Harold Wilson
Politician
"It is quite clear to me that the Tory Party will get rid of Mrs Thatcher in about 3 years time."
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Predictions
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Lee De Forest
Inventor
"While theoretically and technically television may be feasible, commercially and financially it is an impossibility."
Charlie Munger
Investor, Businessman
"Berkshireis in the business of making easy predictions If a deal looks too hard, the partners simply shelve it."
Charlie Munger
Investor, Businessman
"We're the tortoise that has outrun the hare because it chose the easy predictions."
Stewart Brand
Environmentalist, Author
"All buildings are predictions. All predictions are wrong."
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"Every lawyer of experience comes to know (more or less unconsciously) that in the great majority of cases, the precedents are none too good as bases of prediction. Somehow or other, there are plenty of precedents to go around."
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"The aeroplane is tragically unsuited for ocean service."
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"A prediction about the direction of the stock market tells you nothing about where stocks are headed, but a whole lot about the person doing the predicting."
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"A prediction is a prediction because it's predictable."
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"The one prediction that never comes true is, 'You'll thank me for telling you this."
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"With high hope for the future, no prediction is ventured."
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"I have discovered that a screw-shaped device such as this, if it is well made from starched linen, will rise in the air if turned quickly."
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"Prediction is difficult- particularly when it involves the future."
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"If the facts are contrary to any predictions, then the hypothesis is wrong no matter how appealing."
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"I have yet to see a successful prediction about the physical world that was inferred or extrapolated from the content of any religions document."
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"I am frequently astonished that it so often results in correct predictions of experimental results."
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"Perhaps the safest prediction we can make about the future is that it will surprise us."
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"Weather abroad and weather in the heart alike come on Regardless of prediction."
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"I take no pleasure in the fact that the scientific predictions I’ve relayed to popular audiences turn out to be true."
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"A model is a good model if first it interprets a wide range of observations in terms of a simple and elegant model, and second if the model makes definite predictions that can be tested, and possibly falsified, by observation."
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"You seem to be drowning twice," said Hermione. "Oh, am I?" said Ron peering down at his predictions. "I'd better change one of them to getting trampled by a rampaging Hippogriff."
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"A prediction, in a field where prediction is not possible, is no more than a prejudice."
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"Absolute prediction is completion . . . is death!"
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"I am saying that all predictions concerning climate are highly uncertain."
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"We're mortal, yet without a known expiration date. It's an inevitable fate worthy of acceptance, but not deserving of predictions."
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