Quotes About Prediction

A writer may tell me that he thinks man will ultimately become an ostrich. I cannot properly contradict him.

There is no better boat than a horoscope to help a man cross over the sea of life.

Any man who is a bear on the future of this country will go broke.

An unsophisticated forecaster uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts - for support rather than for illumination.

If a man can predict his own death and resurrection, and pull it off, I just go with whatever that man says

I predict the absolute fullness of man's operation on planet Earth by the year 2000 A.D.

If no one can do that, yeah, Donald Trump better man the lifeboats, because there's some significant chance he'll win the nomination.

A black man will be elected President of the United States. I'm sorry, that's in the year 10,000.

Supersonic airplanes have carried men at more than 2,000 miles per hour and there are reasons to believe that this speed will be doubled by 1960 or so.

Old men and comets have been reverenced for the same reason: their long beards, and pretences to foretell events.

They wouldn't have

It is what you don't expect," he'd said, "that most needs looking for." "Do

You know it's true… Every disaster movie begins with a scientist being ignored.

Physics is the only profession in which prophecy is not only accurate but routine.

These waves, predicted by Einstein, are ripples moving at the speed of light across the fabric of space-time, and are generated by severe gravitational disturbances, such as the collision of two black holes.

Earth's oceans will boil away about a billion years

European sense. No one can predict how it will end because there is no precedent for it.

financial markets saw the war of 1914–18 coming, we should expect to see declines in bond prices or rises in bond yields (since the yield is essentially the interest paid on a bond divided by its market price).

No one can know the future, least of all, a historian, whose business is the past.

Very few economists foresaw the crisis, but a great many have tried retrospectively to explain it, generating a large literature of distinctly mixed quality.

Historians are not scientists. They cannot (and should not even trying to) establish universal laws of social or political physics with reliable predictive powers. Why? Because there is no possibility of repeating the single, multi-millennium experiment that constant to the past. The sample size of human history is one.

It is a common fault not to anticipate storms when the sea is calm.

not restricting themselves to dealing with present threats but using every means at their disposal to foresee and forestall future problems as well. Seen in advance, trouble is easily dealt with; wait until it's on top of you and your reaction will come too late, the malaise is already irreversible.

Maybe my intuition has been warning me about something I don't quite understand but shouldn't be underestimated.…