Predictions Quotes - Page 3

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.

I have discovered that a screw-shaped device such as this, if it is well made from starched linen, will rise in the air if turned quickly.

I don't read, much less follow, the valuations or predictions. I study the numbers.

Perhaps the safest prediction we can make about the future is that it will surprise us.

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

The exploration of the planets is now closer to us in time than the exploration of Africa by Stanley and Livingstone.

I have yet to see a successful prediction about the physical world that was inferred or extrapolated from the content of any religions document.

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

This fellow Charles Lindbergh will never make it. He's doomed.

If the facts are contrary to any predictions, then the hypothesis is wrong no matter how appealing.

Oh well, I suppose lots of people will do it now.

The more unpredictable the world is the more we rely on predictions.

What do you call an economist with a prediction? Wrong.

Any believable prediction will be wrong. Any correct prediction will be unbelievable.

Prediction is a very difficult business, particularly about the future

Prediction is a low form of journalism.

A model is a good model if first it interprets a wide range of observations in terms of a simple and elegant model, and second if the model makes definite predictions that can be tested, and possibly falsified, by observation.

...paranormal phenomena such as apports, prediction, telepathy, dowsing and the like can be explained by an extended physics as potentially real effects.

My predictions are notably inaccurate

The resemblance of the signs of the zodiac to the animals after which they are named... is as unimpressive as the predictions of astrologers.

I don't know anything about politics. I wouldn't put too much into my prediction on politics.

Predictions are hard, especially abot the future.

We want to get 80%-85% of predictions right, not 100%. Or else we calibrated our estimates in the wrong way.

Making predictions is like throwing a dartboard at the fixture list

A prediction, in a field where prediction is not possible, is no more than a prejudice.