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• A very friendly boom, like a pair of gleeful handclaps.

  James Lighthill

  Friendly, Pairs, Aviation

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• To squander a fortune in public money, billions and billions, stubbornly carrying on with a Concorde we can only sell to ourselves.

  Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber

  Carrying On, Aviation, Fortune

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• One day the stars will be as familiar to each man as the landmarks, the curves, and the hills on the road that leads to his door, and one day that will be an airborne life.

  Beryl Markham

  Stars, Future, Men

  Beryl Markham (1994). “The Illustrated West with the Night”, Stewart, Tabori, & Chang

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• I know that some knowledgeable people fear that although we might be willing to spend a couple of billion dollars in 1958, because we still remember the humiliation of Sputnik last October, next year we will be so preoccupied by color television, or new-style cars, or the beginning of another national election, that we will be unwilling to pay another year's installment on our space conquest bill. For that to happen well, I'd just as soon we didn't start.

  Hugh Latimer Dryden

  Couple, Future, Color

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• Nothing will stop us. The road to the stars is steep and dangerous. But we're not afraid . . . Space flights can't be stopped. This isn't the work of one man or even a group of men. It is a historical process which mankind is carrying out in accordance with the natural laws of human development.

  Yuri Gagarin

  Stars, Future, Men

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• The creative conquest of space will serve as a wonderful substitute for war.

  James Smith McDonnell

  War, Future, Creativity

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• Supersonic airplanes have carried men at more than 2,000 miles per hour and there are reasons to believe that this speed will be doubled by 1960 or so.

  Igor Sikorsky

  Believe, Airplane, Men

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• Mass travel by air may prove to be more significant to world destiny than the atom bomb.

  Juan Trippe

  Destiny, Air, Atoms

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• Although humans today remain more capable than machines for many tasks, by 2030 machine capabilities will have increased to the point that humans will have become the weakest component in a wide array of systems and processes. Humans and machines will need to become far more closely coupled, through improved human-machine interfaces and by direct augmentation of human performance

  Werner J. A. Dahm

  Machines, Today, Tasks

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• Nothing can prevent us from another day and night, and the myth of perpetual flight.

  Bertrand Piccard

  Night, Another Day, Aviation

  "Solar-powered plane lands safely after 26-hour flight". www.bbc.com. July 8, 2010.

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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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• The book known by the name of the Apocalypse, has seemed to be until now unintelligible, merely because people persisted to see in it a real prediction of the future, which every one has explained after his own fashion, and in which they have always found what they wanted, namely anything but that, what the book contained.

  Charles-Francois Dupuis

  Fashion, Real, Book

  Charles François Dupuis (2016). “The Origin of all Religious Worship”, p.372, Lulu.com

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• It is the ability to make predictions about the future that is the crux of intelligence.

  Jeff Hawkins

  Crux, Ability

  Jeff Hawkins, Sandra Blakeslee (2007). “On Intelligence”, p.6, Macmillan

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• If the facts are contrary to any predictions, then the hypothesis is wrong no matter how appealing.

  David Douglass

  Matter, Facts, Hypothesis

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• Darwin's prediction of rampant, albeit gradual, change affecting all lineages through time is refuted. The record is there, and the record speaks for tremendous anatomical conservatism. Change in the manner Darwin expected is just not found in the fossil record.

  Niles Eldredge

  Fossils, Lineage, Records

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• The human brain is like a memory system that records every thing that happens to us and makes intelligent predictions based on those experiences.

  Daniel Tammet

  Memories, Intelligent, Brain

  Daniel Tammet (2009). “Embracing the Wide Sky: A Tour Across the Horizons of the Mind”, p.32, Simon and Schuster

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• Science is one of a handful of things that defines us as a very special species. It is amazing how far we have been able to get and how accurate our predictions are. I think understanding how the universe was born is very important. It really gives us a perspective on many things.

  Yuri Milner

  Thinking, Giving, Perspective

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• We will be producing supersonic planes which will go far, far faster than Concordes. New York to Tokyo could be less than an hour. You could be traveling at 19,000 miles an hour orbitally.

  Richard Branson

  New York, Space, Tokyo

  "Richard Branson Wants To Build A Plane That Can Go From New York To Tokyo In 'Less Than An Hour'" by Paul Szoldra, www.businessinsider.com. May 6, 2014.

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• The first company to produce a certified two seat electric aircraft with a 1.5 hour range will dominate the aviation training market.

  Erik Lindbergh

  Two, Training, Firsts

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• 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.

  Bill Nye

  Apples, Taste, Next

  Source: blogs.kcrw.com

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• We will eventually build space science labs and hotels, prodding the capability for missions beyond the orbit of the Earth. Our space-hotel guests will be able to take breath-taking excursions, flying a couple of hundred feet above the Moon's surface in small two-man spaceships. In time, we will launch missions to Mars and beyond.

  Richard Branson

  Couple, Future, Men

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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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