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• I am saying that all predictions concerning climate are highly uncertain.

  Freeman Dyson

  Climate, Uncertain

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• On Sunday, the president flies to the Azores islands to attend a summit with British Prime Minister Tony Blair and Spanish Prime Minister Jose Aznar, and here's my prediction: Bush gets voted off.

  Craig Kilborn

  Sunday, Islands, President

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• In 1999, I said that in about a decade we would see technologies such as self-driving cars and mobile phones that could answer your questions, and people criticized these predictions as unrealistic.

  Ray Kurzweil

  Technology, Phones, Self

  "Ray Kurzweil, Google’s Director Of Engineering, Wants To Bring The Dead Back To Life", www.huffingtonpost.com. December 28, 2012.

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• I'm 43 years old and I'm the healthiest candidate for the Presidency of the United States. You've travelled with me enough to know that I'm not going to die in office.

  John F. Kennedy

  Years, Office, United States

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• When the number of factors coming into play in a phenomenological complex is too large scientific method in most cases fails. One need only think of the weather, in which case the prediction even for a few days ahead is impossible.

  Albert Einstein

  Thinking, Play, Weather

  Albert Einstein (2011). “Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words”, p.23, Open Road Media

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• The resemblance of the signs of the zodiac to the animals after which they are named... is as unimpressive as the predictions of astrologers.

  Richard Dawkins

  Animal, Zodiac, Resemblance

  Richard Dawkins (2015). “The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe without Design”, p.53, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Prediction is difficult- particularly when it involves the future.

  Mark Twain

  Vision, Difficult

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• Never make bad predictions, especially about the futture.

  Casey Stengel

  Future

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• Life, forever dying to be born afresh, forever young and eager, will presently stand upon this Earth as upon a footstool, and stretch out its realm amidst the stars.

  H. G. Wells

  Stars, Space, Forever

  "The Outline of History". Book by H. G. Wells, Ch. 41, 1920.

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• Prediction is difficult, especially the future.

  Niels Bohr

  Science, Difficult

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• It makes no sense to seek a single best way to represent knowledge-because each particular form of expression also brings its particular limitations. For example, logic-based systems are very precise, but they make it hard to do reasoning with analogies. Similarly, statistical systems are useful for making predictions, but do not serve well to represent the reasons why those predictions are sometimes correct.

  Marvin Minsky

  Knowledge, Expression, Example

  "The Emotion Machine: Commonsense Thinking, Artificial Intelligence, and the Future of the Human Mind". Book by Marvin Minsky, 2006.

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• You seem to be drowning twice," said Hermione. "Oh, am I?" said Ron peering down at his predictions. "I'd better change one of them to getting trampled by a rampaging Hippogriff.

  J. K. Rowling

  Hermione, Drowning, Said

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• Utopianism substitutes glorious predictions and unachievable promises for knowledge, science, and reason, while laying claim to them all.

  Mark Levin

  Promise, Reason, Claims

  Mark R. Levin (2012). “Ameritopia: The Unmaking of America”, p.5, Simon and Schuster

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• I couldn't tell fact from fiction, Or if the dream was true My only sure prediction In this world was you. I'd touch your features inchly. Beard love and dared the cost, The sented spiel reeled me unreal And I found my senses lost.

  Maya Angelou

  Life, Dream, Cost

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• Ender nodded. It was a lie, of course, that it wouldn’t hurt a bit. But since adults always said it when it was going to hurt, he could count on that statement as an accurate prediction of the future. Sometimes lies were more dependable than the truth.

  Orson Scott Card

  Hurt, Lying, Adults

  Orson Scott Card (2010). “Ender's Game”, p.18, Macmillan

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• Was it - was she making a real prediction?' Dumbledore looked mildly impressed. 'Do you know, Harry, I think she might have been,' he said thoughtfully. 'Who'd have thought it? That brings her total of real predictions up to two. I should offer her a pay raise.

  J. K. Rowling

  Real, Thinking, Two

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• I’ve been doing this a long time, and I’ve come to learn that predictions don’t mean much. Too much lies outside the realm of medical knowledge. A lot of what happens next comes down to you and your specific genetics, your attitude. No, there’s nothing we can do to stop the inevitable, but that’s not the point. The point is that you should try to make the most of the time you have left.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Attitude, Lying, Mean

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• Gu was a worrier, a neurotic curmudgeon. If he had a headache, it was a brain tumor; if it looked like rain, this year's harvest was ruined. This was his way of controlling the situation, his lifelong strategy for always coming out ahead. Now, when reality looked more dire than any of his fatalisitic predictions, he had no choice but to turn tail and charge in the opposite direction.

  Max Brooks

  Rain, Reality, Years

  Max Brooks (2006). “World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War”, p.11, Broadway Books

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• Making predictions is tough. Especially for the future.

  Yogi Berra

  Tough

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• They believed that prediction was just a function of keeping track of things. If you knew enough, you could predict anything. That's been cherished scientific belief since Newton.' And?' Chaos theory throws it right out the window.

  Michael Crichton

  Track, Belief, Chaos

  Michael Crichton (1997). “Michael Crichton's Jurassic World”, Alfred a Knopf Incorporated

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• Any astronomer can predict with absolute accuracy just where every star in the universe will be at 11.30 tonight. He can make no such prediction about his teenage daughter.

  James Truslow Adams

  Mother Daughter, Stars, Teenage

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• Any prediction worth its weigh would consider the spiritual, material, and unintended consequences of introducing a new technology to the world. It would proceed from the kind of understanding Chellis articulated: Life is Whole.

  Stephanie Mills

  Spiritual, Technology, Understanding

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• I think political science is bad at prediction. We don't gaze into a crystal ball. I do not believe that we predict things.

  Ian Bremmer

  Believe, Thinking, Political

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• Predictions are preposterous. What usually happens is that people tell you that what they'd like to see happen instead of what they really think will happen. There are so many variations and possibilities that there's no way to ever really know for certain.

  Jackie Mason

  Thinking, People, Variation

  Source: spectator.org

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• The past is democratic, because it is a people. The future is despotic, because it is a caprice. Every man is alone in his prediction, just as each man is alone in a dream.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Dream, Men, Past

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