Quotes About Prediction

How was one to foresee and guard against everything?

One way to pick a future is to believe it's inevitable.

And the beauty of the anthropic principle is that it tells us, against all intuition, that a chemical model need only predict that life will arise on one planet in a billion billion to give us a good and entirely satisfying explanation for the presence of life here.

Prediction in a complex world is a chancy business. Every decision that a survival machine takes is a gamble, and it is the business of genes to program brains in advance so that on average they take decisions that pay off. The currency used in the casino of evolution is survival, strictly gene survival, but for many purposes individual survival is a reasonable approximation.

Prediction in a complex world is a chancy business. Every decision that a survival machine takes is a gamble, and it is the business of genes to program brains in advance so that on average they take decisions that pay off.

Survival machines that can simulate the future are one jump ahead of survival machines who can only learn on the basis of overt trial and error.

A related but more complex aspect of working memory gives us the ability to draw on past learning or experience and apply it to the situation at hand or predict future outcomes.

I can't do anything to you now, but time can. Time will tell. It always does.

Samo oni koji vide šta ?e se dogoditi prežive, mora da je to pravilo.

Frances Catherine, I'm going to win this argument," Judith announced. She nodded to her friend when she made that prediction. "Why?" "Because it's my turn," she explained. "You may win the next argument." "Lord, you're stubborn.

Prophecies don't simply come about of themselves, you know. They need a little helping along.

as far as tomorrow is concerned, even the weather report isn't very reliable, you know.

If you could know what was going to happen tomorrow so easily, there wouldn't be much use for fortunetellers, would there?

The future is forever a projection of the present

En resumen, lo que en 1848 tal vez impresionara a un lector sin compromisos como retórica revolucionaria -o, a lo sumo, como una predicción creíble- puede hoy leerse como una concisa caracterización del capitalismo de fines del siglo XX.

In 1795, I sent him another letter, telling him, that danger still stood before us, and that the truth of what I had written in 1792 was to be proved by 12 men.

I shall go further and say that even if an examination of the past could lead to any valid prediction concerning man's future, that prediction would be the contrary of reassuring.

How can a man marry wisely in his twenties? The girl he's going to wind up wanting hasn't even been born.

Many count their chickens before they are hatched; and where they expect bacon, meet with broken bones.

The man who will whip me will be fast, strong and hasn't been born yet.

For many men that stumble at the threshold are well foretold that danger lurks within.

One need not be a prophet to be aware of impending dangers. An accidental combination of experience and interest will often reveal events to one man under aspects which few yet see.

Wise men say, and not without reason, that whosoever wished to foresee the future might consult the past.

Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.