| 单词 | predict |
| 例句 | I would have predicted that she would be one of the first that Branwell would blink at. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z In the classical theory of general relativity one cannot predict how the universe would have begun because all the known laws of science would have broken down at the big bang singularity. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z This had great significance for astrologers, had been widely predicted and was eagerly anticipated. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z Our neighbors turned to stare at us, because Miles Richter laughing was one of those things that the Mayans had predicted would signal the end of the world. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z All day the radio has been predicting a white Thanksgiving. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z “Yes. That’s what my mother said, anyhow, but who can really predict these things? It’s a shame, though. I thought for sure it would be a boy this time.” Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z These experiments imply that the Sun is dimmer in neutrinos than the calculations predict. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z On that day, no one could have predicted the answer to that question. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z “Always predicting things that come true. Always dreaming stuff and it come out. Fella says I should go in the business. Says I’m a natural medium. You remember that?” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Long after crime had peaked, in fact, some of them continued to predict ever darker scenarios. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z As Eisenhower predicted, the U-2 scandal exploded the new relationship between the United States and the Soviet Union. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z The next scientific step was to compare seriously the experimental X-ray data with the diffraction pattern predicted by our model. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z Team Coding Queens had designed an app that predicted the future. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z As though Perry couldn’t predict precisely what would happen. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z This law predicts the orbits of the earth, the moon, and the planets with great accuracy. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z We should be able to predict which countries are best at math simply by looking at which national cultures place the highest emphasis on effort and hard work. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z I had always believed in the maxim that the best way to predict the future was to create it. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z “You predicted it and my spotter confirmed it this time. Said he ‘touched’ her and she was stone cold. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z “The end of your people and all you stand for. Like your man in Egypt predicted. You didn’t kill me. You were everywhere. Now it’s all over.” The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z I thought I knew her so well that I could predict her every move. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z Everyone presents differently, and responds to meds differently, and no prognosis can truly be predicted. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z Although you may never meet, the three of you will work together in ways none of us can predict. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z He continued his descent, with the computer predicting a perfect landing. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z And yet at the very same time he was happily engaged in using the new astronomy to predict the weather and to decide when doctors should bleed their patients. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z As the bald man predicted, we were able to continually bribe the grouchy woman into visiting the post office for us when she went to the village. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z As things turned out, my father's ordeal proved even worse than might have been predicted. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z “One day I predict you’ll build a ship of your own.” I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912 2010-06-01T00:00:00Z As if they were gods, and didn’t just predict the weather with their instruments and satellites, but also told it what to do. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z There is the Milky Way clear as can be, which predicts bad weather. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z There is no theory of the universe: events cannot be predicted beyond a certain extent but occur in a random and arbitrary manner. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Just like the tracking had predicted, that young family and hundreds of others had somehow figured out the government was hiding something out here. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z I still love you, Gustavo, but it’s a habitual love, a wound in the knee that predicts rain. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z In careful tests, they are unable to predict the character and future of people they know nothing about except their time and place of birth.' Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z But my best friend predicts I will choose the person who I think I “can’t survive without.” Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z Yet it predicts the motions of the sun, the moon, and the planets to a high degree of accuracy. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Billy predicts his own death within an hour. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z It was too early to predict exactly how much would be required, but surely it would be a lot. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Like the conductor, at that moment Miss Lumley had no way of predicting whether her life would turn out happily or in some other, less desirable way. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z He could predict business to go way up. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z Inej had predicted that the Menagerie would arrive late—Tante Heleen loved to make an entrance—but they still needed to be in position and ready to move when the time came. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z But in order to predict these positions correctly, Ptolemy had to make an assumption that the moon followed a path that sometimes brought it twice as close to the earth as at other times. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z But the men a little bit older closed in on the enemy faster than predicted, and then there was the final holocaust of the Bomb. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z Nor are they really complete theories, because they contain a number of parameters whose values cannot be predicted from the theory but have to be chosen to fit in with experiment. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Then two astronomers—the German, Johannes Kepler, and the Italian, Galileo Galilei—started publicly to support the Copernican theory, despite the fact that the orbits it predicted did not quite match the ones observed. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z I can already predict our conversation for the ride home. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z “You can never predict my Prince; that is why he is the greatest hunter.” The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z She could also predict the future and recognize people’s intentions, abilities that she maintained throughout her life and that increased with time. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z What is the pattern that predicts which notes of a harmonic series will be one octave apart? Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z Pretty much everything I predicted would happen happened as I predicted. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z However, as we have seen, classical general relativity predicts its own downfall. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z If someone else were playing Traveler, what would they predict for me and Rufus? They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z Similarly, the Little Ice Age of A.D. 1300-1500 contributed to the extinction of the Greenland Norse, but no historian, and probably not even a modern climatologist, could have predicted the Little Ice Age. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Walking to the fields each morning, I could predict who would be the next to sign. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z In chemistry and physics the acid test of one’s understanding of a system is whether one can successfully predict its future behavior. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z There was a hamburger stand just like Henry had predicted, and Mr. Turner from the grocery store brought a truck with candy, pickles, and sausages on sticks. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z There would be terrible bloodshed, he predicted, unless the British would give over the problem to the United Nations. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z This behavior of the universe could have been predicted from Newton’s theory of gravity at any time in the nineteenth, the eighteenth, or even the late seventeenth century. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z All turned out even better than Hermes had predicted. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z “He more or less repeated his TED Talk and predicted that the future, the world you two will live in, will be a very smart place.” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z “You know when hurricane winds grow quickly, when they explode, meteorologists call that rapid intensification, and I guess it’s super hard to predict. But...I think I felt that way when I broke the frame.” Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z But I did wake up, and the main computer showed the slight rise in C021 had predicted. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Galton knew that the crowning achievement of the law would be its ability to accurately predict a real pattern of inheritance. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Her mother predicted that the war with Japan would force all her daughters to decide who they were and then to become more Japanese. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z Belmont was already talking with CBS Radio, which was offering to broadcast the race live worldwide, predicting that twenty million sets would be tuned to it. