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• It is very difficult to make an accurate prediction, especially about the future.

  Niels Bohr

  Difficult, Accurate

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• We need to stop, and admit it: we have a prediction problem. We love to predict things—and we aren’t very good at it.

  Nate Silver

  Needs, Problem, Very Good

  Nate Silver (2012). “The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail-but Some Don't”, p.19, Penguin

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• On the conservative side, today's libertarianism is far more dogmatic and devoid of qualification than the liberalism of Adam Smith or J.S. Mill. Like Marxism, libertarianism is a utopian worldview based on an economic-determinist vision of history. Unlike Marxism, libertarianism is highly specific in its predictions about the transition to the utopian world order, rendering it vulnerable to fact.

  Michael Lind

  Order, Vision, Transition

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• The first men who set out for Mars had better make sure they leave everything at home in apple-pie order. They won't get back to earth for more than two and a half years. The difficulties of a trip to mars are formidable. . . . What curious information will these first explorers carry back from Mars? Nobody knows-and its extremely doubtful that anyone now living will ever know. All that can be said with certainty today is this: the trip will be made, and will be made . . . someday.

  Wernher von Braun

  Future, Home, Men

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• Despite the immense distance between our own solar system (including the earth) and the nearest other solar systems, a journey from one system to another is theoretically possible, once an unlimited source of power is developed.

  Hermann Oberth

  Distance, Future, Journey

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• The exploration of the planets is now closer to us in time than the exploration of Africa by Stanley and Livingstone.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Future, Exploration, Planets

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• If we were to start today on an organized and well-supported space program I believe a practical passenger rocket can be built and tested within ten years.

  Wernher von Braun

  Future, Believe, Space

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• Space travel is utter bilge. I don't think anybody will ever put up enough money to do such a thing. . . . It is all rather rot.

  Richard van der Riet Woolley

  Future, Thinking, Space

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• U.S. has lost a battle more important and greater than Pearl Harbor.

  Edward Teller

  Future, Important, Battle

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• Really exotic methods of propulsion . . . will have to be devised to get there. How it will be done, I do not know. Whether it will be done, I am not quite certain. But I would bet it can be done.

  Edward Teller

  Future, Exotic, Done

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• The one prediction that never comes true is, 'You'll thank me for telling you this.

  Judith Martin

  Conversation, Busybodies

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• The paradigm of physics - with its interplay of data, theory and prediction - is the most powerful in science.

  Geoffrey West

  Powerful, Data, Physics

  "The City in Numbers: an Equation That Explains Urban Life". wired.co.uk, March 29, 2011.

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• 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.

  Edward Teller

  Future, Science, Uncertainty Principle

  Edward Teller, Wendy Teller, Wilson Talley (2013). “Conversations on the Dark Secrets of Physics”, p.235, Basic Books

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• The important prediction is not the automobile, but the parking problem; not radio, but the soap opera; not the income tax, but the expense account; not the Bomb, but the nuclear stalemate

  Isaac Asimov

  Important, Income, Nuclear

  Isaac Asimov (1972). “From earth to heaven”

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• I've had only one idea in my life - a true idee fixe. To put it as bluntly as possible - the idea of having my own way. 'Control!' expresses it. The control of human behavior. In my early experimental days it was a frenzied, selfish desire to dominate. I remember the rage I used to feel when a prediction went awry. I could have shouted at the subjects of my experiments, 'Behave, damn you! Behave as you ought!

  B. F. Skinner

  Selfish, Damn You, Ideas

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• I have learned not to do predictions. It's not helpful, psychologically. I don't sit and fret about things.

  Mumia Abu-Jamal

  Helpful, I Have Learned

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• If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.

  M. H. Abrams

  Views, Decades, One Thing

  "Honored literary scholar M.H. Abrams continues his labors (of love)". Interview with Linda Grace-Kobas, news.cornell.edu. June 11, 1999.

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• That's not a prediction, that's a spoiler.

  Paul Heyman

  Wwe, Spoilers

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• I first came into the labor force in 1941 when the minimum wage was 40 cents an hour, and that was my first job. And each time that we've tried to boost the lower level of salary for the most underpaid workers, there have been predictions of catastrophe. But each time, in [m]y opinion, the change has helped our Nation and its economic strength.

  Jimmy Carter

  Jobs, Labor Force, Salary

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• You can't make money with a consensus accurate prediction.

  Bill Gurley

  Making Money, Accurate, Consensus

  "Gurley and Om" by Fred Wilson, www.businessinsider.com. December 13, 2012.

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• Science is about predictions based on predictable fact. Life is about surprises based on the unpredictable reality.

  Ori Hofmekler

  Reality, Facts, Life Is

  Ori Hofmekler (2010). “Maximum Muscle, Minimum Fat: The Secret Science Behind Physical Transformation”, p.14, North Atlantic Books

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• There have been predictions that the world will come to an end on 21.12.12. But I look around me and I see so much scope for hope.

  A. R. Rahman

  Looks, World, Scope

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• Nobody believes a weather prediction twelve hours ahead. Now we're being asked to believe a prediction that goes out 100 years into the future? And make financial investments based on that prediction? Has everybody lost their minds?

  Michael Crichton

  Believe, Years, Weather

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• Making predictions is like throwing a dartboard at the fixture list

  Mike Parry

  Lists, Fixture, Throwing

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• Some of the most wonderful aspects and consequences of evolution have been discovered only recently. This is in stark contrast to creationism, which offers a static view of the world, one that cannot be challenged or tested with reason. And because it cannot make predictions, it cannot lead to new discoveries, new medicines, or new ways to feed all of us.

  Bill Nye

  Discovery, Views, Medicine

  Bill Nye (2014). “Undeniable: Evolution and the Science of Creation”, p.5, St. Martin's Press

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