Quotes About Prediction

Când aveam 12 ani, unul dintre prietenii mei a pariat cu un altul, pe o pung? de bomboane, c? n-o s? se aleag? nimic de mine. Nu ÅŸtiu dac? pariul a fost respectat ÅŸi, dac? da, care dintre cei doi a avut dreptate.

My prediction is that we will know the mind of God by the end of this century.

Las teorías cuánticas han resultado ser notablemente precisas en la predicción de acontecimientos a dichas escalas, y también reproducen las predicciones de las viejas teorías clásicas cuando son aplicadas al mundo macroscópico de la vida corriente.

We can't predict what that will be or when we will find it because if we knew that, we would have found it already!

Do the laws governing the universe allow us to predict exactly what is going to happen to us in the future? The short answer is no, and yes. In principle, the laws allow us to predict the future. But in practice the calculations are often too difficult.

Cada vez que observamos novos experimentos coincidirem com as previsões, a teoria sobrevive e nossa confiança nela aumenta; porém, se em algum momento uma nova observação a contradiz, temos de abandonar a teoria ou modificá-la. Pelo

I regard it as almost inevitable that either a nuclear confrontation or environmental catastrophe will cripple the Earth at some point in the next 1,000 years

Economics is also an effective theory, based on the notion of free will plus the assumption that people evaluate their possible alternative courses of action and choose the best. That effective theory is only moderately successful in predicting behavior because, as we all know, decisions are often not rational or are based on a defective analysis of the consequences of the choice. This is why the world is in such a mess.

Kita jelas tak bisa memprediksi peristiwa masa depan dengan tepat jika tak bisa mengukur keadaan alam semesta sekarang dengan tepat! Kita masih dapat membayangkan ada set hukum yang mengatur peristiwa sepenuhnya bagi suatu sosok supranatural, yang dapat mengamati keadaan semesta sekarang tanpa mengganggu.

Tôi nh?n ra r?ng ngay c? nh?ng ng??i luôn kh?ng ??nh m?i th? ??u Ä'ã ???c s?p ??t trÆ°á»›c và s? ch?ng làm gì có th? thay ??i ???c cÅ©ng v?n quan sát trÆ°á»›c khi qua ???ng.

While physics and mathematics may tell us how the universe began, they are not much use in predicting human behavior because there are far too many equations to solve.

Lots of people have got a little of what I call the shining, but mostly it's just a twinkle---the kind of thing that lets em know what the DJ's going to play next on the radio or that the phone's gonna ring pretty soon.

In case you didn't know it, friend, the Weather Bureau can post tornado warnings, but when it comes to telling exactly when and where they'll touch down, they don't know fuck-all.

Sometimes you think you can see around corners, and maybe you can.

What was he thinking? The Internet did not predict the future; only the pink Kindle did that.

How beautiful would history have been if it could be written beforehand and then acted out like drama!

Sentences will be confined to museums if the emptiness of writing persists," predicted Georges Bataille.

Only lie about the future.

The future is certain. It is just not known.

I got the feeling there was going to be a whole lot more conversation once I was out of the room.

Charles Darwin, who had witnessed the atrocities perpetrated against Argentina's native Indians by Juan Manuel de Rosas, had predicted that "the country will be in the hands of white Gaucho savages instead of copper-coloured Indians. The former being a little superior in education, as they are inferior in every moral virtue.

Moderates and conservatives were most accurate in their predictions, whether they are pretending to be liberals or conservatives. Liberals were the least accurate.

Mischel discovers that the number of seconds you waited to ring the bell in 1970 predicts not only what your parents say about you as a teenager but also the likelihood that you were admitted to a top university. Children who were able to overcome stimulus control and delay gratification for a few extra minutes in 1970 were better able to resist temptation as teenagers, to focus on their studies, and to control themselves when things didn't go the way they wanted.27

Of course, we could do simulations with random number generators and make statistical predictions about long-term outcomes. But suppose that what looks to us like a random event is really controlled by forces outside our perceptible sphere?