I am frequently astonished that it so often results in correct predictions of experimental results.
It's difficult to make predictions in the Premier League, as unpredictable things can happen, and I know that well: I won the title in a crazy way and lost one unexpectedly.
I'd be doing Oscar predictions months ahead of time, and not only for the Oscars, for the Grammys. This is just what excited me as a kid.
Al Gore is producing enough hot air to make his doomsday predictions about global warming a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Predictions of a disappearing political center are a warning of a bleak future that we can avoid only by adhering to our nation's founding principles.
We're mortal, yet without a known expiration date. It's an inevitable fate worthy of acceptance, but not deserving of predictions.
The human brain is like a memory system that records every thing that happens to us and makes intelligent predictions based on those experiences.
Utopianism substitutes glorious predictions and unachievable promises for knowledge, science, and reason, while laying claim to them all.
I don't like to give predictions but I am the type of fighter who tries to stop his man every time, and that's why I'm such a fan favourite. People know I do the business.
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.
One of the things that I think we have learned is that we should all be very careful about making predictions about the future.
We want to get 80%-85% of predictions right, not 100%. Or else we calibrated our estimates in the wrong way.
Whenever people have used religious documents to make accurate predictions about our base knowledge of the physical world, they have been famously wrong.
When you have a perfect free market, it's difficult to predict the future. But when you have a market that is disturbed by government manipulations and money-printing, it's impossible to make any predictions.
Having established that good ideas do indeed come in from the cold, start on the fringes and become mainstream, can we make any predictions about what the next move will be?
To the extent that you can find ways where you're making predictions, there's no substitute for testing yourself on real-world situations that you don't know the answer to in advance.
Social Security has been effective for 70 years; prior predictions of its demise have been totally overstated.
The more unpredictable the world is the more we rely on predictions.
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.
It is our common experience as human beings that the results of social forces seem to admit only of 'probabilistic' predictions.
We have three post-PC devices: the iPod, the iPhone, and the iPad, the revolutionary device that defined a whole new categoryit's outstripping the wildest of predictions.
It's very difficult to make predictions about the Iranian politics, but given the fact that Ahmadinejad was elected with a very clear purpose - to improve the economy - and he's failed.
With a Trump administration we don't know enough yet to make predictions, but if past behavior is any indication, I am not encouraged.
If the search is for examples that contradict the predictions of standard economic models, a good rule of thumb is to start in France.
I figure lots of predictions is best. People will forget the ones I get wrong and marvel over the rest.
If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
...there is no substantive basis for predictions of sizeable global warming due to observed increases in minor greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide, methane and chlorofluorocarbons.
The thing that people associate with expertise, authoritativeness, kind of with a capital 'A,' don't correlate very well with who's actually good at making predictions.
I was really interested to see whether we could make predictions or forecasts by listening in on what people were saying on social media.
In 1999, I said that in about a decade we would see technologies such as self-driving cars and mobile phones that could answer your questions, and people criticized these predictions as unrealistic.
Although our eyes can not penetrate the darkness of the future, scientific geopolitical analysis enables us to make certain predictions.
Business success is less a function of grandiose predictions than it is a result of being able to respond rapidly to real changes as they occur.
Error held as truth has much the effect of truth. In politics and religion this fact upsets many confident predictions.
If my fans think I can do everything I say I can do, then they're crazier than I am. After one of his fight predictions turned out to be wrong.
Four predictions of the Big Bang Theory have now been verified - surely enough to quench even the most biased critics.
I never make predictions and I never will.
I am living against all predictions. The doctors say I am a sort of witch.
I'm not trying to frighten you, but only a fool makes predictions based on ignorance; I am not that sort of fool.
When I look into the Ericsson's mobility report that has predictions till 2018, the majority of people having mobile broadband by 2018 will be on 3G.
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.
The thing about a theory in science is it allows you make predictions. Evolutionary theory allows us to predict what apples will taste good next harvest.
I won this poll thing in England about predictions, and it was all these journalists and reporters trying to say that I was going to be big in '06. My name was at the top of their list. I was like, are you sure you've got the right person?
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.
They're not predicting global warming based on what's happened in the past; they're basing it on what their computer predictions say, and nothing more.
The only thing that we know about financial predictions of start-ups is that 100 percent of them are wrong
Berkshireis in the business of making easy predictions If a deal looks too hard, the partners simply shelve it.
What's the use of having developed a science well enough to make predictions if, in the end, all we're willing to do is stand around and wait for them to come true?
Quantum mechanics broke the mold of the previous framework, classical mechanics, by establishing that the predictions of science are necessarily probabilistic.
While I remain troubled by the Corps' inability to fully justify the Model they used for their commercial traffic predictions, America clearly has an aging lock and dam infrastructure on the Mississippi.
The future is itself a story, and predictions are stories we tell to amaze ourselves, to give hope to the desperate, to jolt the complacent.
Health care - the ability of neural networks to ingest lots of data and make predictions is very well suited to this area, and potentially will have a huge societal impact.
Each artist comes to the painting or sculpture because there he can be told that he, the individual, transcends all classes and flouts all predictions. In the work of art, he finds his uniqueness confirmed.
I've been around since I was 19, I won the Oscar when I was 21, I've had a couple of TV series. I've continued to work despite the predictions of some naysayers.
The real reason why general relativity is widely accepted is because it made predictions that were borne out by experimental observations.
Except for some effects that I attribute mostly to age, my intuitive thinking is just as prone to overconfidence, extreme predictions, and the planning fallacy as it was before I made a study of these issues.
I take no pleasure in the fact that the scientific predictions I've relayed to popular audiences turn out to be true.
If I am going to trash others for their dumb predictions, I must at least hold myself to the same sort of accountability.
I am a confident person. I can make predictions or whatever, that is just my confidence level. If I got out there and do that, fine. If not, ain't no tears coming out of my eyes.
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.
I think people are going to return to sanity when they see how ridiculous many of these charges are, and how the predictions are not borne out.
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