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Indeed, as predicted, when the gene encoding the hemoglobin B chain was later identified and sequenced in sickle-cell patients, there was a single change: one triplet in DNA—GAG—had changed to another—GTG. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z To measure and predict these portents requires careful sky watching and a calendar. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z I was drawn to the Pythagorean theorem and its promise of a universal—the ability to predict the nature of any three points containing a right angle, anywhere, always. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z In many countries it was a capital offense for anyone but the official astrologer to read the portents in the skies: a good way to overthrow a regime was to predict its downfall. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “Wasn’t it somebody’s darn business to predict it?” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z The cold front rolls in overnight, just as the meteorologists predicted. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z “A fancy fortune-teller with a bunch of college degrees. He uses science and computers to predict the future. He can tell you what’s going to happen in ten, twenty years.” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z He endeavored to trap and nourish the impression in order to predict, and perhaps even control, what incident would occur next, but the afflatus melted away unproductively, as he had known beforehand it would. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z I try to match his movements, but I can’t predict what he’s going to do, so I end up fumbling more than I’d like to. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z Other people predicted that he would be a prophet. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z Dad said, “You can’t predict—a person can’t foresee—you never know—” He looked away, and I felt miserable right along with him. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z I moved away from the critic and found myself sitting beside a clairvoyant who loudly predicted the fates of the various characters seen moving their lips up on the screen. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z “Of course I do. I just hope it doesn’t spread to Lagos. One really can’t predict these things.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Top players in the United States predicted that Bobby wouldn’t qualify for a place in the Candidates this time. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Already he has lived beyond the deadline the doctor predicted. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z They studied the movements of the moon and planets and predicted eclipses. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z Their model of DNA was not just a pretty picture; the structure predicted the most important features of the function. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z It wasn’t easy; as Ekon had predicted, everyone was pushing forward. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z The challenge is to plan the work and organize the workers so that it will come out precisely as predicted. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z I stare at the board and try to predict the outcome of each match. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z “He had a system for predicting how a horse would do, based on what horse was on either side of him, based on their emotional relationship,” Ekman remembers. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z My father reacted to my pantomime just as Hamlet had predicted he would. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z If he was predicting we couldn’t hold off an attack, that wasn’t good. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z But what he hadn't done was quite important—he hadn't gotten Katherine III on paper, and one cannot take an equation that predicts eighteen out of nineteen Katherines to the Nobel Prize Committee. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z Influential criminologists predicted a coming wave of "superpredators" with whom the juvenile justice system would be unable to cope. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z He had no reason to return to us, and my parents predicted, correctly, that we would never see him again. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z It had gone beyond Clara’s skill at moving objects without touching them and at predicting the impossible. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z In bubble matches against a supposedly clean opponent, meanwhile, the bubble wrestler was no more likely to win than his record would predict. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z I can tell because I keep finding a whitish smear in my panties, and Mother predicted it would start soon. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z The uncertainty principle of quantum mechanics implies that certain pairs of quantities, such as the position and velocity of a particle, cannot both be predicted with complete accuracy. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z They could predict the orbits of the planets and the motion of objects with great accuracy. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z “Not the part about your head actually being internationally important. Who could have predicted that?” The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z In Harlem especially, and also in some other U.S. cities, the 1964 long, hot summer’s predicted explosions had begun. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Just as Clara had predicted, those who always win won the elections, but by such a small margin that the entire country was put on notice. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z How could I have predicted I would make a friend in Iran? Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z A good example of Kepler’s skill in this despised art came when he was commissioned to produce a calendar for 1595 predicting important events for the year ahead. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z “It predicted what might happen to the seal population off Cape Cod after the Marine Mammal Protection Act became law. Back then, seals had been my focus.” The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z He’d wished to inspect one of the pregnant hounds, though he knew it was impossible to predict the outcome of the litter until she gave birth. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z Everyone predicted that the marriage would not last. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z Across the opening there was, as Jenner had predicted, a coarse screen of heavy wire. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z They were ruining everything, crowding around, criticizing, predicting disaster. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Scientists use something called a correlation to measure how closely one factor predicts another, and overall, the students’ ratings correlated with the experts’ ratings by .55, which is quite a high correlation. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z Not only was Chicago alive, not only was it going to rebuild, but many people predicted it would be bigger and better than before. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z According to Axe and Plouffe, who were buzzing in and out of the room, announcing what felt like every sliver of information they received, everything was unfolding as predicted. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Furthermore, the algorithm would seek out a classroom full of students who performed far better than their past scores would have predicted and who then went on to score significantly lower the following year. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z It also predicted that the electron should have a partner: an antielectron, or positron. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z In general, quantum mechanics does not predict a single definite result for an observation. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Just as Isaac had predicted, the landscape was happily romping away from civilization. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Why was it necessary to calculate an error ellipsoid to accurately predict the satellite’s return to the planet’s surface? Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z He showed each new move on a demonstration board and attempted to predict what Fischer’s or Spassky’s next move might be. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z After a hard fall from the rigging twenty years before, he’d claimed he could predict the duration of a storm by the ache in his bones. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z This means, as Stephen Hawking has observed with a touch of understandable excitement, that one cannot "predict future events exactly if one cannot even measure the present state of the universe precisely!" A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Eddington measured the position of a star during a solar eclipse and spotted the curvature that Einstein had predicted. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z In 1904, long after Vincent's death, she will commit suicide by jumping into the water, just as she had once predicted. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z The result, as might have been predicted, was that the honey made by the bees also was contaminated with schradan. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z I predict skirts with geese and white blouses with embroidered ducks on the collar. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z The series of equations we needed to work described the parameters of thrust coefficient, nozzle-throat area, combustion-chamber cross-sectional areas, and velocity of the gases predicted for any particular propellant. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Wasn’t he the prodigy predicted to become World Champion in two years? Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Eventually the dimming will reverse itself, but scientists predict all multicellular life on Earth will perish long before that occurs. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z One therefore has a theory that seems to predict that certain quantities, such as the curvature of space-time, are really infinite, yet these quantities can be observed and measured to be perfectly finite! A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Those portraits hadn’t captured his dark eyes, and they certainly hadn’t been able to predict how striking he’d turn out to be as he aged. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z The brutal outcome of this collision between the Moriori and the Maori could have been easily predicted. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z After the ovation ended, Dr. Blackbridge went down the list of things he had successfully predicted in the past. