Top 45 Predictions Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Predictions Quotes from famous people such as Murray Gell-Mann, Martin McGuinness, Brian Greene, Anthony Fauci, Billy Eichner, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

I am frequently astonished that it so often results in

I am frequently astonished that it so often results in correct predictions of experimental results.
Murray Gell-Mann
If Britain votes to leave the European Union, then that could have huge implications for the entire island of Ireland and, given all the predictions, would run counter to the democratic wishes of the Irish people.
Martin McGuinness
Quantum mechanics broke the mold of the previous framework, classical mechanics, by establishing that the predictions of science are necessarily probabilistic.
Brian Greene
I’m generally considered a conservative in my predictions for disease.
Anthony Fauci
I would watch the Oscars and every award show with my parents. I would make lists of who was going to win. 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.
Billy Eichner
I’m not superstitious about anything in my life – except for playoff hockey. I get really kind of sketchy and weird about it. I don’t like talking about it. I don’t like making predictions.
CM Punk
My predictions are notably inaccurate.
Robert Caro
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.
Rasheed Wallace
We have this very clean picture of science, you know, these well-established rules with which we make predictions. But when you’re really doing science, when you’re doing research, you’re at the edge of what we know.
Lisa Randall
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.
Brian Schmidt
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.
Jaggi Vasudev
I was really interested to see whether we could make predictions or forecasts by listening in on what people were saying on social media.
Noreena Hertz
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.
Amanda Seales
It’s illegitimate to talk about a post-scarcity Utopia without talking about questions of distribution. There have always been these Utopian predictions – ‘electricity too cheap to meter’ was the atomic promise of the 1950s.
Mitch Kapor
And it’s interesting, when you look at the predictions made during the peak of the boom in the 1990s, about e-commerce, or internet traffic, or broadband adoption, or internet advertising, they were all right – they were just wrong in time.
Chris Anderson
Predictions are a mug’s game.
Nigel Farage
For me personally, the technology that has taken the most unexpected turn in my lifetime is what I refer to as ‘the device formerly known as the cell phone.’ I still remember many predictions that by 2000 there would only be about a million cell phone users. Boy, were they ever wrong!
Padmasree Warrior
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.
Marlee Matlin
All those predictions about how much economic growth will be created by this, all of those new jobs, would be created by the things we wanted – the extension of unemployment insurance and middle class tax cuts. An estate tax for millionaires adds exactly zero jobs. A tax cut for billionaires – virtually none.
Anthony Weiner
Never make predictions, especially about the future.
Casey Stengel
I have been doing technology foresight for a number of years now on the level of scenario design, primarily. I want to become more rigorous with research methodology and statistical methods. I want to shift from creating clever SF scenarios to being a professional forecaster able to make rigorous predictions.
Karl Schroeder
I figure lots of predictions is best. People will forget the ones I get wrong and marvel over the rest.
Alan Cox
Agency by agency, we frequently have lost a bit of ground, at least to inflation-but had it not been for the efforts we’ve made to educate people about the importance of science, technology and advanced education, those predictions very well might have come true.
Charles Vest
In the current scenario of climate change, predictions of extreme weather events are becoming difficult.
M. S. Swaminathan
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.
Joe Hart
If the facts are contrary to any predictions, then the hypothesis is wrong no matter how appealing.
David Douglass
Would you bet your paycheck on a weather forecast for tomorrow? If not, then why should this country bet billions on global warming predictions that have even less foundation?
Thomas Sowell
Science has very definite faith components, and most religions don’t stick to faith. They venture out into making predictions about our physical world. They don’t just say there’s something that is completely unconnected to us. They say actually it affects a lot. And when they do that, they merge.
George M. Church
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.
Nate Silver
For a long time, I have been making many predictions, far in advance, of events since come to pass, naming the particular locality. I acknowledge all to have been accomplished through divine power and inspiration.
Nostradamus
The energy of college football rivals that of a live performance for me. I am an extremely analytical guy and predicting these games is right up my alley, especially with a little luck thrown in. It is even more fun when I am winning and I have to say, I have fared quite well in my predictions.
Rodney Atkins
I think people are going to return to sanity when they

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.
Dixie Lee Ray
If I am going to trash others for their dumb predictions, I must at least hold myself to the same sort of accountability.
Barry Ritholtz
When good fighters fight, they often make predictions. It’s all part of the media hype beforehand.
Carl Froch
Politics is not predictions and politics is not observations. Politics is what we do. Politics is what we do, politics is what we create, by what we work for, by what we hope for and what we dare to imagine.
Paul Wellstone
Whenever you try to pick market tops and bottoms, you are making a prediction. Guessing what stock is going to outperform the market is forecasting, as is selling a stock for no apparent reason. Indeed, nearly all capital decisions made by most people are unconscious predictions.
Barry Ritholtz
If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
M. H. Abrams
I don’t like to make predictions, because my life’s been pretty unpredictable so far.
Kaya Scodelario
The funny thing is, I sometimes get the impression that some people outside of the field think that there’s some element of security that we have in working on a theory that hasn’t made any predictions that can be proven false. In a sense, we’re working on something unfalsifiable.
Brian Greene
Thinking things like, ‘I will never get hired for this job,’ or ‘Nobody ever listens to me,’ can alter your behavior in a way that makes those predictions come true.
Amy Morin
You can predict all you want, but everybody knows what predictions get you.
Hope Solo
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.
Nate Silver
Very much, string theory is simply a work in progress. What we are inching toward every day are predictions that within the realm of current technology we hope to test. It’s not like we’re working on a theory that is permanently beyond experiment. That would be philosophy.
Brian Greene
We are both disturbed and fascinated by visions of bleak futures, predictions of what might come if we as a society aren’t careful.
Marie Lu
Left Behind takes what to some people may be unbelievable predictions from the Bible and shows how they might play out. It makes the events of biblical prophecy understandable and thus believable.
Jerry B. Jenkins