A Quote by Fred Singer

Prediction is a very difficult business, particularly about the future

Fred Singer

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Fred Singer
American - Physicist
Born: September 27, 1924

Prediction is very hard, particularly when it's about the future.

Yogi Berra

Prediction is difficult- particularly when it involves the future.

Mark Twain

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

Niels Bohr

It is very difficult to make an accurate prediction, especially about the future.

Niels Bohr

Prediction is difficult, especially the future.

Niels Bohr

Nobody believes a weather prediction twelve hours ahead. Now we're being asked to believe a prediction that goes out 100 years into the future? And make financial investments based on that prediction? Has everybody lost their minds?

Michael Crichton

There is no example of someone reading their scripture and saying, 'I have a prediction about the world that no one knows yet, because this gave me insight. Let's go test that prediction,' and have the prediction be correct.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

One may say that predictions are dangerous particularly for the future. If the danger involved in a prediction is not incurred, no consequence follows and the uncertainty principle is not violated.

Edward Teller

Nobody wants a prediction that the future will be more or less like the present, even if that is, statistically speaking, an excellent prediction.

Nathan Myhrvold

Forecasts are difficult to make-particularly those about the future.

Samuel Goldwyn

You don't need to predict the future. Just choose a future -- a good future, a useful future -- and make the kind of prediction that will alter human emotions and reactions in such a way that the future you predicted will be brought about. Better to make a good future than predict a bad one.

Isaac Asimov

I shall go further and say that even if an examination of the past could lead to any valid prediction concerning man's future, that prediction would be the contrary of reassuring.

Julien Benda

Science fiction writers aren't in the prediction business; they're in the speculation business, using 'hasn't happened' or 'hasn't happened yet' to create entertaining scenarios that may or may not anticipate future realities.

James Gunn

The weird thing about this business - and I'm sure this operates in many other things, but it's very present and acute in this business - is that a lot of people don't realize that they have power. Particularly actors.