Predictions Quotes - Page 2

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.

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

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.

The aeroplane is tragically unsuited for ocean service.

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.

Making predictions is tough. Especially for the future.

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.

Prediction is difficult- particularly when it involves the future.

Management is prediction.

A prediction is a prediction because it's predictable.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

Prediction is difficult, especially the future.

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

The thing that people associate with expertise, authoritativeness, kind of with a capital 'A,' don't correlate very well with who's actually good at making predictions.