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z Food intake predicts body mass index according to a monotonically increasing relation. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z This quantum will disturb the particle and change its velocity in a way that cannot be predicted. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Mrs. Roberts predicted you'd be a rocket scientist because you are awesome at math and are in general out of this world. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z And I could no longer predict where I would find my heroes. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z For example, an orthodox psychoanalyst might predict a certain kind of neurotic behavior. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Inevitably a new system of racialized social control will emerge—one that we cannot foresee, just as the current system of mass incarceration was not predicted by anyone thirty years ago. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z However, the tortoise theory fails to be a good scientific theory because it predicts that people should be able to fall off the edge of the world. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Mercury's orbit, for instance, wobbled in a way that disagreed with what Newton predicted, but on the whole, Newton’s theories were tested again and again, and they usually passed. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z “You misjudge those who honor you. They do not think you can predict the future or save them from catastrophe. They honor you because you are the Storyteller.” When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z It was as though I was continuously reacting to the threat of some natural force whose hostile behavior could not be predicted. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z With a little luck and some hard work, he predicted, Sasha might be able to hold down a low-level job doing data processing. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z Everybody’s going ape because who could have predicted that you need paper to make a paper chain? Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z Rush had predicted that the two patriarchs would reconcile, then go to their graves at nearly the same time.” Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z It is a very readable and entertaining book, which predicts a certain Southern victory. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Gen. Gage issues passes for those who wish to leave, but many more are fleeing without, as we all predict bombardment and flame. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z It is possible to predict radio bursts from Jupiter with better reliability than weather forecasts on Earth, by computing the position of Io. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z General relativity predicts that heavy objects that are moving will cause the emission of gravitational waves, ripples in the curvature of space that travel at the speed of light. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z I learn to predict what he might do. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z By the mid-2000s, he predicted, their numbers would double or even triple, unleashing a tidal wave of violence across the nation. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z “I think there are one or two inputs that matter the most. Figure those out and you’ve figured out the person. You can predict anything about them.” Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z He predicted a battle lasting two days at most, with few if any marine casualties. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z The zit, miraculously, just as Anastasia predicted, seems to be gone. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z Barometers would be set to dry and fair and isobars would be far apart, just as I’d predicted yesterday. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z They observed how timbre is recognized at the mammalian primary auditory cortex to predict human sound source recognition. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z The tidal current carried him gently east, just as he’d predicted. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z Likewise you could predict the percentage of years in which there would be no desert rainstorms, one such storm, two storms, three, and so on. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Suicide can’t be predicted specifically, but the death itself is still foreseen. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z Almost from the start, when Cleofes was but a child, everybody had predicted a bad end for him. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z He could predict business to go through the roof. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z I could have told you this at the height of his reputation, just as I could have predicted his downfall after a few short years in the limelight. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z Like she predicted, Emily is wearing something a lot fancier than most people. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z And just as Pop Pop predicts, this is the year black women make history at the Miss America pageant. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z About how her dream had predicted his death. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z He's very hard to predict, which might be interesting under different circumstances, but at the moment only provides an extra obstacle. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z Of all the ways today could’ve gone, I couldn’t have predicted this. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z One of you just happens to have a vision predicting the disappearance of France’s greatest treasure. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z Sure enough—just as Kate had predicted—an Executive was on patrol. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z Although none of the journalists anticipated violence, several had predicted shouted abuse. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z You’ll see how fast she loses interest in making furniture move across the room and predicting disasters!” The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The reason we say that humans have free will is because we can’t predict what they will do. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z By looking at the collective motion of groups of atoms, physicists could predict the way matter behaves. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Just as I had predicted, our tip consisted of a toothy smile and the ridiculous suggestion that we have a nice evening. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z The problem for the Aristotelians was that they could not fashion an explanation that would successfully predict the outcome of the Puy-de-Dôme experiment. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Sex differences in the factors which predict musical attainment in school aged students. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z It was going on and on and making the country watch and comment and predict and scratch their heads—as far as I could see. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z This time it didn’t hurt so much, just as Shorty had predicted. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z “It’s going to land behind the mountain,” Billy predicted, and he was right. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z “Well, that’s hard to predict,” Inigo said, “since the first thing we have to do is storm the castle, and you never can be really sure how those things work out.” The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z Although their marriage was predicted from the time they had come into the world, when they expressed their desire to be married their own relatives tried to stop it. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z In 1930 he predicted the existence of the positron, a positively charged electron. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z His cries for help had traveled through the trees and landed on the Bull’s waxy ears, just like he’d predicted. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z And it wasn’t even as though Madame did anything other than what we predicted she’d do: she just froze and waited for us to pass by. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z We cannot, at the moment at least, predict the values of these numbers from theory—we have to find them by observation. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Just as the prophecy had predicted, the Powhatan empire was destroyed by a new tribe that arrived from the Chesapeake Bay. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z Bitter had completed the figure in the middle, but it was nothing like what the softness of the ragas would have predicted. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z It rained three days that week; and just as he had predicted, they made much more money on those days than they had before. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z The nanny found them later, and the trouble she had predicted began. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z He predicted GPS navigation devices for cars before anybody else, too. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z So general relativity predicts that light should be bent by gravitational fields. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Raleigh promised that he would get Zeitoun released, but given the state of the courts—there were none to speak of—he could not predict or guarantee a timeline. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z They were "seeing" the first photons–the most ancient light in the universe– though time and distance had converted them to microwaves, just as Gamow had predicted. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Analysts and players alike predicted that Fischer would win the Candidates, but not without a struggle. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z The ice cream business is a flop just as Dede predicted privately to me some time back. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Just as the Candidate had predicted, the Socialists, in alliance with the other parties of the left, won the Presidential election. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z They both had thin smiles on their faces and they both looked painfully uncomfortable, as if they were embarking on a strange and potentially explosive experiment for which there were no predicted results. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z The no boundary proposal for the universe predicts the existence of a well-defined thermodynamic arrow of time because the universe must start off in a smooth and ordered state. