Prediction Quotes

"Physics is the only profession in which prophecy is not only accurate but routine."

Neil deGrasse Tyson

“When wireless is perfectly applied the whole earth will be converted into a huge brain, which in fact it is, all things being particles of a real and rhythmic whole. We shall be able to communicate with one another instantly, irrespective of distance.”

“Within a few years a simple and inexpensive device, readily carried about, will enable one to receive on land or sea the principal news, to hear a speech, a lecture, a song or play of a musical instrument, conveyed from any other region of the globe.”

“In the twenty-first century, the robot will take the place which slave labour occupied in ancient civilisation.”

“The newspapers of the twenty-first century will give a mere "stick" in the back pages to accounts of crime or political controversies, but will headline on the front pages the proclamation of a new scientific hypothesis.”

“The Secretary of Hygiene or Physical Culture will be far more important in the cabinet of the President of the United States who holds office in the year 2035 than the Secretary of War.”

"He who lives by the crystal ball will eat shattered glass."

Ray Dalio

"The best prophet of the future is the past."

Lord Byron