#predict

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

The press is still investing itself, it seems to me, in a sort of cynicism. It comes out better for them if they can predict hard times, bogging down, sniping, attrition. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#better #comes #cynicism #down #hard

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

You can only predict things after they have happened. ↗

— Eugene Ionesco

#happened #only #predict #things #you

About seven years later I was given a book about the periodic table of the elements. For the first time I saw the elegance of scientific theory and its predictive power. ↗

— Sidney Altman

#book #elegance #elements #first #first time

Science has not yet mastered prophecy. We predict too much for the next year and yet far too little for the next 10. ↗

— Neil Armstrong

#little #mastered #much #next #next year

It's very hard for me to know what to say about fusion right now, inasmuch as it is not yet scientifically feasible. I just can't understand how so many people are able to predict so much about something that still isn't scientifically possible. ↗

— David R. Brower

#about #feasible #fusion #hard #how

A nice blend of prediction and surprise seem to be at the heart of the best art. ↗

— Wendy Carlos

#best #blend #heart #nice #prediction

But I'd rather not predict. I'd rather affect. ↗

— James Carville

#i #predict #rather