Yuri Milner

Science is one of a handful of things that defines us as a very special species. It is amazing how far we have been able to get and how accurate our predictions are. I think understanding how the universe was born is very important. It really gives us a perspective on many things.

Russian Businessman

Charles Vest

Agency by agency, we frequently have lost a bit of ground, at least to inflation-but had it not been for the efforts we've made to educate people about the importance of science, technology and advanced education, those predictions very well might have come true.

American Educator

Neil deGrasse Tyson

There is no example of someone reading their scripture and saying, 'I have a prediction about the world that no one knows yet, because this gave me insight. Let's go test that prediction,' and have the prediction be correct.

American Scientist

Hannah Fry

The weather doesn't respect political or geographic boundaries: we're all living under the same sky. And so weather prediction has been a marvel not only of technology but also of international cooeperation.

English Mathematician

Eric Maskin

Prediction is certainly a valuable goal in science, but not the only one. Explanation is also important, and there are plenty of sciences that do a lot of explaining and not much predicting.

American Economist

Nate Silver

To the extent that you can find ways where you're making predictions, there's no substitute for testing yourself on real-world situations that you don't know the answer to in advance.

American Writer

Brian Schmidt

Science is not, despite how it is often portrayed, about absolute truths. It is about developing an understanding of the world, making predictions, and then testing these predictions.

Australian Scientist

Edward Witten

One very important aspect of string theory is definitely testable. That was the prediction of supersymmetry, which emerged from string theory in the early '70s.

American Mathematician

Kaya Scodelario

I don't like to make predictions, because my life's been pretty unpredictable so far.

British Actress

Christopher Reeve

I never said I will stand, I said I hoped to stand. It wasn't a prediction.

American Actor

Predictions are educated guesses about the future, not facts.

Reality Check

Predictions often reflect someone's personal opinion or belief.

Personal Opinion

Predictions can be wrong, as they're based on current knowledge.

Not Always Accurate

Sports predictions are common in discussions among fans and commentators.

Fan Conversations

Predictions in sports can be linked to betting and gambling.

Betting Implications

Predictions in science test whether a hypothesis is accurate.

Hypothesis Testing

Scientific predictions should be based on evidence or previous research.

Evidence-Based

Financial predictions often use economic indicators to anticipate trends.

Economic Indicators

In finance, predictions can influence investment decisions and risk assessment.

Investment Decisions

 and we store them, and we recall them. When we recall them, we match them up against reality, and we're making predictions all the time. It's an internal metric; there's an internal metric about us, saying, do we understand the world, am I making predictions, and so on. You're all being intelligent now, but you're not doing anything.

Jeff Hawkins: How brain...

 Along with the idea that the visible universe has been constantly expanding from a densely packed single point, one of this theory's most important predictions is that the early universe consisted of just two hydrogen and helium, in a ratio of three to one. And this prediction can also be tested with light.

What light can teach us...

 social scientists and policy experts have to work with. But understanding a country's situation and making accurate predictions requires knowing not just the total size of the population but its internal characteristics, such as age and gender distribution. So, how can we keep track of all that data

Population pyramids:...

 seeing if we understand why an animal uses a certain habitat then we can actually forecast and make prediction as to what it should do in a different location just because in areas protected the sharks themselves don't actually know that they're within a protected

The Man Who Swims...

 One way futurists arrive at their predictions is by analyzing movements and trends in society, and charting the paths they are likely to follow into the future with varying degrees of probability. Their work informs the decisions of policymakers and world leaders,

How science fiction can...

 dozens of experiments have tested the EPR prediction, and all have found the same quantum mechanics is correct. The correlations between the indeterminate states of entangled particles are real and cannot be explained by any deeper variable.

Einstein's brilliant...

 A truly advanced civilization, then, would harness both stellar energy and subatomic technologies. But these predictions weren't made just for us humans. They double as a possible means of detecting intelligent life in the universe.

Is there a limit to...

 size of problem increases the time taken on a supercomputer increases exponentially and it rapidly hits the age of the universe the prediction is that for a quantum computer the scaling is very different and it maintains its

How do you build a...

 by a passing comet. So, rather than an omen of death, the comet that first brought amino acids to Earth could have been a portent of life, a prediction of a distant future, where creatures of stardust

Could comets be the...

 nobody in the world studies we wanted to make these future worlds to see what things would look like we're raising the temperature and boosting the temperature based on different climate predictions