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

As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart’s desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.

Making that prediction, I just don’t know where to begin.

Among all forms of mistake, prophecy is the most gratuitous.

They told me I wouldn’t make 25. Then it was 35, then 45. These were my doctors speaking – they’re all dead now.

Wait a minute. What did you just say? You’re predicting $4-a-gallon gas? … That’s interesting. I hadn’t heard that.

I have yet to see a successful prediction about the physical world that was inferred or extrapolated from the content of any religions document.

Whenever people have used religious documents to make accurate predictions about our base knowledge of the physical world, they have been famously wrong.