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The evidence found in Booths hotel room included the mysterious “Sam” letter that seemed to predict the assassination. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z If the damage continued at this pace, it would be worse than he had predicted. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z A few days later, after Hoover had had the bonus marchers driven from Washington at the point of bayonets, I accosted him: “What about that revolution you predicted if the bonus marchers were driven out?” Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Einstein’s general theory of relativity predicted a slightly different motion from Newton’s theory. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z July was hot, as Diana had so inelegantly predicted. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z She was used to seeing their transparent silhouettes gliding down the hallways of her parents’ house, making noise in the wardrobes and appearing in people’s dreams to predict calamities or lottery prizes. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Just as Dr. Darwin had predicted would happen, she was in agony over her husband’s lack of faith. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z They popped out of a hole just where Hazel had predicted. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z By making careful measurements of how much radiation came off objects at various temperatures, they showed that the Rayleigh-Jeans formula was, indeed, failing to predict the true amount of light that comes from objects. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z “Everyone wants to be able to predict the future,” I say. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z How could I ever have predicted the circumstances of this moment—this particular night, this particular place, this particular boy. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z Boe’s point is that we could predict precisely the order in which every country would finish in the Math Olympics without asking a single math question. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z But it could not be called a city, for it was, as the dragon had predicted, destroyed. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z As might have been predicted, it did not recognize Cleopatra. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z It had taken Joseph Stalin’s physicists just four years to reach nuclear parity with the United States—about the time frame predicted by Robert Oppenheimer. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z “No, I'm writing a mathematical formula that predicts which of two people will end a romantic relationship and when,” he said. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z King George sending a fully armed battalion to remind the colonists of his love as Enchantress Eva predicts tragedy for a ragtag group of wizards. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z Ptolemy’s model provided a reasonably accurate system for predicting the positions of heavenly bodies in the sky. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Talk about a sentence you could never predict you would say. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z “Dude, think about it. If you could make your Theorem work, you could predict how it would go.” An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z She’d predicted the sex of my brother and of all the babies of her friends at church. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Inevitably a new system of racialized social control will emerge—one that we cannot foresee, just as the current system of mass incarceration was not predicted by anyone thirty years ago. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z “I liked them. She figured it out. I’ve been sketched demographically. They can still predict things I like.” Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z There was no way a batter could predict which way that ball was going to break. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z Vincent’s mental health, as he himself had predicted, is unpredictable, volatile. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z As predicted, it swooped through the decimated doorway without knocking so much as a sliver of stone from the medieval walls. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z This is an astonishing development, especially given that as recently as the mid-1970s, the most well-respected criminologists were predicting that the prison system would soon fade away. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z He had gotten good at predicting what people would do, how they would react, and when he couldn’t predict their behavior, he knew how to provoke it instead. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z So it predicted that the red shift of a galaxy should be directly proportional to its distance from us, exactly as Hubble found. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z There is just no predicting what kind of sentences you might say, thought Flora. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z The particulars change each time, just enough that I can’t predict the outcome of the dream. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z His table predicted, with pleasing accuracy, where new elements would slot in when they were found. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z As she had predicted, I did not ask her to the Ocotillo Ball. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z But what made the story remarkable, since it was written in 1932, was that it predicted the widespread use of burning jellied gasoline on human beings. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Yet Con believed the Queen was asking them to undertake a suicide mission, though Kaede argued that he couldn’t predict the outcome. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z “Well, the real test is whether it can predict the arc of a relationship,” Colin acknowledged. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z Dr. Morales had been right when he predicted that Mount St. Helens would erupt with terrible violence. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z Her nurse- slave carried an umbrella when my mother predicted rain and a parasol when she predicted sun. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z She was able to predict the moment the sun would peep above the horizon, and the instant the land would fade into night. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z “It’s kind of overlapping with my mom’s work. She predicted that the great whites would start heading north.” The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z Maxwell’s equations predicted that there could be wavelike disturbances in the combined electromagnetic field, and that these would travel at a fixed speed, like ripples on a pond. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Users with less expertise were more accurate in predicting the learning curves, though their guess, too, fell short: they predicted twenty minutes. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z As Royal Brougham had predicted back in June, rumors of his demise had proved premature, much to the relief of Joe and the other boys. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z I saw in those early months how, just as I’d predicted, politics would be a fight, and the fight would be wearying, involving standoffs and betrayals, dirty-deal makers and compromises that sometimes felt painful. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z In other words, the very factors that drove millions of American women to have an abortion also seemed to predict that their children, had they been born, would have led unhappy and possibly criminal lives. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z Tuesday evening, October 12 As I predicted, there is not much time to write in your pages, diary. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z But now the two Syrians had been separated from the Americans, and there was no predicting where this would go. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z When one has such a dream and the predicted event hap pens, it’s hard not to believe in precognition. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z If he predicted that I would like numbers someday, I would be open to the idea. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z The next morning, as predicted, his fever was lower, his breathing grew easier, and his heartbeat slowed down; still, that day he slept seven hours out of each eight. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z The thunder rumbled on, but we stayed dry, as Alice had predicted. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z By midafternoon, just as Nin had predicted, sheets of water began pouring over the rain forest, dripping from the canopy until everything was wet through. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z As usual, Min’s work took far longer than he had predicted, and summer was merging with fall before the pieces were ready. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z But it was still hard to predict the success or failure of the new Rolls Royce dealership. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z She predicted that the Republican leaders “will...take ultimately a station in the public’s estimation like that of the Tories in our Revolution.” Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z In fact, she wrote a song for each of us kids with lyrics predicting a happy fate. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z And just like the clashing sounds were strangely relaxing, I never would’ve predicted my going back to this house. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z The theory predicted that light reaching the Earth from distant stars would be bent by the gravitational field of the sun to a much greater degree than was predicted by classical Newtonian physics. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z In fact, the orbits of the planets predicted by general relativity are almost exactly the same as those predicted by the Newtonian theory of gravity. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z When the proslavery advocates of the Deep South unveiled their racial argument—What will happen between the races after emancipation?—the census of 1790 allowed one to predict the response with near precision. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z The view spins onto Stella, a big smile on her face, her teeth as white and even as I predicted. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z He believes that dreams predict the future, if we know how to interpret them. