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

Niels Bohr
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  2. A mathematician is an individual who believes that prophesying that his dog will die if he deprives it of food constitutes a prediction. - Bill Gaede

  3. Science is not about making predictions or performing experiments. Science is about explaining. - Bill Gaede

  4. Whereas a novice makes moves until he gets checkmated (proof), a Grand Master realizes 20 moves in advance that it’s futile to continue playing (conceptualizing). - Bill Gaede

  5. It is a healthy approach not to expect persons to turn out precisely how you would have wished. - Criss Jami

More Quotes By Niels Bohr
  1. You can recognize a small truth because its opposite is a falsehood. The opposite of a great truth is another truth.

  2. The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.

  3. Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future.

  4. There are trivial truths and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.

  5. An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.

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