#predict

It is almost possible to predict one or two days in advance, within a rather broad range of probability, what the weather is going to be; it is even thought that it will not be impossible to publish daily forecasts, which would be very useful to soci. ↗

— Antoine Lavoisier

#almost #broad #broad range #daily #days

The American people are smart. They've gotten sick of the predictable hyperpartisan talking points and canned anger. ↗

— John Avlon

#american people #anger #canned #gotten #people

Two years before the last election you nor anyone else would have predicted that Barack Obama was going to get elected president of the United States. ↗

— David Axelrod

#barack #barack obama #before #elected #election

If the facts are contrary to any predictions, then the hypothesis is wrong no matter how appealing. ↗

— David Douglass

#appealing #contrary #facts #how #hypothesis

Prediction? The Democrats will win. I think it will be a close win, both for the House and for the Senate. ↗

— John Dingell

#close #democrats #house #i #i think

The best subjects are always people, who never fail to amaze me by their unpredictability. ↗

— Ronnie James Dio

#amaze #best #fail #me #never

Of all the nasty outcomes predicted for women's liberation... none was more alarming, from a feminist point of view, than the suggestion that women would eventually become just like men. ↗

— Barbara Ehrenreich

#become #eventually #feminist #just #liberation

Cutting up fowl to predict the future is, if done honestly and with as little interpretation as possible, a kind of randomization. But chicken guts are hard to read and invite flights of fancy or corruption. ↗

— Ian Hacking

#corruption #cutting #done #fancy #flights

Prediction by analogy -creativity - is so pervasive we normally don't notice it. ↗

— Jeff Hawkins

#normally #notice #pervasive #prediction

The real world is far too complex and unpredictable to make something like the idea of humanity controlling its own evolution or engineering itself - well, I wouldn't say impossible but it should be approached with a degree of caution. ↗

— Ken MacLeod

#caution #complex #controlling #degree #engineering