Those who have knowledge, don't predict. Those who predict, don't have knowledge.
We cannot even predict what kinds of emergent properties would appear when animals begin interacting as part of a brain-net. In theory, you could imagine that a combination of brains could provide solutions that individual brains cannot achieve by themselves.
You can't predict what someone else is going to do and when someone else is going to leave.
However, the models also predict unambiguously that the atmosphere is warming faster than the surface of the earth; but all the available observational data unambiguously shows the opposite!
While classical mechanics correctly predicts the behavior of large objects such as tennis balls, to predict the behavior of small objects such as electrons, we must use quantum mechanics.
Trying to predict the future is like trying to drive down a country road at night with no lights while looking out the back window.
If God has made the world a perfect mechanism, He has at least conceded so much to our imperfect intellect that in order to predict little parts of it, we need not solve innumerable differential equations, but can use dice with fair success.
If I know you're very good in music, I can predict with just about zero accuracy whether you're going to be good or bad in other things.
I hate when you see a film and after one scene you know what's going to happen and you can predict the whole story.
I really believe you can predict when someone has a great attitude, a real well of talent.
I never want to predict the relationship between music and advertising.
In the future, instead of striving to be right at a high cost, it will be more appropriate to be flexible and plural at a lower cost. If you cannot accurately predict the future then you must flexibly be prepared to deal with various possible futures.
One of my few shortcomings is that I can't predict the future.
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.
I can't predict whether I'll leave here freely or in handcuffs.
I won't predict anything historic. But nothing is impossible.
I don't really try to predict what can and will happen with things. Sometimes you think something's gonna be a huge success, and it isn't. And sometimes you pay no attention to something whatsoever, and God just makes it into everything.
I've never been able to predict the future of anything.
Googling me, you talk about being depressed. First of all there's 18 websites that predict my early death.
If we as writers could predict what readers grab on to, we would write it.
Periods of nostalgia are impossible to predict or explain.
You know how it is with writing. You just write what you want to write. There's no way to predict what is good or bad. You just do what you think is funny, and either it works or you're finished. It's impossible to predict anything.
One lesson is that if you want to predict voter turnout, you should ask whether at least one candidate is attracting high levels of enthusiasm - not whether the stakes are high, or even perceived to be high. That fits the historical pattern.
Science has not yet mastered prophecy. We predict too much for the next year and yet far too little for the next 10.
The CBO does a great job on budget; they do a relatively poor job of what the coverage consequences of a healthcare plan are. Their ability - anybody's ability - to predict what human behavior is going to be, without looking at the entire construct, is difficult.
I can't predict the future and I don't have respect for people who try to.
You never know until a song comes out and becomes what it becomes, obviously you can't predict how the masses will react.
At the simplest level, economics can better show us the consequences of our actions. Less simple are cases in which we don't have the knowledge to predict the full consequences. Global warming and climate change are examples.
The expectation in the Obama Administration, or at least the hope, is that a nuclear deal with the West could ultimately moderate Iranian behavior by helping to integrate the country more thoroughly into the international system. Will this happen? It's impossible to predict, of course. We will only know if we get there.
It is very difficult to predict when a bond crisis could happen.
To me, all success is a delightful surprise, since one can absolutely never predict it.
The idea of trying to predict what people will or won't respond to is risky.
It is better to predict dramatic things that don't happen than boring things that do.
I won't even try to predict the specifics, but I think the ebook - as a medium - could be a game-changer.
You must always be able to predict what's next and then have the flexibility to evolve.
Medicine will be personalized and preventive: Your genome might predict that you have an 80 percent chance of breast cancer by the time you are 50, but if you take a preventive drug starting when you are 40, the chance will drop to 2 percent.
