Top 205 Prediction Quotes & Sayings

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

Global warming isn't a prediction. It is happening.

How the media covers [Donald] Trump-Hillary [Clinton]? Who knows yet how it's gonna manifest itself, but I guarantee you a lot of people are thinking - and I made the prediction. Well, it's not a prediction, but I said, folks, it's entirely possible that the media will continue to be sort of hands off on [Donald] Trump.

You can't make money with a consensus accurate prediction.

What do you call an economist with a prediction? Wrong.

Experimental confirmation of a prediction is merely a measurement. An experiment disproving a prediction is a discovery.

Never believe a prediction that does not empower you.

Any believable prediction will be wrong. Any correct prediction will be unbelievable.

A nice blend of prediction and surprise seem to be at the heart of the best art.

My faith in the economic potential of the low carbon economy is not an untested prediction.

The one prediction that never comes true is, 'You'll thank me for telling you this.

All the scientist creates in a fact is the language in which he enunciates it. If he predicts a fact, he will employ this language, and for all those who can speak and understand it, his prediction is free from ambiguity. Moreover, this prediction once made, it evidently does not depend upon him whether it is fulfilled or not.

Prediction, not narration, is the real test of our understanding of the world.

If I would need to make a prediction I still believe Kaplan's scenario is very plausible.

Perhaps the safest prediction we can make about the future is that it will surprise us.

Prediction is difficult, especially the future.

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

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

So you see, in the end, it is nearly certain that the power of prediction must triumph over the arrogance of elegance.

Management is prediction.

A rational prediction has an explanation based on theory.

The prediction I can make with the highest confidence is that the most amazing discoveries will be the ones we are not today wise enough to foresee.

Whenever people are confronted by a prediction for the future that they simply cannot or will not believe, they always say, 'It will never happen in my lifetime.' If the prediction is something they deplore and fear, they say it with calculated bravado, often adding a smug, snorty hhrrummph.

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.

Only human beings can look directly at something, have all the information they need to make an accurate prediction, perhaps even momentarily make the accurate prediction, and then say that it isn't so.

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?

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

The problem is not one of prediction. It is one of imagination.

Science is prediction, not explanation.

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.

Prediction is a low form of journalism.

Absolute prediction is completion . . . is death!

I'm going to make a prediction - it could go either way.

As for the depiction of the Catholic church, it's not meant to be a prediction.

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

I think political science is bad at prediction. We don't gaze into a crystal ball. I do not believe that we predict things.

Prediction by analogy -creativity - is so pervasive we normally don't notice it.

I think science fiction is very bad at prediction.

The paradigm of physics - with its interplay of data, theory and prediction - is the most powerful in science.

Prediction is a very difficult business, particularly about the future

We need to stop, and admit it: we have a prediction problem. We love to predict things—and we aren’t very good at it.

I have yet to see a successful prediction about the physical world that was inferred or extrapolated from the content of any religions document.

I try not to get involved in the business of prediction. It's a quick way to look like an idiot.

A prediction, in a field where prediction is not possible, is no more than a prejudice.

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

A prediction is a prediction because it's predictable.

As for the depiction of the Catholic church, it's not meant to be a prediction

The only relevant test of the validity of a hypothesis is comparison of prediction with experience.

The groundhog is like most other prophets; it delivers its prediction and then disappears.

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

I made a prediction when I was 11 that I would be world champion by the time I was 21, and I did it.

Economics is clearly a vital area of prediction for people in politics.

Hope is not a prediction of the future, it's a declaration of what is possible.

Prediction is difficult- particularly when it involves the future.

Wouldn't you like to contribute to an event that is part of Christ's own prediction, "I will build my church"?

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.

When the number of factors coming into play in a phenomenological complex is too large scientific method in most cases fails. One need only think of the weather, in which case the prediction even for a few days ahead is impossible. Nevertheless, no one doubts that we are confronted with a causal connection whose causal components are in the main known to us. Occurrences in this domain are beyond the reach of exact prediction because of the variety of factors in operation, not because of any lack of order in nature.

My biggest prediction for the future is that people are going to start looking after individual investors.

An experiment disproving a prediction is discovery.

No serious futurist deals in prediction. These are left for television oracles and newspaper astrologers.