Leonard Mlodinow Quotes

Never make predictions, especially about the future.

Predicting the future is very difficult. As a historian I have trouble trying to predict the past.

It would be foolish, in forming our expectations, to attach great weight to matters which are very uncertain.

The past and the present are within the field of my inquiry, but what a man may do in the future is a hard question to answer.

My gran'ther's rule was safer 'n 'tis to crow: Don't never prophesy — onless ye know.

A prediction, in a field where prediction is not possible, is no more than a prejudice.

Nobody can see into the future. Nobody knows what going to go on.

I've never been able to predict the future of anything.

The past, like the future, is indefinite and exists only as a spectrum of possibilities.

You can't know what the future holds, though you might conjecture on it, and if you're psychic, you might venture a guess.

I can't predict the future.

You mustn't take what I say as gospel because no one can second-guess the future.

It is hard to say what the future holds, but this is probable - it won't be just like the past.

Trying to predict the future is like trying to drive down a country road at night with no lights while looking out the back window.

I never predict anything, and I never will.

I can't speak for the future. I have no crystal ball.

I don't think of myself predicting things. I'm expressing possibilities. Things that could happen. To a large extent it's a question of how badly people want them to.

Prediction is very difficult, especially if it's about the future.

I'm not making any bets on the future.

The rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.

There is only one thing about which I am certain, and that is that there is very little about which one can be certain.

Predictions are so often, so wrong ... The future is just too complicated.

Any prediction of the future is certainly a lie in order to sell a position.

When you are in the future, the past looks different.

The ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year – and to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn’t happen.