Top Prediction Quotes

I am well convinced that Aerial Navigation will form a most prominent feature in the progress of civilization. (1804)

In a world with amazing amounts of statistics and demographics available, If you don't utilize foresight, statistics, demographics, projections and predictions the competition will.

Prediction Definition

(n.) The act of foretelling; also, that which is foretold; prophecy.

Prediction is very difficult, especially if it's about the future.

If America and the Western world continue in their state of unconscious hopelessness, lack of faith and of fortitude, it is predictable that they will not be able to resist the temptation of the big b...

I never assume anything. I anticipate the possibilities and allow my imagination to create the future.

I'm convinced that before the year 2000 is over, the first child will have been born on the moon.

...the ratings agencies' problem was in being unable or uninterested in appreciating the distinction between risk and uncertainty.

I try to be rational (or at least my imaginary facsimile of what rationality is supposed to be). I try to look at the available data objectively (fully aware that this is impossible). I try to extrapo...

The fate of man does not chase him as much as he chases his fate.

I wondered if, by the time we'd been together as long as Phèdre and Joscelin, I'd be able to predict her reactions. I wasn't sure I would.I wasn't sure I wanted to, either.

The future is like a corridor into which we can see only by the light coming from behind.

It takes a huge investment in introspection to learn that the thirty or more hours spent studying the news last month neither had any predictive ability during your activities of that month nor did it...

I remember when we found the first population of living Cerion agassizi in central Eleuthera. Our hypothesis of Cerion's general pattern required that two predictions be affirmed (or else we were in t...

The gray-haired growser, who proved to be a lawyer, had made it clear how much he loathed the people who were, in his view, attempting to undermine the American Constitution by imposing a state religi...

I was not predicting the future, I was trying to prevent it.