Failed Prediction Quotes

“I'm convinced that before the year 2000 is over, the first child will have been born on the moon.”
― Wernher Von Braun

“I recollect once of having heard a gentleman from one of the northern States, of great power and ability, announce in the House of Representatives, with imposing effect, that we of the South would be compelled, ultimately, to yield upon this subject of slavery, that it was as impossible to war successfully against a principle in politics, as it was in physics or mechanics. That the principle would ultimately prevail. That we, in maintaining slavery as it exists with us, were warring against a principle, a principle founded in nature, the principle of the equality of men. The reply I made to him was, that upon his own grounds, we should, ultimately, succeed, and that he and his associates, in this crusade against our institutions, would ultimately fail. The truth announced, that it was as impossible to war successfully against a principle in politics as it was in physics and mechanics, I admitted; but told him that it was he, and those acting with him, who were warring against a principle. They were attempting to make things equal which the Creator had made unequal.”
― Alexander H. Stephens

“[Stated in 1965:] Machines will be capable, within 20 years, of doing any work a man can do.”
― Herbert Simon

“Revelation 16:16 calls it the "war of the great day of God the Almighty," Armageddon. This war will come in the twentieth century. It will come right on schedule, as have the wars, food shortages, earthquakes and other events foretold. This generation will see its fulfillment.”
― Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society, The 20th Century in Bible Prophecy

“But now in our 20th century, we have come to the time for harvest, "a conclusion of a system of things, and the reapers are angels"!”
― Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society, Let your Kingdom Come

“For one thing, the end of six thousand years of human existence on earth and the beginning of mankind's seventh millennium of existence may come many years sooner than the year 2000 C.E. It is well that this is so. Today, with the world of mankind in such a deplorable condition and being threatened with destruction from so many angles, there are many students and investigators of these threats to human existence who express substantial doubts that mankind will be able to survive till the year 2000 C.E.”
― Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society, God's Kingdom of a Thousand Years Has Approached