Predictive Ability Quotes

I don't think you can predict success, but you get a feeling if something's going to be good or bad.

Memory has many conveniences, and, among others, that of foreseeing things as they have afterwards happened.

Intelligence is an extremely subtle concept. It's a kind of understanding that flourishes if it's combined with a good memory, but exists anyway even in the absence of good memory. It's the ability to draw consequences from causes, to make correct inferences, to foresee what might be the result, to work out logical problems, to be reasonable, rational, to have the ability to understand the solution from perhaps insufficient information. You know when a person is intelligent, but you can be easily fooled if you are not yourself intelligent.

Now this foreknowledge cannot be elicited from spirits; it cannot be obtained inductively from experience, nor by any deductive calculation.

I'm a lousy predictor of the future.

Till old experience do attain To something like prophetic strain.

Humans are possessed, to some degree, with the power of foresight. Yet we so often learn things the hard way, through disaster.

As Cuvier could correctly describe a whole animal by the contemplation of a single bone, so the observer who has thoroughly understood one link in a series of incidents should be able to accurately state all the other ones, both before and after.

A good theoretical account must explain all of the evidence that we see. If it doesn't work everywhere, we have no idea what we are talking about, and all is chaos.

Traditional credentialing really doesn't have a lot of predictive value to whether people will be successful.

The experts, for all their superior knowledge, rarely do better than chance in predicting future events.

I believe there is true expertise in some endeavors, and not in others. There is obviously no such thing as expertise in predicting the results of coin tosses, but there is expertise in predicting the behavior of lasers.

It is a test of true theories not only to account for but to predict phenomena.

Was it - was she making a real prediction?' Dumbledore looked mildly impressed. 'Do you know, Harry, I think she might have been,' he said thoughtfully. 'Who'd have thought it? That brings her total of real predictions up to two. I should offer her a pay raise.

Obviously, in football you can study somebody, but at the same time, once you get out there, I think there's just a natural kind of feel for where you think guys might be or where they're going to go and knowing beforehand what's going to happen. It's just like chess.

The power of a theory is exactly proportional to the diversity of situations it can explain.

For a long time, I have been making many predictions, far in advance, of events since come to pass, naming the particular locality. I acknowledge all to have been accomplished through divine power and inspiration.

Wise Man: One who sees the storm coming before the clouds appear.

The well-adjusted make poor prophets.

Were there no men of vision, all who are blind would be dead.

If you can look into the seeds of time, and say which grain will grow and which will not, speak then unto me.

Our ancient forebears who learned to synchronize the movements of dance were those with the capacity to predict what others around them were going to do and signal to others what they wanted to do next. These forms of communication may well have helped lead to the formation of larger human communities.

The thing that people associate with expertise, authoritativeness, kind of with a capital 'A,' don't correlate very well with who's actually good at making predictions.

...theories should be judged by their ability to predict events rather than by the realism of their assumptions.

Strategy is, at some level, the ability to predict what's going to happen, but it's also about understanding the context in which it is being formulated. And then you have to be open-minded to the fact that you're not going to get it right at the very beginning.