“But though predictions may be wrong, they are right about the people who voice them, not about their future but about their experience of the present moment”
“You have to predict and examine and understand every argument the other side is going to throw at you. It's not about being the one who's right. It's about showing them why they're wrong.”
“He called it The Bridge because that was how felt about books. They connected the past and the present, the present and the future. Books brought people together and gave them a path to worlds they would not otherwise experience.”
“While I wasn't certain how I felt about spiritualists, I was certain enough about the type of people who were drawn to them. Only people unhappy in the present seek to know the future.”
“Science is not about making predictions or performing experiments. Science is about explaining.”
“Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future.”