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I am saying that all predictions concerning climate are highly uncertain. — Freeman Dyson

I take no pleasure in the fact that the scientific predictions I've relayed to popular audiences turn out to be true. — Al Gore

When I look into the Ericsson's mobility report that has predictions till 2018, the majority of people having mobile broadband by 2018 will be on 3G. — Hans Vestberg

I never try to make any far-reaching predictions, so much can happen that it simply only makes you look stupid a few years later. — Linus Torvalds

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

Error held as truth has much the effect of truth. In politics and religion this fact upsets many confident predictions. — George Iles

Four predictions of the Big Bang Theory have now been verified - surely enough to quench even the most biased critics. — Joseph Silk

That's not a prediction, that's a spoiler. — Paul Heyman

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

For Mother Nature, opinions and predictions don't count; surviving is what matters. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

My approach works not by making valid predictions but by allowing me to correct false ones. — George Soros

It is quite clear to me that the Tory Party will get rid of Mrs Thatcher in about 3 years time. — Harold Wilson

A piece of paper doesn't make you a pastor any more than making predictions makes you a prophet. — D.R. Silva

I've learned that the best political reporters never make predictions! — Jodi Kantor

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

The human brain is like a memory system that records every thing that happens to us and makes intelligent predictions based on those experiences. — Daniel Tammet

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

Let there be a special place in Hell for pundits who make predictions. — Rick Perlstein

Dreams, and predictions of astrology ... ought to serve but for winter talk by the fireside. — Francis Bacon

The real reason why general relativity is widely accepted is because it made predictions that were borne out by experimental observations. — Brian Greene

The aeroplane will never fly. — Richard Haldane, 1st Viscount Haldane

A plan is an example of what could happen, not a prediction of what will happen. — Kent Beck

Astrological prayers seem to me to be built on as good reason as the predictions. — Benjamin Stillingfleet

Babson became a sought-after public speaker, and the newspapers reported his predictions as newsworthy events. — Walter Friedman

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

Music is no longer tasted it is swallowed. — Jules Verne

If my fans think I can do everything I say I can do, then they're crazier than I am. After one of his fight predictions turned out to be wrong. — Muhammad Ali

Weather abroad
and weather in the heart alike come on
Regardless of prediction. — Adrienne Rich

Tetlock's words, even when their predictions prove — Steven D. Levitt

Science is not about making predictions or performing experiments. Science is about explaining. — Bill Gaede

You can only predict things after they have happened. — Eugene Ionesco

Social Security has been effective for 70 years; prior predictions of its demise have been totally overstated. — Grace Napolitano

A very friendly boom, like a pair of gleeful handclaps. — James Lighthill

Predictions are just good guesses or stories for the gullible. — Wynne Channing

My biggest prediction for the future is that people are going to start looking after individual investors. — John C. Bogle

I don't think a reporter should give advice or make predictions. — Peter Jennings

Hair-braiding salons and mystic shops littered the block, but she didn't need a psychic to predict her cards read "royally screwed. — Katherine McIntyre

All predictions are wrong, that's one of the few certainties granted to mankind. — Milan Kundera

Agnes was the worst prophet that's ever existed. Because she was always right. That's why the book never sold. — Neil Gaiman

Berkshireis in the business of making easy predictions If a deal looks too hard, the partners simply shelve it. — Charlie Munger

I have learned not to do predictions. It's not helpful, psychologically. I don't sit and fret about things. — Mumia Abu-Jamal

Prediction is difficult, especially the future. — Niels Bohr

Failure to converge. Confidence limits exceeded.
Further predictions unreliable. — Peter Watts

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

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

a good theory is characterized by the fact that it makes a number of predictions that could in principle be disproved or falsified by observation. — Stephen Hawking

Prediction is difficult- particularly when it involves the future. — Mark Twain

Correct predictions result in understanding. Incorrect predictions result in confusion and prompt you to pay attention. — Steven Kotler

We are both disturbed and fascinated by visions of bleak futures, predictions of what might come if we as a society aren't careful. — Marie Lu

It is not the words or the actions you should trust, rather the pattern. — Shannon L. Alder

