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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.
— Leonardo Da Vinci
Never make bad predictions, especially about the futture.
— Casey Stengel
In my opinion, poets talk through the symptoms of disease. These symptoms of disease are predictions, screams, and songs.
— Kim Hyesoon
Error held as truth has much the effect of truth. In politics and religion this fact upsets many confident predictions.
— George Iles
We must prove our predictions about the future with action.
— George Jackson
Four predictions of the Big Bang Theory have now been verified - surely enough to quench even the most biased critics.
— Joseph Silk
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
It is quite clear to me that the Tory Party will get rid of Mrs Thatcher in about 3 years time.
— Harold Wilson
Dreams, and predictions of astrology ... ought to serve but for winter talk by the fireside.
— Francis Bacon
The aeroplane will never fly.
— Richard Haldane, 1st Viscount Haldane
It is the ability to make predictions about the future that is the crux of intelligence.
— Jeff Hawkins
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
Astrological prayers seem to me to be built on as good reason as the predictions.
— Benjamin Stillingfleet
Although our eyes can not penetrate the darkness of the future, scientific geopolitical analysis enables us to make certain predictions.
— Karl Haushofer
Babson became a sought-after public speaker, and the newspapers reported his predictions as newsworthy events.
— Walter Friedman
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
Nonsense," said the witcher. "And what's more, it doesn't rhyme. All decent predictions rhyme.
— Andrzej Sapkowski
It is only fair to admit, however, that my batting average in the crystal ball league is point, zero, zero, zero.
— Leslie Ford
The autonomy of her artificial intelligence had surpassed even my wildest predictions.
— Folco Chevallier
We want to get 80%-85% of predictions right, not 100%. Or else we calibrated our estimates in the wrong way.
— Nate Silver
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
The aeroplane is tragically unsuited for ocean service.
— Hugo Eckener
The contradictory remarks of politicians are forgotten; the more asinine predictions of pundits are buried with mercy.
— Norman Mailer
We must now allow ourselves to be blinded to long-term developments by the intensity of the short-term difficulties.
— Stafford Cripps
The more interviews that an expert had done with the press, Tetlock found, the worse his predictions tended to be.
— Nate Silver
If I am going to trash others for their dumb predictions, I must at least hold myself to the same sort of accountability.
— Barry Ritholtz
The litmus test for whether you are a competent forecaster is if more information makes your predictions better.
— Nate Silver
Science is about predictions based on predictable fact. Life is about surprises based on the unpredictable reality.
— Ori Hofmekler
It is difficult and even dangerous to make predictions - especially about the future - of the bilateral relationship.
— Patrick Mendis
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
Indeed, the uncertainty principle ensures that in the nature of things physics is unable to do more than make statistical predictions.
— Neil Postman
With high hope for the future, no prediction is ventured.
— Abraham Lincoln
When you have two competing theories that make exactly the same predictions, the simpler one is the better.
— William Of Ockham
One of the things that I think we have learned is that we should all be very careful about making predictions about the future.
— William J. Clinton
Predictions are hard, especially abot the future.
— Niels Bohr
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
It is our common experience as human beings that the results of social forces seem to admit only of 'probabilistic' predictions.
— John Harsanyi
If the facts are contrary to any predictions, then the hypothesis is wrong no matter how appealing.
— David Douglass
Perhaps the safest prediction we can make about the future is that it will surprise us.
— George Leonard
The only thing that we know about financial predictions of start-ups is that 100 percent of them are wrong
— Brad Feld
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
Berkshireis in the business of making easy predictions If a deal looks too hard, the partners simply shelve it.
— Charlie Munger
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
Predictions are just good guesses or stories for the gullible.
— Wynne Channing
There is an excellent way to make predictions without the slightest risk of error: predict the past.
— Yevgeny Zamyatin
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
The only useful function of a statistician is to make predictions, and thus to provide a basis for action.
— W. Edwards Deming
My biggest prediction for the future is that people are going to start looking after individual investors.
— John C. Bogle
The reliance on the heuristic caused predictable biases (systematic errors) in their predictions.
— Daniel Kahneman
It is not the words or the actions you should trust, rather the pattern.
— Shannon L. Alder
Agnes was the worst prophet that's ever existed. Because she was always right. That's why the book never sold.
— Neil Gaiman
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
It's always difficult to make predictions about the future.
— Hermann E. Ott
Prediction is difficult, especially the future.
— Niels Bohr