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Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • The usefulness of the models in constructing a testable theory of the process is severely limited by the quickly increasing number of parameters which must be estimated in order to compare the predictions of the models with empirical results.

  • Science is not about making predictions or performing experiments. Science is about explaining.

  • You can't make money with a consensus accurate prediction

  • The only thing that we know about financial predictions of start-ups is that 100 percent of them are wrong

  • I do not think that a flight across the Atlantic will be made in our time, and in our time I include the youngest readers.

  • There are no practical alternatives to air transportation.

  • Rail travel at high speed is not possible because passengers, unable to breathe, would die of asphyxia.

  • 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.

  • An experiment disproving a prediction is discovery.

  • Prediction is a very difficult business, particularly about the future

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