As if these were the maps that we would need to predict where you would find the beaver.

As J.P. Morgan put it when asked to predict what stock prices would do, They will fluctuate.

Moreover, no one can predict the discovery of new knowledge if they could, it would already have been discovered.

To be sure, it would be impossible to predict, under the currently favoured top down principle, how much temperature increase the world would have to bear.

No one can predict or assume what a limited attack on Iran s nuclear installations would accomplish, cost, or lead to.

Many predict that Morsi would not be executed, as such cases can be appealed and can take years in court.

The outcome is difficult to predict.

What has happened is (fortunately) not an everyday occurrence it would be foolish to look at past recoveries to predict this one.

That is why it appears safer to predict high volatility in 2010 than to predict that home prices will rise.

Some, indeed, now predict a Chinese banking or fiscal disaster others predict long term stagnation equivalent to Japan s lost decades.

Just as we can't predict what one molecule in a gas will do it's hopeless to predict a single molecule yet we can predict the properties of the whole gas, using thermodynamics, very accurately.

) The programme should have maximum transparency so that would be applicants can predict with certainty what the outcome of their application will be.

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Economists did not predict that event, either.

I would predict, if you're a representative sample, that many more of you insure your iPhones than your lives, even when you have kids.

It doesn't necessarily predict a win win outcome.

Some people even predict a double dip recession.

It s tempting to predict how this will end.

What will happen is still impossible to predict.

It is impossible for anyone to predict bubbles accurately.

I cannot predict who will win this growing confrontation.

It is far too soon to predict another revolution.

The endgame to any crisis is difficult to predict.

No sound monetarist thinks those numbers predict current inflation.

And some also predict ethnic clashes in the country.

Serum aldosterone levels predict risk of elevated blood pressure.

But, of course, we cannot overcome long run uncertainty. As J.P. Morgan put it when asked to predict what stock prices would do, They will fluctuate.

Who would have dared, even a few weeks ago, to predict that in the end it would be the divided Europeans, not the United States, who determined how to contain the global financial crisis?

Very dumb approach simply compartmentalize. Put those things whose evolution we could predict and I don't mean that we could say whatever would actually happen in the future, but we have some certainty of the spectrum of whatever would happen in the future put those in boxes designed specifically for it, and put the things that we can't predict on the rooftops.

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There is currently insufficient data to predict either outcome confidently.

He performed research demonstrating that his theories could predict behavior.

The point is that if Europe can keep these symbols alive, even a eurozone breakup would not have the dire political consequences for Europe that so many predict.

No one can predict exactly what surprises are in store tonight.

Some scientists today predict a repeat of an avian flu pandemic.

If the volume of oil resources were known with certainty, and if we could accurately predict the growth of oil consumption, calculating the imminence of exhaustion would be simple.

It is reasonable to ask how well we would be able to predict or assess a storm like Sandy without the knowledge and capacity gained through such international collaboration.

And what this means is we can predict learning, we can predict enhanced engagement, these windows, these windows of time, in which the learning is taking place at an enhanced level.

Some drug researchers predict that with continuing advances in understanding the human genome, doctors may eventually be able to predict illnesses 15 20 years in advance, and begin prophylactic treatment immediately.

Yet anyone who would like to predict Sharon's future behavior should remember that unlike Begin and Shamir, Sharon comes from the military, and for him security not ideology is supreme.

Some forecasters predict a soft landing, but differ on the growth rate.

It is difficult to predict the fate of such a blinkered regime.

Of course, no one can predict when such a crisis might occur.

When you open a Pandora s box, nobody can predict what will happen.

By measuring their student smiles, researchers were able to predict how fulfilling and long lasting a subject's marriage will be, how well she would score on standardized tests of well being and how inspiring she would be to others.