Quotes About Prediction

To know, and only at a glance, that a teenage girl would become his wife would have to be close to 100 percent anima projection!

If you want to know the outcome of a game before the game has even started, you need to control each side.

The most powerful weapon in chess is to have the next move.

Events don't actually occur as often as people predict they will. And this in turn is related to hindsight bias (the tendency to see past events as being more predictable than they were at the time), which I'll discuss shortly.

Chaos: when the present determines the future, but the approximate present does not approximately determine the future.

It makes sense to predict likely future performance from past performance. Indeed, we often don't have much else to go on. Unfortunately, however, the past can be an uncertain guide to the future.

Smyth's predictions of the date of the Second Coming, as with everyone else's predictions of this event, have proved inaccurate.

This process of error correction is so fundamental to our biology that distinct circuits of the brain appear to coordinate learning that results from error. One of these error correction pathways involves the cerebellum.3 The cerebellum receives electrical information from a part of the brain stem called the inferior olive when a sensory prediction error occurs. The cerebellum uses these error signals to predict and correct for errors that might occur in the future.

1. Anticipate what's going to happen.

The edge of the speed envelope should be dictated by the view ahead, not by memory or prediction. As the view expands, speed can increase. But when the view contracts, immediately reduce speed so that you can always come to a complete stop within the roadway you can see ahead. The more you must predict what the road is doing beyond your view, the greater the risk.

What's the use of having developed a science well enough to make predictions, if in the end all we're willing to do is stand around and wait for them to come true? —DR. SHERWOOD ROWLAND

God created astrologers to make pollsters look accurate.

On the third day after Jesus' own death, He came out of the grave to give the world a sign it cannot deny. For a man to predict His own death and resurrection was something only God could do.

One should always look to the end of everything, how it will finally come out. For the god has shown blessedness to many only to overturn them utterly in the end.

A wise God shrouds the future in obscure darkness.

A wise God shrouds the future in obscure darkness. [Lat., Prudens futuri temporis exitum Caliginosa nocte premit deus.]

The prophets, who were very many, proclaim and declare the one God; for, being filled with the inspiration of the one God, they predicted things to come, with agreeing and harmonious voice.

The way of God is complex, he is hard for us to predict. He moves the pieces and they come somehow into a kind of order.

Everyone who believes in God at all believes that he knows what you and I are going to do tomorrow.

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

I really thought that I'd be doing Shakespeare, honest to God. I did not foresee the whole action television thing. That was God's joke.

The most malicious god is the god of the counted chicken.

Newspapers do a good job telling me what happened yesterday, but they'd be a lot more impressive if they could tell me what's going to happen tomorrow.

If I know you're very good in music, I can predict with just about zero accuracy whether you're going to be good or bad in other things.