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• A planet is the cradle of mind, but one cannot live in a cradle forever.

  Konstantin Tsiolkovsky

  Future, Forever, Mind

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• Your imagination is the single most important asset you possess. Your imagination is your power to create mental pictures of things that don't exist yet and that you want to bring into being. Your imagination is what you use to shape your future. And so in your own way, you are a prophet. You generate countless predictions every day. Your imagination is the source,tirelessly churning out mental pictures of what you'll be doing in the future.

  Rob Brezsny

  Imagination, Important, Use

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• Sci-fi is often a metaphor. I think it's more the themes and questions that science fiction raises rather than the exact predictions that should guide us.

  Peter Singer

  Thinking, Fiction, Metaphor

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• We don't even know what species are out there, for the most part, particularly when you get down to the microbes and very small invertebrates. They make up the mass of the organisms around us, including the soil we depend on, the soil of cornfields as well as hardwood forests. We haven't taken ecology to the point where we can even make a crude prediction of what's going to happen when we've reduced the living world down to a certain level.

  E. O. Wilson

  Taken, Levels, Soil

  Source: blog.cleveland.com

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• Dreams, and predictions of astrology....ought to serve but for winter talk by the fireside.

  Francis Bacon

  Dream, Winter, Astrology

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• I suppose we shall soon travel by air-vessels; make air instead of sea voyages; and at length find our way to the moon, in spite of the want of atmosphere.

  Lord Byron

  Moon, Air, Sea

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• Any believable prediction will be wrong. Any correct prediction will be unbelievable.

  Kevin Kelly

  Unbelievable, Believable

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• Nature has color-coded groups of individuals so that statistically reliable predictions of their adaptability to intellectual rewarding and effective lives can easily be made and profitably used by the pragmatic man-in-the street.

  William Shockley

  Men, Color, Intellectual

  "Shockley's Race View called 'Senile, Fascist'". St. Petersburg Times, September 8, 1971.

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• And as for Mixed Mathematics, I may only make this prediction, that there cannot fail to be more kinds of them, as nature grows further disclosed.

  Francis Bacon

  Failure, Math, May

  Francis Bacon (1765). “The works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England, in five volumes”, p.125

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• Without wishing to damp the ardor of curiosity or influence the freedom of inquiry, I will hazard a prediction that, after the most industrious and impartial researchers, the longest liver of you all will find no principles, institutions or systems of education more fit in general to be transmitted to your posterity than those you have received from your ancestors.

  John Adams

  Voting, Curiosity, Wish

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• We must prove our predictions about the future with action.

  George Jackson

  Action, Prove

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• The man of true genius never lives before his time, he never undertakes impossibilities, and always embarks on his enterprise at the suitable place and period. Though he may catch a glimpse of the coming light as it gilds the mountain top long before it reaches the eyes of his contemporaries, and he may hazard a prediction as to the future, he acts with the present.

  Joseph Henry

  Life, Future, Eye

  Joseph Henry (1886). “Scientific Writings”

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• Astrological prayers seem to me to be built on as good reason as the predictions.

  Benjamin Stillingfleet

  Prayer, Astrology, Reason

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• Access to supercomputers. The science is well ahead of our ability to implement it. It's quite clear that if we could run our models at a higher resolution we could do a much better job-tomorrow-in terms of our seasonal and decadal predictions. It's so frustrating. We keep saying we need four times the computing power. We're talking just 10 or 20 million a year-dollars or pounds-which is tiny compared to the damage done by disasters. Yet it's a difficult argument to win.

  Julia Slingo

  Running, Jobs, Winning

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• No guarantees come with children's liberation. But neither the promise of great benefits to all nor the prediction of great difficulties ahead can serve as the reason for granting or denying rights to children. Rights will be granted because without them children are incapacitated, oppressed, and abused.

  Richard Farson

  Children, Rights, Promise

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• Einstein does not remain attached to the classical principles, and when presented with a problem in physics he quickly envisages all of its possibilities. This leads immediately in his mind to the prediction of new phenomena which may one day be verified by experiment.

  Henri Poincare

  Mind, One Day, Principles

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• Trying to predict the future is a discouraging and hazardous occupation. If by some miracle a prophet could describe the future exactly as it was going to take place, his predictions would sound so absurd that people everyone would laugh him to scorn. The only thing we can be sure of about the future is that it will be absolutely fantastic. So, if what I say now seems to you to be very reasonable, then I will have failed completely. Only if what I tell you appears absolutely unbelievable have we any chance of visualizing the future as it really will happen.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Laughing, People, Miracle

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• My track record is pretty good on predictions.

  Ann Coulter

  Track, Records, Track Record

  Ann Coulter (2004). “How to Talk to a Liberal (If You Must): The World According to Ann Coulter”, p.199, Crown Forum

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• A model is a good model if first it interprets a wide range of observations in terms of a simple and elegant model, and second if the model makes definite predictions that can be tested, and possibly falsified, by observation.

  Stephen Hawking

  Simple, Firsts, Range

  "Audio: Stephen Hawking’s Best Quotes" by Adam Mann, www.wired.com. January 8, 2012.

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• I love fashion because it's plugged into the zeitgeist, so it's always changing. Thirty years ago, I could never have predicted I'd be where I am today, so I know I don't know what's going to happen in the next five years or the next 20 years. I have my predictions—I'm sure technology will continue to have an impact on fashion, particularly the way people shop. I think quality will be increasingly important—we're moving away from a time of fast fashion. But really, the only constant in fashion is that you must keep moving forward, otherwise you'll be left behind.

  Michael Kors

  Fashion, Moving, Technology

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• The Brahmins say that in their books there are many predictions of times in which it will rain. But press those books as strongly as you can, you can not get out of them a drop of water. So you can not get out of all the books that contain the best precepts the smallest good deed.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Rain, Book, Reading

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• Inventions reached their limit long ago, and I see no hope for further development.

  Frontinus

  Long Ago, Follow Your Dreams, Development

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• Global warming isn't a prediction. It is happening.

  James Hansen

  Global Warming, Climate Change, Happenings

  "Game Over for the Climate". www.nytimes.com. May 9, 2012.

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• I live up in the hills, and I don't have any cable, and I have really slow satellite, so that does it - because being on the Internet is okay, but it takes a long time. I have a prediction that at some point, there will be a backlash. Like at the end of the '60s, there was that back-to-the-land movement, and I'm guessing that people will start consciously saying, "I'm not taking the phone with me," or "I'm only checking email x number of times a day," or "I'm not ever gonna self-Google," for example.

  George Saunders

  Numbers, Phones, Self

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• We spend a lot of time and effort trying to figure out who's going to be a good NFL quarterback, and we do a very bad job of it. We don't really know. And we also spend a lot of time trying to figure out who will be a good teacher, and we're really bad at that too. We don't know if someone is going to be a good teacher when they start teaching. So what should we do in those situations in which predictions are useless?

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Teacher, Jobs, Teaching

  Goodreads interview, www.goodreads.com. December, 2008.

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