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Under such conditions all the laws of science, and therefore all ability to predict the future, would break down. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z As predicted, Cleopatra’s overpowering personality, incalculable wealth, and persuasive speech put Mai Antony’s fears to rest and captured his heart. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z A weather detective is somebody who uses observations and measurements to make theories, and if the theories are right, they will correctly predict weather patterns. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z That change predicts a “boost in sustained attention and preservation of multitasking improvement six months later.” A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z The experimenters found, though, that the infants did not respond as predicted to the appearance of the ball, but instead did not look significantly longer than they did when the objects were not swapped. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z As the staggered lines rushed past him, he thought about the space between what we remember and what happened, the space between what we predict and what will happen. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z To detect the predicted solar neutrino flux, you need an immense amount of chlorine, so American physicists have poured a huge quantity of cleaning fluid into the Homestake Mine in Lead, South Dakota. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Lawrence predicted that each Alpha would be capable of producing 300 grams of enriched uranium a month. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z As the first game progressed, most experts began predicting a draw. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z If you made careful observations of the stars and recorded them over many years, you could predict the seasons. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z With the advent of quantum mechanics, we have come to recognize that events cannot be predicted with complete accuracy but that there is always a degree of uncertainty. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Ginny and Armpit looked at them every day for the next week and a half and tried to predict where Kaira was. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z Professor Rolf Eliassen of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology testified before a congressional committee to the impossibility of predicting the composite effect of these chemicals, or of identifying the organic matter resulting from the mixture. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Meanwhile, who did the best job in predicting what the Japanese were up to in the summer and fall of 1941? Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z As Grandpa had predicted, the price of coonskins jumped sky-high. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Four years later the soil still contained heptachlor, and scientists were unable to predict how long it would remain poisonous, or to recommend any procedure for correcting the condition. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The path of vitiligo is impossible to predict and occurs differently in every patient. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z It can be measured with some success by means of tests that permit us to predict future performance. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z They had not predicted the comet, and they had not explained it. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The GUTs also predict that at this energy the different spin-'/2 matter particles, like quarks and electrons, would also all be essentially the same, thus achieving another unification. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z In the 1970s, no educationist would have predicted the explosion in universal written communication caused by the personal computer, the internet and the key-pad of the mobile phone. Eats, Shoots & Leaves 2003-11-06T00:00:00Z They were more accurate at measuring conscientiousness, and they were much more accurate at predicting both the students’ emotional stability and their openness to new experiences. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z In late March of 1862, coffee had reached the unheard of price of seventy cents a pound, and the papers predicted that it would rise even higher. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z What they found, surprisingly, was that the one factor above all else that predicted helping behavior was how many witnesses there were to the event. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z If you can't name the scale notes in a key, you may find it difficult to predict whether a chord should be based on a sharp, flat, or natural note. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z As predicted, it took twelve hours to charge the batteries to full. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z When the patient doesn’t react in the predicted way, but in a very different manner, the analyst may attribute the opposite behavior to “reaction-formation.” Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z These students performed substantially better than they did in their old academic settings and graduated at a much higher rate than their past performance would have predicted. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z Jacobs was forever predicting the imminent collapse of the United States government. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Then we took our average number and used it to predict the soccer field total by figuring out how many of our squares could fit inside the field. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z The rain stopped, exactly as predicted, and ushers ran outside and pulled plastic covers off four hundred chairs on the lawn. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z And just as she predicted, Briony had been outside somewhere, sulking and impossible to find. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z The results were as compelling as the cheating algorithm had predicted. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z “I would certainly not presume to predict anything quite as far-fetched as that?” Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z “This ball of liberty, I believe most piously, he predicted, “is now so well in motion that it will roll around the globe. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Darwin, as his mentors had predicted, proved to be an excellent collector and observer of specimens. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Yet, although Venus is sometimes brighter and sometimes less bright in the sky, it was difficult to see the variation that either theory must predict. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The seismology section had a million probes down here, with a ninety-nine point eight success rate at predicting the magma flares. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z The convention was deadlocked between the two leading candidates, so, Daugherty predicted, the delegates would be forced to look for an alternative. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z Like most ancient peoples, the Greeks were stargazers, and the Babylonians were the first masters of astronomy: they had learned how to predict eclipses. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z As the Augur predicted, the back door to the house's basement is unlocked. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z One could never predict what they would do next. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z After I spent over a year in a coma, how could they have predicted exactly when I would wake up and then move to California precisely at that time? The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z Who could predict what mood the Warlord was in? Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z Auk XXV peaked out at the predicted fifteen thousand feet, neatly falling downrange, landing with a solid thunk near the end of the slack. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z However, it did not resolve the crucial question: Does general relativity predict that our universe should have had a big bang, a beginning of time? A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z “Before the battle happened, a Cheyenne holy man predicted a victory in a battle against one hundred men. He said the warriors were holding ‘one hundred in the hands.’ In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z But it isn’t easy to predict that if you mix them together, you get green. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z For several hundred years commentators on the English language have been predicting, lamenting, or celebrating the imminent extinction of the subjunctive mood. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z By the time the adopted children became adults, they had veered sharply from the destiny that IQ alone might have predicted. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z In other words, how good is Mary at predicting what she likes in a man? Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z Meteorologists were predicting furious winds, ten-foot storm surges, possibilities of levee breaches, flooding everywhere along the coast. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z But if an interstellar armada appears in our skies, I predict we will be very accommodating. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Professor Trelawney kept predicting Harry’s death, which he found extremely annoying. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z Maybe we can’t predict everything, but we can predict some things. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z Their existence had been predicted in 1934 by Japanese physicist Hideki Yukawa, who speculated that they carried the force that binds the atomic nucleus together, counteracting the mutual electromagnetic repulsion of its positively charged protons. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The amount of iridium in the Alvarez sample was more than three hundred times normal levels–far beyond anything they might have predicted. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z As I show in my report, these and other physical and mental deterioration syndromes can be predicted with statistically significant results by the application of my new formula. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z “After all those years of predicting things, you turn out to be the one who almost threw Levy Pants down the drain.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The uncertainty principle also predicts that there will be similar virtual pairs of matter particles, such as electrons or quarks. