#predict

It is a test of true theories not only to account for but to predict phenomena. ↗

— William Whewell

#only #phenomena #predict #test #theories

I can't predict the future. ↗

— Paul Wolfowitz

#i #predict

Washington is unpredictable these days. ↗

— Steve Wynn

#these #unpredictable #washington

What I think is amazing is not that 85% of people who get married under the age of 25 get divorced, it's that 15% of them stay together. How did they manage to pull that off? You almost can't wait too long. It's the single simplest measure to predict divorce. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#almost #amazing #did #divorce #divorced

But once you are in that field, emotional intelligence emerges as a much stronger predictor of who will be most successful, because it is how we handle ourselves in our relationships that determines how well we do once we are in a given job. ↗

— Daniel Goleman

#determines #emerges #emotional #field #given

I would say that IQ is the strongest predictor of which field you can get into and hold a job in, whether you can be an accountant, lawyer or nurse, for example. ↗

— Daniel Goleman

#accountant #example #field #for example #get

We are glorious accidents of an unpredictable process with no drive to complexity, not the expected results of evolutionary principles that yearn to produce a creature capable of understanding the mode of its own necessary construction. ↗

— Stephen Jay Gould

#capable #complexity #construction #creature #drive

Most of the research which is done is determined by the requirement that it shall, in a fairly obvious and predictable way, reinforce the approved or fashionable theories. ↗

— Celia Green

#determined #done #fairly #fashionable #most

Hooks need to be predictable and not predictable at the same time. ↗

— Ken Hill

#need #predictable #same #time

This story, I predict, will grow to be worse than Watergate. The American people need to have the answers. ↗

— Curt Weldon

#american people #answers #grow #i #need