#predictions

Social Security has been effective for 70 years; prior predictions of its demise have been totally overstated. ↗

— Grace Napolitano

#demise #effective #overstated #predictions #prior

As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron. ↗

— H.L. Mencken

#elite #elitism #elitist #meritocracy #politics

I figure lots of predictions is best. People will forget the ones I get wrong and marvel over the rest. ↗

— Alan Cox

#figure #forget #get #i #lots

I am frequently astonished that it so often results in correct predictions of experimental results. ↗

— Murray Gell-Mann

#astonished #correct #experimental #frequently #i

I don't think a reporter should give advice or make predictions. ↗

— Peter Jennings

#give #i #make #predictions #reporter

I consider that the chief dangers which confront the coming century will be religion without the Holy Ghost, Christianity without Christ, forgiveness without repentance, salvation without regeneration, politics without God, and heaven without hell. ↗

— William Booth

#predictions #religion #forgiveness

Having established that good ideas do indeed come in from the cold, start on the fringes and become mainstream, can we make any predictions about what the next move will be? ↗

— Nigel Farage

#any #become #cold #come #established

I've ceased making predictions on things because we'll see how they turn out. ↗

— David Plouffe

#ceased #how #i #making #out

The most essential prediction of Darwinism is that, given an astronomical number of chances, unintelligent processes can make seemingly-designed systems, ones of the complexity of those found in the cell. ID specifically denies this, predicting that in the absence of intelligent input no such systems would develop. So Darwinism and ID make clear, opposite predictions of what we should find when we examine genetic results from a stupendous number of organisms that are under relentless pressure from natural selection. The recent genetic results are a stringent test. The results: 1) Darwinism’s prediction is falsified; 2) Design’s prediction is confirmed. ↗

— Michael J. Behe

#chance #darwinism #evolution #id #intelligent-design

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. ↗

— Charles Vest

#advanced #agency #been #bit #come