Prediction Quotes - page 4

If our powers of prediction, and so our knowledge of the future, become much greater, then, even if they are never complete, this may radically alter our view of what constitutes a person, an act, a choice; and eo ipso our language and our picture of the world. (Isaiah Berlin)
There is no justifiable prediction about how the hypothesis will hold up in the future; its degree of corroboration simply is a historical statement describing how severely the hypothesis has been tested in the past. View quote
Robert Nozick
Evolution endowed us with intuition only for those aspects of physics that had survival value for our distant ancestors, such as the parabolic orbits of flying rocks (explaining our penchant for baseball). A cavewoman thinking too hard about what matter is ultimately made of might fail to notice the tiger sneaking up behind and get cleaned right out of the gene pool. Darwin's theory thus makes the testable prediction that whenever we use technology to glimpse reality beyond the human scale, our evolved intuition should break down. View quote
Max Tegmark
During the late contest for the Union, the air was full of 'nevers', every one of which was contradicted and put to shame by the result, and I doubt not that most of those we now hear in our troubled air will meet the same fate. It is probably well for us that some of our gloomy prophets are limited in their powers to prediction. View quote
Frederick Douglass
Prediction is certainly a valuable goal in science, but not the only one. Explanation is also important, and there are plenty of sciences that do a lot of explaining and not much predicting. View quote
Eric Maskin
I'll make a prediction with my eyes open: that a woman can and will be elected if she is qualified and gets enough votes. View quote
Gracie Allen
Any believable prediction will be wrong. Any correct prediction will be unbelievable. View quote
Kevin Kelly (editor)
Models are used essentially for evaluation and prediction purposes as well as for the analysis and study of the different parts of the system so that the systems engineer or designer may arrive at sound engineering decisions regarding the system design. View quote
Harold Chestnut
[W]e live... in the pockets of reducibility. ...I should have realized [that] very many years ago, but didn't... [I]t could very well be that everything about the world is computationally irreducible and completely unpredictable, but... in our experience of the world there is at least some amount of prediction we can make. ...[T]hat's because we have ...chosen a slice of ...how to think about the universe, in which we can... sample a certain amount of computational reducibility, and that's... where we exist. ...It may not be the whole story about how the universe is, but it is that part of the universe that we care about and ...operate in. ...In science, that's been ...a very special case ...science has chosen to talk a lot about places where there is this computational reducibility... The motion of the planets can be ...predicted. The... weather is much harder to predict. ...[S]cience has tended to concentrate itself on places where its methods have allowed successful prediction. View quote
Stephen Wolfram
I've actually made a prediction that within 30 years a majority of new cars made in the United States will be electric. And I don't mean hybrid, I mean fully electric. View quote
Elon Musk
Day by day and almost minute by minute the past was brought up to date. In this way every prediction made by the Party could be shown by documentary evidence to have been correct; nor was any item of news, or any expression of opinion, which conflicted with the needs of the moment, ever allowed to remain on record. All history was a palimpsest, scraped clean and reinscribed exactly as often as was necessary. (George Orwell)
I am going to make a prediction. The major opponents of our legislation to cancel $1.6 trillion in student debt-mark my words-will be the exact same people who said we had to bail out Wall Street to the tune of billions upon billions of dollars. View quote
Bernie Sanders
The object of our study, then, is prediction, the prediction of the incidence of the public force through the instrumentality of the courts. View quote
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
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. View quote
Francis Bacon
An economic system is not a linear system, and... this fact stands in the way of the determination of the parameters of the system by methods that presume linearity, and... it introduces great difficulties in the extrapolation from past behaviour for purposes of prediction. View quote
Arnold Tustin
I try not to get involved in the business of prediction. It's a quick way to look like an idiot. View quote
Warren Ellis
To say that prediction is the purpose of a scientific theory is to confuse means with ends. It is like saying that the purpose of a spaceship is to burn fuel. View quote
David Deutsch
Each morning the day lies like a fresh shirt on our bed this incomparably fine, incomparably tightly woven tissue of pure prediction fits us perfectly. The happiness of the next twenty-four hours depends on our ability, on waking, to pick it up. View quote
Walter Benjamin
The failure of any prediction can always be blamed on quirky political decisions or unforeseen historical events. View quote
Martin Gardner
Two thousand six hundred years ago, Gautama Buddha made a prediction that at this time would come another great teacher who would inspire humanity to create a new and brilliant golden civilization based on righteousness and truth. His name would be Maitreya, a Buddha like Himself. View quote
Benjamin Creme
I think we can become excellent predictors. It's just that we're careful not to depend upon prediction anymore than we have to. (Ward Cunningham)
The existence of dark matter particles can never be disproven by direct experiment because ever lighter particles and/or ever smaller cross sections just below the current detection threshold may be postulated for every non-detection. There exists no falsifiable prediction concerning the DM particles. View quote
Pavel Kroupa
With high hope for the future, no prediction is ventured. View quote
Abraham Lincoln
Prediction is not just one of the things your brain does. It is the primary function of the neo-cortex, and the foundation of intelligence. View quote
Jeff Hawkins
Prediction by analogy -creativity - is so pervasive we normally don't notice it. View quote
Jeff Hawkins