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The idea that the future is unpredictable is undermined every day by the ease with which the past is...

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The fantastic advances in the field of electronic communication constitute a greater danger to the p...

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If America and the Western world continue in their state of unconscious hopelessness, lack of faith ...

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You know the logics setup. You got a logic in your house. It looks like a vision receiver used to, o...

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...the ratings agencies' problem was in being unable or uninterested in appreciating the distinction...

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Distinguishing the signal from the noise requires both scientific knowledge and self-knowledge: the ...

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Nate SilverThe Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail - But Some Don't

Prediction is very difficult, especially if it's about the future.

The year 2100 will see eugenics universally established. In past ages, the law governing the surviva...

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Conspiracy theory, like causality, works fantastically well as an explanatory model but only if you ...

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I was not predicting the future, I was trying to prevent it.

It sounds like a fairy-tale, but not only that; this story of what man by his science and practical ...

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Sigmund FreudCivilization and Its Discontents

The behavior of a human being in sexual matters is often a prototype for the whole of his other mode...

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Sigmund FreudSexuality and the Psychology of Love

I remember when we found the first population of living Cerion agassizi in central Eleuthera. Our hy...

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Stephen Jay GouldThe Flamingo's Smile: Reflections in Natural History

The dogs were really keening now, like Irish widows.

I'm convinced that before the year 2000 is over, the first child will have been born on the moon.

Storm WarningsThe glass has been falling all the afternoon, And knowing better than the instrument W...

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There are at the present time two great nations in the world, which started from different points, b...

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He explained that unlike our other classes in the program, research was all about prediction and con...

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Brené BrownDaring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live

I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time -- when the United States...

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Carl SaganThe Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

A time will come when men will stretch out their eyes. They should see planets like our Earth.