Predictions Quotes - Page 19

• Prediction is a low form of journalism.

  David Remnick

  Journalism, Form, Lows

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• With a Trump administration we don't know enough yet to make predictions, but if past behavior is any indication, I am not encouraged.

  Mariana Mazzucato

  Past, Administration, Behavior

  Source: www.salon.com

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• I'm not keen on making predictions.

  Andrew Flintoff

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• Our creationist detractors charge that evolution is an unproved and unprovable charade — a secular religion masquerading as science. They claim, above all, that evolution generates no predictions, never exposes itself to test, and therefore stands as dogma rather than disprovable science. This claim is nonsense.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Tests, Evolution, Dogma

  "Dinosaur in a haystack: reflections in natural history".

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• It is ... a sign of the times-though our brothers of physics and chemistry may smile to hear me say so-that biology is now a science in which theories can be devised: theories which lead to predictions and predictions which sometimes turn out to be correct. These facts confirm me in a belief I hold most passionately-that biology is the heir of all the sciences.

  Peter Medawar

  Brother, Time, Science

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• We need to get environmentalism out of the sphere of religion. We need to stop the mythic fantasies, and we need to stop the doomsday predictions. We need to start doing hard science instead.

  Michael Crichton

  Needs, Spheres, Fantasy

  Michael Crichton's Remarks to the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco, www.cs.cmu.edu. September 15, 2003.

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• Although I'm not prepared to move up my prediction of a computer passing the Turing test by 2029, the progress that has been achieved in systems like Watson should give anyone substantial confidence that the advent of Turing-level AI is close at hand. If one were to create a version of Watson that was optimized for the Turing test, it would probably come pretty close.

  Ray Kurzweil

  Moving, Hands, Giving

  Ray Kurzweil (2012). “How to Create a Mind: The Secret of Human Thought Revealed”, p.180, Penguin

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• Letters to the editors of English and American newspapers often contain expressions of horror about the new terms that creep into the language, and these expressions are usually accompanied by dire predictions about ruination of the mother tongue.

  Peter Farb

  Mother, Editors, Expression

  Peter Farb (2015). “Word Play: What Happens When People Talk”, p.331, Vintage

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• We made it. Despite the fear and predictions of doom. We made it. Even though there were days when we were tired and there were days when we forgot who we were. We made it. And we must thank the stars for this. And the birds for their beautiful songs. And the strangers who were careful to smile. We made it.

  Ron Atchison

  Inspirational, Beautiful, Song

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• [I predict] the electricity generated by water power is the only thing that is going to keep future generations from freezing. Now we use coal whenever we produce electric power by steam engine, but there will be a time when there'll be no more coal to use. That time is not in the very distant future. ... Oil is too insignificant in its available supply to come into much consideration.

  Charles Proteus Steinmetz

  Science, Electric Power, Oil

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• The contradictory remarks of politicians are forgotten; the more asinine predictions of pundits are buried with mercy.

  Norman Mailer

  Wisdom, Forgotten, Politician

  Norman Mailer (1970). “Cannibals and Christians”

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• One of the things that I think we have learned is that we should all be very careful about making predictions about the future.

  William J. Clinton

  Caring, Thinking, Should

  Clinton, William J. (2000). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 2000-2001”, p.2532, Best Books on

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• Each artist comes to the painting or sculpture because there he can be told that he, the individual, transcends all classes and flouts all predictions. In the work of art, he finds his uniqueness confirmed.

  Ben Shahn

  Art, Class, Sculpture

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• Soon shall thy arm, unconquer'd steam! afar
  Drag the slow barge, or drive the rapid car;
  Or on wide-waving wings expanded bear
  The flying chariot through the field of air.

  Erasmus Darwin

  Air, Wings, Car

  Erasmus Darwin (1807). “The Botanic Garden: A Poem, in Two Parts: Part I. Containing The Economy of Vegetation. Part II. The Loves of the Plants”, p.22

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• The Roman Empire controlled the world because it could build roads . . . the British Empire was dominant because it had ships. In the air age we were powerful because we had airplaines. Now the Communists have established a foothold in outer space.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Powerful, Future, Space

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• My colleagues in elementary particle theory in many lands [and I] are driven by the usual insatiable curiosity of the scientist, and our work is a delightful game. I am frequently astonished that it so often results in correct predictions of experimental results. How can it be that writing down a few simple and elegant formulae, like short poems governed by strict rules such as those of the sonnet or the waka, can predict universal regularities of Nature?

  Murray Gell-Mann

  Nature, Hard Work, Writing

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• Men who have worked together to reach the stars are not likely to descend together into the depths of war and desolation.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Stars, War, Future

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1967). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1966”, p.668, Best Books on

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• We are going to see a great number of articles in the future from so-called experts and public officials. They will warn about more violence, more kidnappings, and more terrorists. Mass media, the armed forces, and intelligence agencies will saturate our lives with fascist scare tactics and 'predictions' that have already been planned to come true.

  Mae Brussell

  Agency, Media, Scare Tactics

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• Let me state what the official IPCC prediction is: Sea levels could go up as much as three-quarters of a meter in this century, but there is a reasonable probability it could be much higher than that.

  Steven Chu

  Sea, Three, Levels

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• Mobile use is growing faster than all of Google's internal predictions.

  Eric Schmidt

  Phones, Google, Use

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• Agency by agency, we frequently have lost a bit of ground, at least to inflation-but had it not been for the efforts we've made to educate people about the importance of science, technology and advanced education, those predictions very well might have come true.

  Charles M. Vest

  Education, Technology, Agency

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• The only thing that we know about financial predictions of start-ups is that 100 percent of them are wrong

  Brad Feld

  Fundraising, Financial, Percent

  Brad Feld, Jason Mendelson (2016). “Venture Deals: Be Smarter Than Your Lawyer and Venture Capitalist”, p.26, John Wiley & Sons

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• Left Behind takes what to some people may be unbelievable predictions from the Bible and shows how they might play out. It makes the events of biblical prophecy understandable and thus believable.

  Jerry B. Jenkins

  Biblical, Play, People

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• A hundred years ago, Auguste Compte, ... a great philosopher, said that humans will never be able to visit the stars, that we will never know what stars are made out of, that that's the one thing that science will never ever understand, because they're so far away. And then, just a few years later, scientists took starlight, ran it through a prism, looked at the rainbow coming from the starlight, and said: "Hydrogen!" Just a few years after this very rational, very reasonable, very scientific prediction was made, that we'll never know what stars are made of.

  Michio Kaku

  Stars, Science, Years

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• A time will come when men will stretch out their eyes. They should see planets like our Earth

  Christopher Wren

  Clever, Future, Eye

  "If the Universe is Teeming with Aliens-- where is Everybody? Fifty Solutions to the Fermi Paradox and the Problem of Extraterrestrial Life". Book by Stephen Webb, p. 150, quoting "Inaugural Lecture as Professor of Astronomy, Gresham College", 2002.

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