Quotes About Prediction

When a man tells you he's going to hurt you, believe it. They always warn you and they're always right.

La avaricia, como el amor, posee el don de la visión de los acontecimientos futuros, que presiente y adivina.

Avarice, like love, has the gift of second sight, instinctively guessing at future contingencies, and hugging its presentiments.

Throughout history, parents have tried to name their offspring in a manner that would foretell the trajectory of their future. It's one of the first spells humans encounter in this life. Little did your parents know what would happen today, for you, because of your name, but they blessed this day for you.

Nothing favourable comes from speculation.

Fooling around with alternating current is just a waste of time. Nobody will use it, ever." Thomas Edison, 1889

Fortune-telling doesn't reveal the future; it mirrors the present. It resonates against what your subconscious already knows and hauls it up out of the darkness so you can get a good look at it.

Mark my words. The telephone will never become a practical necessity.

Mark my words, Michael Van Gerwen will knock Phil Taylor off his perch one day and be the best darts player on the planet.

Hindsight bias makes surprises vanish.

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.

My prediction for the 2016 race was based on a variety of observational and anecdotal evidence. I listened to Democrats, Republicans and independents across the U.S. I talked to people who consider themselves apolitical.

I don't play roulette, but it's funny: whenever somebody I know is going to Vegas, I'm like, 'Put it on black.'

I venture to prophesy that there lies before us a bitter and an evil time.

You can't know what the future holds, though you might conjecture on it, and if you're psychic, you might venture a guess.

Earth might one day soon resemble the planet Venus.

Every known fact in natural science was divined by the presentiment of somebody, before it was actually verified.

Although almost every theoretical physicist agrees with my prediction that a black hole should glow like a hot body, it would be very difficult to verify experimentally because the temperature of a macroscopic black hole is so low.

I always thought that if those psychic phone lines were for real, I could just call them and not say a word and the psychic on the other end of the phone would rattle off my vital statistics, then tell me all about my future.

Discovery Number One: The Neocortex Learns a Predictive Model of the World

We are not consciously aware of most of the predictions made by the brain unless an error occurs. Trying to understand how the neurons in the neocortex make predictions led to the second discovery.

Science is itself an exercise in prediction.

To predict the next note, you can't just look at the previous note or the previous five notes. The correct prediction may rely on notes that occurred a long time ago.

And as we should all know by now, anytime you predict failure you have an excellent chance of being right.