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

The idea that the future is unpredictable is undermined every day by the ease with which the past is explained.

There are at the present time two great nations in the world, which started from different points, but seem to tend towards the same end. I allude to the Russians and the Americans. Both of...

You know the logics setup. You got a logic in your house. It looks like a vision receiver used to, only it’s got keys instead of dials and you punch the keys for what you...

The groundhog is like most other prophets; it delivers its prediction and then disappears.

Our reasons are not prophets When oft our fancies are.

Love isn’t about predictions or behavioural markers. It just happens, and you have no control.

One can talk good and shower down roses, but it’s the receiver that has to walk through the thorns, and all its false expectations.

Enlightened spirit of the age is not the principal of life but a mirror that lets us see life through it’s view.

The behavior of a human being in sexual matters is often a prototype for the whole of his other modes of reaction in life.

In the year 1456 … a Comet was seen passing Retrograde between the Earth and the sun… Hence I dare venture to foretell, that it will return again in the year 1758.

Do we think we know enough to chart where we are on the arc of our lives? Forgive us, Father, for the arrogance of such projections. What do they gain us? If we project nothing...

If you were destined to be a poet, then you won’t brainstorm for lines that rhymes. If you were destined to be a celebrity, then you shouldn’t start searching for fans. If you are truly...

The fantastic advances in the field of electronic communication constitute a greater danger to the privacy of the individual.

It sounds like a fairy-tale, but not only that; this story of what man by his science and practical inventions has achieved on this earth, where he first appeared as a weakly member of the...

As to Bell’s talking telegraph, it only creates interest in scientific circles, and, as a toy it is beautiful; but … its commercial value will be limited.

If a palmist grasp my palm, and look into it, without seeing a single line, what would he read?

A time will come when men will stretch out their eyes. They should see planets like our Earth.

The dogs were really keening now, like Irish widows.

However, robust evidence shows that people systematically overestimate the probability of positive future contingencies, and underestimate the probability of negative ones — only those who are depressed or dysphoric come to accurate assessments.

In a world with amazing amounts of statistics and demographics available, If you don’t utilize foresight, statistics, demographics, projections and predictions the competition will.

The year 2100 will see eugenics universally established. In past ages, the law governing the survival of the fittest roughly weeded out the less desirable strains. Then man’s new sense of pity began to interfere...

The future is like a corridor into which we can see only by the light coming from behind.

I’m convinced that before the year 2000 is over, the first child will have been born on the moon.

If you can predict the future, you can change the past.

A mathematician is an individual who believes that prophesying that his dog will die if he deprives it of food constitutes a prediction.

Interviews were invented to make journalism less passive. Instead of waiting for something to happen, journalists ask someone what should or could happen.

I am well convinced that Aerial Navigation will form a most prominent feature in the progress of civilization. (1804)

Distinguishing the signal from the noise requires both scientific knowledge and self-knowledge: the serenity to accept the things we cannot predict, the courage to predict the things we can, and the wisdom to know the...

Whereas a novice makes moves until he gets checkmated (proof), a Grand Master realizes 20 moves in advance that it’s futile to continue playing (conceptualizing).

The fate of man does not chase him as much as he chases his fate.

It’s always funny that you can try and try again to steal all your critics’ ammo, predict their responses, but no matter what, they’ll still have a water gun stashed somewhere.

When we advance more confident claims and they fail to come to fruition, this constitutes much more powerful evidence against our hypothesis. We can’t really blame anyone for losing faith when this occurs

Science is not about making predictions or performing experiments. Science is about explaining.

I was not predicting the future, I was trying to prevent it.

Recent brain scans have shed light on how the brain simulates the future. These simulation are done mainly in the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex, the CEO of the brain, using memories of the past. On one...

…the ratings agencies’ problem was in being unable or uninterested in appreciating the distinction between risk and uncertainty.

I think I liked the idea better when it was in my head.

I remember when we found the first population of living Cerion agassizi in central Eleuthera. Our hypothesis of Cerion’s general pattern required that two predictions be affirmed (or else we were in trouble): this population...

Predictions of the future are never anything but projections of present automatic processes and procedures, that is, of occurrences that are likely to come to pass if men do not act and if nothing unexpected...

I never assume anything. I anticipate the possibilities and allow my imagination to create the future.

Something tells me you’re going to be no fun come Christmas.

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.

Should the research worker of the future discover some means of releasing this [atomic] energy in a form which could be employed, the human race will have at its command powers beyond the dream of...

That Muhammad could predict certain events does not prove that he was a prophet: he may have been able to guess successfully, but this does not mean that he had real knowledge of the future....

I have a foreboding of an America in my children’s or grandchildren’s time — when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other...

You couldn’t predict what was going to happen for one simple reason: people.

Personally I think there is no doubt that sub-atomic energy is available all around us, and that one day man will release and control its almost infinite power. We cannot prevent him from doing so...