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Timeline of Failed Predictions
- hugh3 16y agoInteresting, but a little too long. Besides, some of them aren't really failed, and some of them aren't really predictions. “There is not the slightest indication that nuclear energy will ever be obtainable. It would mean that the atom would have to be shattered at will.” – Albert Einstein, 1932. Einstein was careful with his words, and saying that there was no indication that something is possible is not the same as predicting that it's impossible. You better get secretarial work or get married.” – Emmeline Snively, advising Marilyn Monroe in 1944. Marilyn Monroe was dead by 36. Maybe she would have been better off with the secretarial work. “I see no good reasons why the views given in this volume should shock the religious sensibilities of anyone.” – Charles Darwin, The Origin Of Species, 1869. He was right. There were no good reasons.