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z “All I want you to do is keep away from me, now and always ...” “You’ll end on the gallows,” he predicted. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z None of us predicted what came to pass there. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z This sweater, pale yellow, with a floral wreath at the neck, told Luce that I refuted nature in just the way his theory predicted. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z He obviously wasn’t a drinker, I mean a drinker in the way I’d seen real drinkers, which is to say the liquor was beginning to affect him in a manner I couldn’t predict or call. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Madame Olga predicted it would rain in Brazil; it didn’t, though. till/until. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z “With Washington gone, the revolution will collapse,” predicted the mayor. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z The temperature is steady at minus ten degrees Centigrade but the maritime office predicts it will dip even lower. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z They could neither trust nor predict what Chacko’s attitude would be. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z I can almost predict his words before he says them. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z Harry laid down his quill too, having just finished predicting his own death by decapitation. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z The Game and Fish Commission predicted that even without further pollution the pattern of the fish population of the river would be altered for years. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z He admitted that eating without fillings was “uncomfortable,” but it was better than the alternative of losing all of one’s teeth, which he predicted would happen if the fillings remained. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z If you don’t specify a predicted event precisely, there are an indeterminate number of ways for an event of that general kind to take place. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z You cannot use just the genotype—BRCA1 mutation—to predict the final outcome with certainty. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z “Look there! A strong hand, tightly clenched. No one could have predicted an uprising like this.” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z This was the best kind of snow day, too, where the weather channel predicts a huge snowstorm, but it doesn’t end up snowing that much, and you can still do stuff. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z This is longer than the lifetime predicted by the simplest grand unified theory, but there are more elaborate theories in which the predicted lifetimes are longer. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z He predicted that the painting family would soon produce a number of landscapes. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z What Ptolemy had managed to achieve was a system that accurately predicted movements in the heavens. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z By next year, maybe by the end of this year, he predicted, it would all be over. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z The same thing was going to happen when the army left this time, he predicted. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z Maxwell’s theory predicted that radio or light waves should travel at a certain fixed speed. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z “Are you going to use it to predict the future?” An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z “Development you predicted in Kassner Case has come unexpectedly please return immediately.” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z Sip, he says, and don’t waste strength moving around because it’s impossible to predict how much longer we will befloating. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z But clever as she was, even Penelope was often unable to predict what would set them off. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z In 585 BC he was said to have predicted a solar eclipse. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Around the Institute, they say that you can’t predict who will panic inside a biological space suit. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z This year he predicts our lives will twist inside out. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z If it were right, however, the model would also accurately predict the relative intensities of the various X-ray reflections. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z She needed this walk home to be one she could predict so that she could get there safely. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z All day long, and the following days too, I squirmed while rumors spread like head lice and the Daniels predicted my downfall. Ungifted 2012-08-21T00:00:00Z But Paul Van Riper did not behave as the computers predicted. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z While I was trying to think up an excuse to leave, Dad leaned forward and predicted, “Dwight David Eisenhower will be the last good president this country will have for a very, very long time.” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z While they try to predict what dishes will be served, I keep seeing the old man’s head being blown off. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z This combination made them interesting to know, but you could never predict what they would do or say. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z Clavius was wrong—there are no eccentrics and epicycles—but he was right to claim that he could predict the future movements of the heavenly bodies with a high degree of reliability. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z He was, as the FBI had predicted, armed and dangerous. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z It is easy to predict where the relative minor of a major key can be found. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z But if there had been any paleontologists living 67 million years ago, they could not have predicted the dinosaurs’ imminent demise, because asteroids belong to a field of science otherwise remote from dinosaur biology. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “Of course not,” she said, startled, as words came out of her mouth that she could not predict from minute to minute. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z In order to predict the future position and velocity of a particle, one has to be able to measure its present position and velocity accurately. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z At a quarter of a mile down the river, it looked as if the Orange of Syracuse would, as predicted, settle into the lead. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z If her guess about these universes was right, and they were the multiple worlds predicted by quantum theory, then some of them would have split off from her own much earlier than others. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z He looks at their faces as if he can predict what will become of them, and in one sense he can, since teachers write thorough notations in their students' Party record books. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z Elizabeth Cady Stanton had predicted that the next generation of suffragists would not display “the infinite patience we have for a half a century.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z It is said that he predicted a solar eclipse. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z My ribs looked like a weather map predicting a winter storm, but I’ll count it a worthy sacrifice if Charlie never drives drunk again. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z Most doctors had predicted the fever would end when the cold weather returned. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z Apart from girls, Nicolas’s primary interest in that period of his life was to cultivate Clara’s capacity for predicting the future. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z He calls me Wild Child because I’m always running around barefoot feeling the earth under my feet and predicting rain. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z “Law, Minny, that is too risky. Nobody can predict what that woman gone do.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z Bigwig, as he had predicted, was getting his head bitten off. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z In effect, we have redefined the task of science to be the discovery of laws that will enable us to predict events up to the limits set by the uncertainty principle. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The trouble with this was that the laws of mechanics and electricity, before quantum mechanics, predicted that the electrons would lose energy and so spiral inward until they collided with the nucleus. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Mrs. Grayson, as they had predicted, was in the doorway waiting for them as they arrived. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z The two calendars drifted with respect to each other, making it very difficult to predict when a holiday was due. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Predicting what Kat is going to do next makes predicting the weather seem easier than counting to three. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z Leaving separately, they had attracted little attention, and the gates had been easy to exit, just as Haiyi had predicted. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z There was no way to have predicted it ahead of time. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z “And some members of Parliament would fuss like wet hens. No, I predict a cold winter will dispatch most of them in a natural way.” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z Instead, it predicts a number of different possible outcomes and tells us how likely each of these is. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Further, the sun, the moon, and the planets followed precise paths across the sky that could be predicted in advance with considerable accuracy. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z With my death, he predicts a turning of the tide in the war, since the demoralized rebels have no one left to follow. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z One issue outlined horrific prophecies, graphically illustrated, of what Armstrong predicted would be World War III, when the United States and Great Britain would be destroyed by a United States of Europe. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z He remained convinced that romantic behavior was basically monotonous and predictable, and that therefore one could write a fairly straightforward formula that would predict the collision course of any two people. