Quotes About Prediction

people often did not like hearing about their futures, even when they said they wanted to.

In his opinion, prophecy set the conditions that had to be met for a thing to happen; only, meeting them did not mean the thing would happen, just that it could.

A plan revealed is a plan doomed to fail.

An experiment is never a failure solely because it fails to achieve predicted results.

Who really can face the future? All you can do is project from the past, even when the past shows that such projections are often wrong.

We've won it. It's going to get better now. You can sort of tell these things.

MAO-A variants show other important gene/environment interactions. For example, in one study the low-activity MAO-A variant predicts criminality, but only if coupled with high testosterone levels

But I knew how the play would come out. This was like a dress rehearsal after the show has closed down.

In times of great economic change, there are always great transfer of wealth. Even if you do not have much money, it is important to incest in your education... for when the changes come, you will be better prepared for them. Don't be caught unaware and afraid. As I said, no one can predict what will happen, yet it is best to be prepared for whatever happens. And that means getting educated now.

After The Worldly Philosophers, I recommend reading The Creature from Jekyll Island by G. Edward Griffin, Paul Zane Pilzer's Unlimited Wealth, James Dale Davidson's The Sovereign Individual, Robert Preacher's The Crest of the Wave, and Harry Dent's The Great Depression Ahead.

but we cannot count on the fact that it will go up in value.

Fuller predicted that humanity had reached a critical evolutionary point. If humans did not evolve from greed and selfishness to generosity and abundance, humans—as an experiment on earth—would end. He often referred to the rich and powerful who hoarded "god's abundance" only for themselves as "blood clots." He believed that if humans did not "evolve" we would not only kill ourselves, but also kill the ecology of planet earth.

Cousin Jimmy says that a man in Priest Pond says the end of the world is coming soon. I hope it won't come till I've seen everything in it.

I believe you! Miss Ellen nodded. Mark my words, Mr. Meredith, that man is going to fight somebody yet. He's ACHING to. He is going to set the world on fire. If

The black clouds and the white clouds, Black means rain White means no rainToday it was different, It rained despite of white clouds.And nobody got wet.

I do not think that the radio waves I have discovered will have any practical application.

Experimental confirmation of a prediction is merely a measurement. An experiment disproving a prediction is a discovery.

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

Science fiction does not remain fiction for long. And certainly not on the Internet.

A good science fiction story should be able to predict not the automobile but the traffic jam.

Macroeconomics, even with all of our computers and with all of our information - is not an exact science and is incapable of being an exact science.

Engineering is a predictive science, not a manipulative art.

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.

Why, sir, there is every probability that you will soon be able to tax it! Said to William Gladstone, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, when he asked about the practical worth of electricity.