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If we wish to foresee the future of mathematics, our proper course is to study the history and prese...

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In much of the rest of the world, rich people live in gated communities and drink bottled water. Tha...

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All this will not be finished in the first one hundred days. Nor will it be finished in the first on...

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Foresight of phenomenon and power over them depend on knowledge of their sequences, and not upon any...

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John Stuart MillAuguste Comte And Positivism

If you knew what was going to happen, if you knew everything that was going to happen next—if you kn...

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Evolution is a blind giant who rolls a snowball down a hill. The ball is made of flakes—circumstance...

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Our approach to existential risks cannot be one of trial-and-error. There is no opportunity to learn...

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A serious prophet upon predicting a flood should be the first man to climb a tree. This would demons...

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Humans are often credited with having real foresight, in distinction to the rest of biology which do...

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Look ere thou leap see ere thou go.

Fear is the mother of foresight.

Panic is something that good operations officers plan for.

There should be an honored place in history for statesmen whose ideas turned out to be right.

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Walter IsaacsonAmerican Sketches: Great Leaders

The best way to keep something bad from happening is to see it ahead of time... and you can't see it...

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Don't despair: despair suggests you are in total control and know what is coming. You don't - surren...

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In life as in chess forethought wins.

If a man take no thought about what is distant he will find sorrow near at hand.