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z Einstein’s equations also predicted something much more sinister: the black hole, a star so dense that nothing can escape its grasp, not even light. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z The thinking is simple: science is very good at explaining what happens and predicting what is going to happen. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z He sounded like a weatherman when he’s predicting a really bad storm. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z Nevertheless, he predicts we’ll have to stay here until the end of ’43. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z However, I and several other people showed that, at least in its original form, it predicted much greater variations in the temperature of the microwave background radiation than are observed. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Taking pride in her ability to predict its movements. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z “Now we just have to predict what the first level will be like.” Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z “It appeared that Bill Hale’s lawyers—just as his friends predicted—had clipped the government’s tail feathers good,” one writer observed. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z At the time, no one could have predicted the fate of Jews like the Lewyn family. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z I knew myself well enough that I could predict the choked words and teary explanation that would follow. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z Optimistic ranchers were predicting an “open winter”—a season so bland that cattle could graze during the whole of it. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z It was a miraculous find, and what made it all the more striking was that the observations on which Lowell had predicted the existence of a planet beyond Neptune proved to be comprehensively erroneous. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z “Camp Half-Blood is sending a quest, as you predicted. Our side of the bargain is almost complete.” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z This might have been predicted because of the black record of these poisons in other places. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z “How you able to predict cows like that?” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Just as I predicted, the yellow paint is so loud, you can’t miss it. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z At this singularity the laws of science and our ability to predict the future would break down. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Just as she predicted, most people gave them stuff and refused to take any money, which was just as well, since they only had nineteen cents between them. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z Within the police department itself, white officers started a pool to see who could come closest to predicting the date on which the black leader would be killed. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z This was the first indication that quantum mechanics might remove the singularities that were predicted by general relativity. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z She entered, transformed as her guardian had predicted. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z For example, the theory predicts that the light cones of points near the sun would be slightly bent inward, on account of the mass of the sun. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z “If the alternatives are jail or a pierced Adam’s apple, I shall happily push one of your carts. Though I can’t predict how far I’ll go.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The more accurately you knew the position and movements of the Sun and Moon and stars, the more reliably you could predict when to hunt, when to sow and reap, when to gather the tribes. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The three teammates seemed unconcerned by the reports of Ian’s reprehensible behavior and rumors predicting their expedition’s imminent disintegration. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z As Dad had predicted, Anne’s friend drove up to the house in an ancient Model T, with writing on it. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z The clumps, runs, and patterns that random sequences evince can to an extent be predicted. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z I have no business plotting or predicting anything for this girl. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z A Government spokesman predicted a poor planting season because of all the rain. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z One week before the impact, Nature ran an article, "The Big Fizzle Is Coming," predicting that the impact would constitute nothing more than a meteor shower. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z The goal of previous astronomers had been to construct mathematical models that would successfully predict the location of the planets in the heavens. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z A new thing coming that you couldn’t predict until it was upon you. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z But none of those involved with the group at that early stage could have predicted how far Fuller would push that mandate. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z When I finally heard the word, I kept checking for the predicted snow, but it never came. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z I could already predict Dr. Golan’s explanation: That house is such an emotionally loaded place for you, just being inside was enough to trigger a stress reaction. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z This force has actually been detected and has the predicted value. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z At the time they were first predicted, there was no way that neutron stars could be observed. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Actually, Carson had predicted that the campaign would fail even if the spraying continued as mosquito-control experts wanted. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z Who would have predicted the larger ones to follow? Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z He doubted anyone had ever even imagined that a single formula could predict the rise and fall of romances universally. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z But when Napoleon overturned the French Republic and declared himself omnipotent military dictator, again just as Adams had predicted would happen, Jefferson quickly shifted his position to accommodate the new reality. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z He predicted the date of the end of the world, and the whole county moved bleating in on him. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z To his great relief, Galton found that his law could accurately predict the coat colors of every generation. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Though it was often predicted in later years that he was on the point of taking the job, however, he never had Ministerial ambitions. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z If there hadn’t been a trial yet, there would be, and Matthias could easily predict the outcome. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Pilar has this book, a Chinese oracle, that predicts the future. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z “What’s happening, in essence, is that you’re constantly scanning your texts and email because every once in a while you are going to get a good one and you can’t predict when that is. “ A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z If you look into your hearts, I know that you will, as I predicted in November, come to agree with me. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z There is no way of predicting what the future will be like for an institution such as the MBL. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Through the chariot I could practically sense the cats' thoughts and predict their reactions as they prowled along. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z The cells can do more than predict reality; they are evidently programmed with wild guesses as well. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z There was no predicting where the fire would go, but it was certain that nothing could stop its course. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z The experimenters predicted that the infants would look longer at the ball if it had been swapped with another object than if it had been there all along. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z When predicting this utopia, he would eventually reach a point where words failed him. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z Tell me about this one, Joon said and pointed to a line on his palm, the one that predicted he would live to be an old, successful man with many children. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z If they found that they were, in fact, as compatible as their parents predicted? When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z As it turned out, their relatives had correctly predicted their fate: their age gap would lead to long-term problems in their marriage. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z At the end of the 1950s, when the American space program looked as uncoordinated and spindly as a foal, predicting that the United States would best the Soviets might have seemed like a fool’s bet. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z But even then, the men can often predict where the chimps are going and so catch up with them later. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z But Herbert Hoover had come in spouting equal optimism, buoyantly predicting that a day would soon come when poverty would be washed out of American life forever. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z “As I recall, I once predicted you would turn out to be as selfish as all the other human heroes. Well, here is your chance to prove me wrong.” The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z As Dr. Darwin had predicted, the voyage did not prepare him for a life as a vicar. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z If he analyzes an hour of a husband and wife talking, he can predict with 95 percent accuracy whether that couple will still be married fifteen years later. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z Cob predicted a third levy tax after the harvests were in. