Contrary to popular accounts, very few scientists in the world - possibly none - have a sufficiently thorough, 'big picture' understanding of the climate system to be relied upon for a prediction of the magnitude of global warming. To the public, we all might seem like experts, but the vast majority of us work on only a small portion of the problem.
The one prediction that never comes true is, 'You'll thank me for telling you this.
Without wishing to damp the ardor of curiosity or influence the freedom of inquiry, I will hazard a prediction that, after the most industrious and impartial researchers, the longest liver of you all will find no principles, institutions or systems of education more fit in general to be transmitted to your posterity than those you have received from your ancestors.
Absolute prediction is completion. . . is death!
Prediction is a low form of journalism.
Global warming isn't a prediction. It is happening.
It is very difficult to make an accurate prediction, especially about the future.
The problem is not one of prediction. It is one of imagination.
I never said I will stand, I said I hoped to stand. It wasn't a prediction.
The prediction of nuclear winter is drawn not, of course, from any direct experience with the consequences of global nuclear war, but rather from an investigation of the governing physics.
A mathematician is an individual who believes that prophesying that his dog will die if he deprives it of food constitutes a prediction.
Prediction, not narration, is the real test of our understanding of the world.
When the number of factors coming into play in a phenomenological complex is too large scientific method in most cases fails. One need only think of the weather, in which case the prediction even for a few days ahead is impossible.
Nobody wants a prediction that the future will be more or less like the present, even if that is, statistically speaking, an excellent prediction.
It does not matter who you are, or how smart you are, or what title you have, or how many of you there are, and certainly not how many papers your side has published, if your prediction is wrong then your hypothesis is wrong. Period.
Wouldn't you like to contribute to an event that is part of Christ's own prediction, "I will build my church"?
Management is prediction.
Never believe a prediction that does not empower you.
I think science fiction is very bad at prediction.
And as for Mixed Mathematics, I may only make this prediction, that there cannot fail to be more kinds of them, as nature grows further disclosed.
