful things; but I have no reason to believe they predicted them only from the stars, or anything of the sort. In many cases it is simply mind-reading. Sometimes wonderful predictions are made, but in many cases it is arrant trash.
Swami Vivekananda
#77. 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.
David Remnick
#78. Philip Tetlock, a psychologist at the University of Pennsylvania, explored these so-called expert predictions in a landmark twenty-year study, which he published in his 2005 book Expert Political Judgment: How Good Is It? How Can We Know?
Daniel Kahneman
#79. And it's interesting, when you look at the predictions made during the peak of the boom in the 1990s, about e-commerce, or internet traffic, or broadband adoption, or internet advertising, they were all right - they were just wrong in time.
Chris Anderson
#80. When you have a perfect free market, it's difficult to predict the future. But when you have a market that is disturbed by government manipulations and money-printing, it's impossible to make any predictions.
Marc Faber
#81. Predictions of failure have never stopped those whose ambitions are driven by their unwavering vision.
Nabil N. Jamal
#82. Predictions are predictions. If you could predict the stock market, you would be super rich. But I have to race the race. It doesn't matter what I've done over the last few years. I have to race at the Olympics.
Mark De Jonge
#83. Berkshire was built on the eternal verities: basic mathematics, basic horse sense, basic fear, and basic diagnosis of human nature to make predictions regarding human behavior. We stuck to the basics with a certain amount of discipline and it has worked out quite well.
Charlie Munger
#84. Data Products are self-adapting, broadly applicable economic engines that derive their value from data and generate more data by influencing human behavior or by making inferences or predictions upon new data.
Benjamin Bengfort
#85. Utopianism substitutes glorious predictions and unachievable promises for knowledge, science, and reason, while laying claim to them all.
Mark R. Levin
#86. The resemblance of the signs of the zodiac to the animals after which they are named ... is as unimpressive as the predictions of astrologers.
Richard Dawkins
#87. The contradictory remarks of politicians are forgotten; the more asinine predictions of pundits are buried with mercy.
Norman Mailer
#88. At a university they had the freshman class make the same predictions that some of the well-known psychics do every year, and they found the freshman class did better
Frederick Lenz
#89. Dreams, and predictions of astrology ... ought to serve but for winter talk by the fireside.
Francis Bacon
#90. We have this very clean picture of science, you know, these well-established rules with which we make predictions. But when you're really doing science, when you're doing research, you're at the edge of what we know.
Lisa Randall
#91. The litmus test for whether you are a competent forecaster is if more information makes your predictions better.
Nate Silver
#92. 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.
Yuan T. Lee
#93. Science is not, despite how it is often portrayed, about absolute truths. It is about developing an understanding of the world, making predictions, and then testing these predictions.
Brian Schmidt
#94. We tend to overestimate the effect of a technology in the short run and underestimate the effect in the long run.
Roy Amara
#95. Except for some effects that I attribute mostly to age, my intuitive thinking is just as prone to overconfidence, extreme predictions, and the planning fallacy as it was before I made a study of these issues.
Daniel Kahneman
#96. We're the tortoise that has outrun the hare because it chose the easy predictions.
Charlie Munger
#97. Fuck the weather forecasters and their predictions. With magic, he'd just turned their Doppler radar upside down.
Sapphire Phelan (Being Familiar With a Witch)
Sapphire Phelan
#98. The more interviews that an expert had done with the press, Tetlock found, the worse his predictions tended to be.
Nate Silver
#99. If the search is for examples that contradict the predictions of standard economic models, a good rule of thumb is to start in France.
Robert H. Frank
#100. My track record is pretty good on predictions.
Ann Coulter