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z He would read about Japan’s losses during those final weeks of the Pacific war and claim he had predicted it. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z “This is not the fault of the Mission League. No one could have predicted the move to independence would come so suddenly.” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z He acknowledged that there was no way we could predict how exactly we’d manage things, given that neither of us wanted to be locked into the comfortable predictability of a lawyer’s life. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Adding a G sharp does raise the fourth degree of the scale by one half step, just as predicted in step 2. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z First in May 1920, and then again two months later, he boldly and unequivocally predicted that a serious Communist revolt was about to take place throughout the country. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z But she does not predict when earthquakes will come, or how the stock market will do. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z It wouldn’t last long, my father predicted, maybe a few days. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z Galileo had to cast two horoscopes, work out which seemed better to fit the life of Ferdinand so far, thus decide his date of birth and so predict his future. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z My parents had decided four days off school for predicting the death of a close friend was enough, and after we ate, they drove me to Jefferson. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z This time around, the observers’ ratings predicted with better than 80 percent accuracy which marriages were going to make it. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z Just as Hazel had predicted, it slanted down, then leveled out and went south. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z It tells you what to measure and enables you to predict, but it provides no answer to the question ‘Why?’ The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The two scientists were studying the forces between atoms when they realized that their measurements didn’t match the forces that had been predicted. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z It was our highest rocket yet, but it wasn’t what my nozzle design had predicted. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z “I mean, we can predict a certain amount based on what we know,” Freddie continued. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z “There are engineers and there are engineers. I wouldn’t presume to predict. But I should tell you. A favor, believe me. Nothing you don’t realize yourself.” Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z Each of these partial theories describes and predicts a certain limited class of observations, neglecting the effects of other quantities, or representing them by simple sets of numbers. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z As Mom had predicted, one day in early winter Dad stood outside the tipple and called out the names of men to be cut off. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z As predicted, there was an impressive crowd for the event. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z At the singularity, general relativity and all other physical laws would break down: one couldn’t predict what would come out of the singularity. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z As the sergeant had predicted, they weren’t exactly overjoyed to see him. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z During the argument, the Court was feisty, and it was impossible to predict what the justices were going to do. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Nor do the black-white audit studies predict what might have happened in a job interview. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z The fun would be all lost if somehow Francis could correctly predict what he was going to find. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z In order to predict how the universe should have started off, one needs laws that hold at the beginning of time. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z “I knew it could ruin everything. I was terrified of exactly this. But how could I have predicted? How?” Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z One could predict the approximate number of times that the result would be A or B, but one could not predict the specific result of an individual measurement. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z It was never established whether it had really caused the death of the birds, but the newly married women did not bear the predicted monsters, nor did the intensity of the heat decrease. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z If an experiment turns out precisely as predicted, this can be very nice, but it is only a great event if at the same time it is a surprise. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z But the thing was, there was no predicting with Miss Emily. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z After all of his months of antics, after the weighing-in act that Cassius had put on, this calmness should have tipped off some of the sports writers who were predicting Clay’s slaughter. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z There was no predicting what they would be, and each manifested in its own time, in its own way. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Yet we have certainly not reduced these subjects to the status of solved problems: we have, as yet, had little success in predicting human behavior from mathematical equations! A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z What this means in practice is that you can never predict where an electron will be at any given moment. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z “There’s no way to predict what will happen to us.” Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z “It’ll take at least three rockets loaded in this manner,” he predicted, “before we get the right combination.” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Every moment feels rehearsed because as things between us progressed, I spent more and more energy trying to predict what he might do next. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z A reporter predicted that Louie’s record would stand for twenty years. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z Fall sports previews had us repeat state champions and as Coach Mustilli had predicted, I was now one of the best saber fencers in the state. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z Scientists even theorize that if you could take the position, speed, trajectory, and mass of every object in the universe and feed it into a supercomputer, you could predict the future of everything. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z An extraterrestrial visiting Earth 10,000 years ago might have been forgiven for predicting that Europe would end up as a set of vassal states of a sub-Saharan African empire. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The predicted success of New Coke never materialized. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z That some nationally famous politician will undergo a sex-change operation, as a newspaper astrologer- psychic recently predicted, is considerably more likely than that New York’s Mayor Koch will. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Her grandmother had not been fearful of such signs of betrayal; she was the only person to predict, rightly, that Ashima would never change. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z As Jenner had predicted, there was a big freezer, well stocked—bread, meat, vegetables, everything—and a whole room full of shelves covered with canned food. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z It would not be long, he predicted, before Europeans would be coming to the United States for their Studienreisen. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z I can usually predict what Amá is going to say, but this time I’m not at all prepared. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z “You wait, they’ll blame the geeks,” he predicted, meaning the general “they” of the media and its alleged experts. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z As we have seen, Maxwell’s equations predicted that the speed of light should be the same whatever the speed of the source, and this has been confirmed by accurate measurements. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Until Paul and Jim’s program took firm hold, Hiatt predicted the number of total TB deaths would climb well above two million. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z And just as Mark had predicted, the Toad didn’t budge. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z He felt convinced that Aeneas was the son-in-law Faunus had predicted, and he said as much to the envoys. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z “I never knew you could predict the future,” she laughed, “but I hope you’re right.” The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z “Yellow fever,’’ he predicted, “will discourage the growth of great cities in the nation.” An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z It was therefore necessary to rewrite a paragraph of Big Brother’s speech in such a way as to make him predict the thing that had actually happened. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z Even if we do discover a complete unified theory, it would not mean that we would be able to predict events in general, for two reasons. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z As my father had predicted, the Coast Guard shut down the gambling boat right away. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z And it means that sometimes things are so complicated that it is impossible to predict what they are going to do next, but they are only obeying really simple rules. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z I stretch, looking up at the pale-gray sky, the predicted snowflakes finally drifting slowly through the air and landing on my cheeks and hair. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z In 16,000 of these letters he predicts the index will rise, and in the other 16,000 he predicts a decline. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The crucial dispute between Cartesians and Newtonians was over the shape of the Earth: Newton predicted an oblate ellipsoid, or flattened, Earth, while the Cartesians had predicted a prolate ellipsoid, or egg-shaped, Earth. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z For once, he hadn’t predicted my response, hadn’t pulled me under his sway. 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