It is a test of true theories not only to account for but to predict phenomena.
William Whewell
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I don't pretend that I can predict the future value of the growth rate or rate of return.
Thomas Piketty
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The main points were: one, the amount of Israel's nuclear weapons, how many Israel had, that no one could predict or know, including the CIA. They were thinking about a number like 10 or 15. But I came out with a number between 150 to 200.
Mordechai Vanunu
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Trying to predict the future is a loser's game.
Ken Liu
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Science fiction writers didn't predict the fade-out of NASA's manned space operations, and they weren't prepared with alternative routes to space when that decline became undeniable.
Gregory Benford
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Trying to read our DNA is like trying to understand software code - with only 90% of the code riddled with errors. It's very difficult in that case to understand and predict what that software code is going to do.
Elon Musk
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I've been in movies where so much of the conversation was about, 'Well, after this movie, you're gonna be the biggest movie star.' I sort of have learned that you never really can predict any of that.
Alden Ehrenreich
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I never predict anything, and I never will.
Paul Gascoigne
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You never know what's going to happen the rest of the way. You can't predict. You don't know what Montreal is going to do to us this weekend, and you don't know what the Cubs are going to do to the Cardinals.
Keith Hernandez
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As writers, we can't predict who might come along who might find our offerings valuable.
Wallace Shawn
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One of my few shortcomings is that I can't predict the future.
Lars Ulrich
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I think it's almost impossible for any expert to predict for the rapid changes we see in the Middle East. They are rapid and they will continue for quite a while.
Abdullah II of Jordan
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You can't predict what someone else is going to do and when someone else is going to leave.
Jennifer Connelly
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I predict 2016 will be a year of upheaval and realignment across the world. China's economy will continue to sputter. Commodity exporting countries will suffer. Europe's growth will remain flat-lined. The U.S. will plug along at under 3% growth.
John J. McLaughlin
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For years, my early work with Roger Penrose seemed to be a disaster for science. It showed that the universe must have begun with a singularity, if Einstein's general theory of relativity is correct. That appeared to indicate that science could not predict how the universe would begin.
Stephen Hawking
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If every song is in the past tense, that's a drag, so you have to predict the future.
Ry Cooder
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You can't predict things in football because anything can happen.
Luka Modric
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It is difficult to predict technology more than 10 years out with any certitude, but what I observe is that change and innovation happens earlier and faster than we expect. We are constantly surprised at what technology can do.
Jared Cohen
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You can never predict what's going to be successful, so you have to do the one you really love, and I picked 'Mad Men.'
Christina Hendricks
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No one can predict the future.
Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang
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I predict after this whole thing is over, what we'll remember about the failed candidacy of Donald Trump is, 'You're fired.'
Tim Kaine
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Second point is no one here could predict or know that Israel was involved or started producing the hydrogen bomb - the most advanced and powerful atomic bomb that can kill millions of people.
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If you can predict where the market's going, just do what you can predict. If you can't, which is the presumption of dollar cost averaging or time cost averaging, either one, then you're trying to ease in. But if the market rises more than it falls most of the time, easing in is, by definition, a loser's game.
Kenneth Fisher
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The best way to predict the future is to change it.
George M. Church
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