Top 246 Predictions Quotes & Sayings

We're the tortoise that has outrun the hare because it chose the easy predictions.

Making predictions is tough. Especially for the future.

It makes no sense to seek a single best way to represent knowledge-because each particular form of expression also brings its particular limitations. For example, logic-based systems are very precise, but they make it hard to do reasoning with analogies. Similarly, statistical systems are useful for making predictions, but do not serve well to represent the reasons why those predictions are sometimes correct.

Im generally considered a conservative in my predictions for disease.

I can't make any predictions, I'm not an astrologer.

Most successful pundits are selected for being opinionated, because it's interesting, and the penalties for incorrect predictions are negligible. You can make predictions, and a year later people won't remember them.

You can predict all you want, but everybody knows what predictions get you.

It is ... a sign of the times-though our brothers of physics and chemistry may smile to hear me say so-that biology is now a science in which theories can be devised: theories which lead to predictions and predictions which sometimes turn out to be correct. These facts confirm me in a belief I hold most passionately-that biology is the heir of all the sciences.

Dreams, and predictions of astrology....ought to serve but for winter talk by the fireside.

Mobile use is growing faster than all of Google's internal predictions.

I've learned that the best political reporters never make predictions!

Both angels and demons are ignorant of the future, yet they make predictions. The angels do so when God reveals the future to them and commands them to prophesy, and what they prophesy comes to pass. Demons also make predictions, but these are only guesses based on what they see from afar.

I don't think we should run government based on economists' predictions.

When good fighters fight, they often make predictions. It's all part of the media hype beforehand.

Astrological prayers seem to me to be built on as good reason as the predictions.

My predictions are notably inaccurate.

We must prove our predictions about the future with action.

Everybody is making predictions who is going to win. I am no different than you.

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

I make predictions about what I'm going to do before a fight, that makes me nervous because I've gotten so good at it until people really look for me to do it.If I say the man's going to fall in round five, like your man Henry Cooper here, he was stopped in round five but it was on a cut - it wasn't because he was out. But usually 'm on the spot with my predictions and some people really gamble and bet money on the rounds I say.

Let there be a special place in Hell for pundits who make predictions.

We are both disturbed and fascinated by visions of bleak futures, predictions of what might come if we as a society aren't careful.

Big data is mostly about taking numbers and using those numbers to make predictions about the future. The bigger the data set you have, the more accurate the predictions about the future will be.

All buildings are predictions. All predictions are wrong.

Climate change is there as a reminder that we can get richer and safer societies that are also consuming more and more to the point where the stability of Earth's systems is being challenged at potentially catastrophic levels. I don't think we can stop that. Just the very same worries I have about prediction on the positive progressive side - I mean, predictions that say we'll be great, we'll be fine - also apply to predictions that are too catastrophic. I'm not sure we get those predictions right either.

I have been a biologist for a long time, and I hope I never stop getting shivers in my spine when I think about the beauty of how we come to know things in biology. Biologists make predictions, then they go out into the field or the lab to see if their predictions hold up. When hundreds of predictions of this sort are fulfilled, a theory reaches the point where it becomes certain, at least on a broad level. And that is where we are with evolution.

Never make bad predictions, especially about the futture.

I'm not keen on making predictions.

My predictions are notably inaccurate

In the current scenario of climate change, predictions of extreme weather events are becoming difficult.

Predictions are a mug's game.

My track record is pretty good on predictions.

I don't make predictions. I know what I can do, and I try not to think too far ahead.

It's tough to make predictions, especially about the future.

Never make predictions, especially about the future.

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

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

I am saying that all predictions concerning climate are highly uncertain.

I don't like to make predictions, because my life's been pretty unpredictable so far.

It is the ability to make predictions about the future that is the crux of intelligence.

The contradictory remarks of politicians are forgotten; the more asinine predictions of pundits are buried with mercy.

I take no pleasure in the fact that the scientific predictions I’ve relayed to popular audiences turn out to be true.

The only useful function of a statistician is to make predictions, and thus to provide a basis for action.

My stories are warnings; they're not predictions. If they were predictions, I wouldn't do them. Because then I'd be part of the doom-ridden psychology. But every time I name a problem, I try to give a solution.

It is not predictions but plans that make the future. If you want predictions, it is because you do not have the ability to make a plan and fulfill it.

Science is not, despite how it is often portrayed, about absolute truths. It is about developing an understanding of the world, making predictions, and then testing these predictions.

The Middle East is a region where predictions go to die.

I have learned not to do predictions. It's not helpful, psychologically. I don't sit and fret about things.

I've ceased making predictions on things because we'll see how they turn out.

Predictions are preposterous.

When you have two competing theories that make exactly the same predictions, the simpler one is the better.

Making predictions is like throwing a dartboard at the fixture list

It's always difficult to make predictions about the future.

I'm generally considered a conservative in my predictions for disease.

My approach works not by making valid predictions but by allowing me to correct false ones.

Every New Year comes with a list of predictions. Self-predictions, world predictions, how many times Lindsay Lohan will get arrested predictions, etc. I reserve the annual trend for people with genuine psychic ability and/or bloggers.

I have never seen myself as an alarmist but rather as a scientist with a critical viewpoint, and in that sense I have always been a skeptic. I have devoted most of my career to developing models for predicting the weather, and in doing so I have learned the importance of validating forecasts against observed weather. As a result, that's an approach I strongly favor for "climate predictions." It's essential to validate model results, especially when dealing with complex systems such as the climate. It's essential do so properly if such predictions are to be considered credible.

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

Predictions are hard, especially abot the future.

I don't read, much less follow, the valuations or predictions. I study the numbers.