"Predictions" Quotes . Top 31 Short Quotes About "Predictions"

"There have been predictions that the world will come to an end on 21.12.12. But I look around me and I see so much scope for hope."

--- A. R. Rahman

#Predictions #Ends #World

"What man-made machine will ever achieve the complete perfection of even the goose's wing?"

--- Abbas ibn Firnas

#Achieve #Made #Predictions

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

--- Abraham Lincoln

#Predictions #Hope For The Future #Inaugural Address

"Fellow countrymen: At this second appearing to take the oath of the Presidential office, there is less occasion for an extended address than there was at the first...The progress of our arms, upon which all else chiefly depends, is as well known to the public as to myself; and it is, I trust, reasonably satisfactory and encouraging to all. With high hope for the future, no prediction in regard to it is ventured."

--- Abraham Lincoln

#Countrymen #Predictions #Known

"Weather abroad and weather in the heart alike come on Regardless of prediction."

--- Adrienne Rich

#Predictions #Heart #Weather

"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."

--- Ahmed H. Zewail

#Thinking #Predictions #Mistake

"Despite all the dire predictions made in 2001, the Afghans have given the international community, its aid workers and soldiers a large window of opportunity to repair the damage done by 25 years of war. That window, which has stayed open for nearly five years, with amazing good will from the Afghans, is threatening to close unless the world wakes up and deals with the crisis."

--- Ahmed Rashid

#International Community #Window Of Opportunity #Five Years

"I take no pleasure in the fact that the scientific predictions I’ve relayed to popular audiences turn out to be true."

--- Al Gore

#Predictions #Facts #Gore

"In this acausal world, scientists are helpless. Their predictions become postdictions- Their equations become justifications, their logic, illogic. Scientists turn reckless and mutter like gamblers who cannot stop betting. Scientists are buffoons, not because they are rational but because the cosmos is irrational. Or perhaps it is not because the cosmos is irrational but because they are rational. Who can say which, in an acausal world?"

--- Alan Lightman

#Helpless #Predictions #Betting

"If to enjoy even an enjoyable present we must have the assurance of a happy future, we are “crying for the moon.” We have no such assurance. The best predictions are still matters of probability rather than certainty, and to the best of our knowledge every one of us is going to suffer and die. If, then, we cannot live happily without an assured future, we are certainly not adapted to living in a finite world where, despite the best plans, accidents will happen, and where death comes at the end."

--- Alan Watts

#Certainty #Predictions #Ends

"Occurrences in this domain are beyond the reach of exact prediction because of the variety of factors in operation, not because of any lack of order in nature."

--- Albert Einstein

#Domain #Love #Predictions

"There is not the slightest indication that nuclear energy will ever be obtainable. It would mean that the atom would have to be shattered at will."

--- Albert Einstein

#Mean #Predicting The Future #Predictions

"When the number of factors coming into play in a phenomenological complex is too large scientific method in most cases fails. One need only think of the weather, in which case the prediction even for a few days ahead is impossible."

--- Albert Einstein

#Thinking #Complexes #Play

"When the number of factors coming into play in a phenomenological complex is too large scientific method in most cases fails. One need only think of the weather, in which case the prediction even for a few days ahead is impossible. Nevertheless, no one doubts that we are confronted with a causal connection whose causal components are in the main known to us. Occurrences in this domain are beyond the reach of exact prediction because of the variety of factors in operation, not because of any lack of order in nature."

--- Albert Einstein

#Thinking #Domain #Complexes

"Now my playmates never failed to wink and smile mockingly at me when one of them called 'Man flies!' for at the word I would always lift my finger very high, as a sign of absolute conviction; and I refused with energy to pay the forfeit. The more they laughed at me, the happier I was, hoping that some day the laugh would be on my side."

--- Alberto Santos-Dumont

#Forfeit #Predictions #Absolutes

"I have had the feeling that a properly constructed flying-machine should be capable of being flown as a kite; and conversely, that a properly constructed kite should be capable of use as a flying-machine when driven by its own propellers."

--- Alexander Graham Bell

#Predictions #Aviation #Feelings

"For I dipt into the future, far as human eye could see, Saw the vision of the world, and all the wonder that would be; Saw the heavens fill with commerce, Argosies of magic sails, Pilots of the purple twilight, dropping down with costly bales; Heard the heavens fill with shouting, and there rain'd a ghastly dew, From the nations' airy navies grappling in the central blue."

--- Alfred the Great

#Grappling #Dew #Purple

"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

#Economy #Complexes #Predictions

"We are coming into a new era of flight, an ear in which all past conception of time and distance is changing and changing at a very, very rapid rate."

--- Allan Haines Loughead

#Conception #Rapids #Ears

"The usefulness of the models in constructing a testable theory of the process is severely limited by the quickly increasing number of parameters which must be estimated in order to compare the predictions of the models with empirical results."

--- Anatol Rapoport

#Predictions #Order #Usefulness

"I'm not keen on making predictions."

--- Andrew Flintoff

#Predictions

"My track record is pretty good on predictions."

--- Ann Coulter

#Predictions #Track Record #Track

"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

#Units #Predictions #Questioning

"Im generally considered a conservative in my predictions for disease."

--- Anthony S. Fauci

#Predictions #Conservative #Disease

"Using an artful tool does not make one a dry technician. It seems to me that people that are anxious about our technical advancement, confuse means and ends. Naturally a person that only works for material gain will not harvest something that is worth living for. But the machine is not an end in itself. The airplane is not an end. It is a tool. Just like the plough."

--- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

#People #Mean #Advancement

"We are all youthful barbarians, and only our new toys bring us excitement. That has been the sole purpose of our flights. This one flies higher, that one faster. But now we will make ourselves at home. We will forget the machine, the tool. It is no longer complex; it does what it is supposed to do, unnoticed. And through this tool we will find again the old nature, the nature of the gardener, the navigator, the poet."

--- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

#Complexes #Predictions #Sole

"When we think that the machine will harm man, then it is perhaps because we are not yet capable of judging the rapid changes it has brought about. We hardly feel at home in this landscape of mines and power stations. We have just moved into this new home that we have not even finished yet. Everything around us has changed so fast - personal relations, working conditions, habits. Even our state of mind is in turmoil."

--- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

#Thinking #State Of Mind #Rapids

"But I don't think I have any particular talent for prediction, because when you have three or four elements in hand, you don't have to be a genius to reach certain conclusions."

--- Antonio Tabucchi

#Thinking #Talent #Predictions

"Predictions are uttered by prophets (free of charge); by clairvoyants (who usually charge a fee, and are therefore more honored in their day than prophets); and by futurologists (salaried). Prediction is the business of prophets, clairvoyants, and futurologists. It is not the business of novelists. A novelist's business is lying."

--- Ursula K. Le Guin

#Honored #Prophet #Predictions

"Science fiction is not predictive; it is descriptive.... Prediction is the business of prophets, clairvoyants, and futurologists. It is not the business of novelists. A novelist's business is lying.... Open your eyes; listen, listen. That is what the novelists say. But they don't tell you what you will see and hear. All they can tell you is what they have seen and heard, in their time in this world, a third of it spent in sleep and dreaming, another third of it spent in telling lies."

--- Ursula K. Le Guin

#Heard #Eye #Prophet

"Legends of prediction are common throughout the whole Household of Man. Gods speak, spirits speak, computers speak. Oracular ambiguity or statistical probability provides loopholes, and discrepancies are expunged by Faith."

--- Ursula K. Le Guin

#Legends #Predictions #Ambiguity

31 "Predictions" Quotes