Quotes About Prediction

The hypotheses we accept ought to explain phenomena which we have observed. But they ought to do more than this: our hypotheses ought to foretell phenomena which have not yet been observed.

One thing I learned from meteorology is that being an actual science was no guarantee of exactness.

Today's science fiction is tomorrow's science fact.

I've called science fiction 'reality ahead of schedule'

Till facts are grouped & called there can be no prediction. The only advantage of discovering laws is to foretell what will happen & to see bearing of scattered facts.

One could write a history of science in reverse by assembling the solemn pronouncements of highest authority about what could not be done and could never happen.

Whereas a novice makes moves until he gets checkmated (proof), a Grand Master realizes 20 moves in advance that it's futile to continue playing (conceptualizing).

What the use of P [the significance level] implies, therefore, is that a hypothesis that may be true may be rejected because it has not predicted observable results that have not occurred.

I am walking today because of chiropractic care I received years ago. I predict a great future for the science of chiropractic.

Futurism today is led by science-fiction writers, by sociologists, by historians. Now, I have nothing against them. I'm sure they do great work. But they're not scientists. They're clueless.

Science predicts that many different kinds of universe will be spontaneously created out of nothing. It is a matter of chance which we are in.

Whenever people have used religious documents to make accurate predictions about our base knowledge of the physical world, they have been famously wrong.

For me to sit down here, even as a Nobel Laureate and make a prediction about which science I think that will be a mistake.

Prediction is difficult, especially the future.

One may say that predictions are dangerous particularly for the future. If the danger involved in a prediction is not incurred, no consequence follows and the uncertainty principle is not violated.

Science fiction seldom attempts to predict the future. More often than not, it tries to prevent the future.

Science fiction is a field of writing where, month after month, every printed word implies to hundreds of thousands of people: 'There is change. Look, today's fantastic story is tomorrow's fact.

The thing about a theory in science is it allows you make predictions. Evolutionary theory allows us to predict what apples will taste good next harvest.

Science is prediction, not explanation.

Science is as yet in its infancy, and we can foretell little of the future save that the thing that has not been is the thing that shall be; that no beliefs, no values, no institutions are safe.

Science fiction is using an exploration of where we might be, to explore where it seems like we are heading, in order to reveal exactly where we are.

...in principle, one can predict everything in the universe solely from physical laws. Thus, the long-standing 'first cause' problem intrinsic in cosmology has been finally dispelled.

Identify the dominant philosophy of a society and you can predict its future.

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