| "The most pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight but no vision." |
| Helen Keller |
| "The empires of the future are the empires of the mind." |
| Winston Churchill |
| "Most scientists are stupid — because they don't see the future!" |
| James D. Watson, Nobel Laureate |
| "It is surely one of scientists' roles to look unflinchingly at feasible extrapolations of current knowledge." |
| Philip Campbell, Editor of the scientific journal Nature |
| "The future is one area of time that we can do something about. The past is finished." |
| World Future Society |