My track record is pretty good on predictions. — Ann Coulter

We tend to overestimate the effect of a technology in the short run and underestimate the effect in the long run. — Roy Amara

I'm generally considered a conservative in my predictions for disease. — Anthony Fauci

Predictions of failure have never stopped those whose ambitions are driven by their unwavering vision. — Nabil N. Jamal

The only useful function of a statistician is to make predictions, and thus to provide a basis for action. — W. Edwards Deming

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

I'm not trying to frighten you, but only a fool makes predictions based on ignorance; I am not that sort of fool. — Robert A. Heinlein

There is an excellent way to make predictions without the slightest risk of error: predict the past. — Yevgeny Zamyatin

An experiment disproving a prediction is discovery. — Enrico Fermi

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

Prediction is very hard, particularly when it's about the future. — Yogi Berra

Predictions are preposterous. — Jackie Mason

We're mortal, yet without a known expiration date. It's an inevitable fate worthy of acceptance, but not deserving of predictions. — Joe Peterson

I don't make mistakes. I make predictions which immediately turn out to be wrong. — Tony Benn

Love isn't about predictions or behavioural markers. It just happens, and you have no control. — Jamie McGuire

All buildings are predictions. All predictions are wrong. — Stewart Brand

As we explore these possibilities we
must remember that they are just that
- not predictions or prophecies. — Gerard O'Neill

Rail travel at high speed is not possible because passengers, unable to breathe, would die of asphyxia. — Dionysius Lardner

Absolute prediction is completion ... is death! — Frank Herbert

This is my prediction for the future: Whatever hasn't happened will happen, and no one will be safe from it. — John B. S. Haldane

Essentially, the frequentist approach toward statistics seeks to wash its hands of the reason that predictions most often go wrong: human error. — Nate Silver

Predictions of surprising events always prove more accurate if not set down on paper beforehand. — Carl Sagan

Life laughs at predictions and introduces words where we imagined silences, and sudden returns when we thought we would never see each other again. — Jose Saramago

We must now allow ourselves to be blinded to long-term developments by the intensity of the short-term difficulties. — Stafford Cripps

I figure lots of predictions is best. People will forget the ones I get wrong and marvel over the rest. — Alan Cox

Management is prediction. — W. Edwards Deming

Science is about predictions based on predictable fact. Life is about surprises based on the unpredictable reality. — Ori Hofmekler

It will be years - not in my time - before a woman will become Prime Minister — Margaret Thatcher

There are no practical alternatives to air transportation. — Daniel Goldin

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

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

To squander a fortune in public money, billions and billions, stubbornly carrying on with a Concorde we can only sell to ourselves. — Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber

We're the tortoise that has outrun the hare because it chose the easy predictions. — Charlie Munger

The reliance on the heuristic caused predictable biases (systematic errors) in their predictions. — Daniel Kahneman

Making predictions is tough. Especially for the future. — Yogi Berra

Intuitive predictions need to be corrected because they are not regressive and therefore are biased. — Daniel Kahneman

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

A rational prediction has an explanation based on theory. — W. Edwards Deming

Any believable prediction will be wrong. Any correct prediction will be unbelievable. — Kevin Kelly

Every day I make predictions that don't come anywhere close to the mark. — Joe Posnanski

Predictions are nice, if you can make them. But the essence of science lies in explanation, laying bare the fundamental mechanisms of nature. — M. Mitchell Waldrop

Oh well, I suppose lots of people will do it now. — Arthur Whitten Brown

This fellow Charles Lindbergh will never make it. He's doomed. — Harry Frank Guggenheim

I am frequently astonished that it so often results in correct predictions of experimental results. — Murray Gell-Mann

It is our common experience as human beings that the results of social forces seem to admit only of 'probabilistic' predictions. — John Harsanyi

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

Predictions are hard, especially abot the future. — Niels Bohr

Making predictions is like throwing a dartboard at the fixture list — Mike Parry

Prediction is a very difficult business, particularly about the future — Fred Singer

It's always difficult to make predictions about the future. — Hermann E. Ott