Best Predictions Quotes

The best way to predict your future is to create it.

Till facts are grouped & called there can be no prediction. The only advantage of discovering laws is to foretell what will happen & to see bearing of scattered facts.

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.

There is not the slightest indication that nuclear energy will ever be obtainable. It would mean that the atom would have to be shattered at will.

I have discovered that a screw-shaped device such as this, if it is well made from starched linen, will rise in the air if turned quickly.

While theoretically and technically television may be feasible, commercially and financially it is an impossibility.

I never try to make any far-reaching predictions, so much can happen that it simply only makes you look stupid a few years later.

I never make a prediction that can be proved wrong within 24 hours.

Science is progressing at such a rapid rate that when you make a prediction and think you are ahead of your time by 100 years you may be ahead of your time by 10 at most.

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

Predictions are uttered by prophets (free of charge); by clairvoyants (who usually charge a fee, and are therefore more honored in their day than prophets); and by futurologists (salaried). Prediction is the business of prophets, clairvoyants, and futurologists. It is not the business of novelists. A novelist’s business is lying.

The helicopter has never achieved much success and . . .may be classes with the ornithopter as obsolete.

With high hope for the future, no prediction is ventured.

There is an excellent way to make predictions without the slightest risk of error: predict the past.

Weather abroad
and weather in the heart alike come on
Regardless of prediction.

I believe the new machine of the Wrights to be the most promising attempt at flight that has yet been made.

There have been predictions that the world will come to an end on 21.12.12. But I look around me and I see so much scope for hope.

What man-made machine will ever achieve the complete perfection of even the goose’s wing?

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.

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

…paranormal phenomena such as apports, prediction, telepathy, dowsing and the like can be explained by an extended physics as potentially real effects.

The aeroplane will never fly.

The more unpredictable the world is the more we rely on predictions.

In less than twenty-five years . . . the motor-car will be obsolete, because the aeroplane will run along the ground as well as fly over it.

I never make predictions and I never will.

Politics is not predictions and politics is not observations. Politics is what we do. Politics is what we do, politics is what we create, by what we work for, by what we hope for and what we dare to imagine.

There is always something to worry about. Avoid weekend thinking and ignoring the latest dire predictions of the newscasters. Sell a stock because the company’s fundamentals deteriorate, not because the sky is falling.

[Airmail was] an impractical sort of fad, and had no place in the serious job of postal transportation.

When we hear a prediction of some disaster we need to throw the entire weight of our positive thought in the opposite direction!

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.

I don’t think a reporter should give advice or make predictions.

That’s not a prediction, that’s a spoiler.

Whatever happens, happens. I can’t give you a prediction because Jim (Irsay) and I will sit down at some point and he’ll get a feel for where I am and I’ll get a sense of what direction he wants to go. Right now, I have no idea.

At sea let the British their neighbours defy —
The French shall have frigates to traverse the sky.

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