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One thing to learn from history and it is that never discount anything and anything can happen with enough time, money, and motivation. And why not throw in prayer! Here is a list of bold claims made by some famous reputable people we can laugh at!


"The end of the world will surely come in eighteen hundred and eighty one."

    - Mother Shipton, English Prophet, c.1600


"To assert that the earth revolves around the sun is as erroneous as to claim that Jesus was not born of a virgin."

    - Cardinal Bellarmine, on Galileo's trial, 1615


"Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible."

    - Lord Kelvin


"Ours has been the first, and doubtless to be the last, to visit this profitless locality."

    - Lt. Joseph Ives after visiting the Grand Canyon in 1861.


"One day there will be a telephone in every major city in the USA."

    - Alexander Graham Bell, c.1880



"Radio has no future. Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible. X-rays will prove to be a hoax."

    - William Thomson, Lord Kelvin English Scientist, 1899



"The telephone may be appropriate for our American cousins, but not here, because we have an adequate supply of messenger boys."

    - Group of British experts, c.1900



"Well-informed people know it is impossible to transmit the voice over wires and that were it possible to do so, the thing would be of no practical value."

    - Editorial in the Boston Post, 1865


"When the Paris Exhibition closes, electric light will close with it and no more be heard of."

    - Erasmus Wilson, Professor at Oxford University, 1878


"Everything that can be invented has been invented."

    - Charles Duell, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899


"Aircraft are interesting toys, but of no military value."

    - Marshal Foch, France, 1912


"The wireless music box has no imaginable commercial value. Who would pay for a message sent to nobody in particular?"

    - Associates of David Sarnoff, manager of an early US radio network, 1920s


"Before the twentieth century closes, the earth will be purged of its foulest shame, the killing of men in battle under the name of war."

    - Andrew Carnegie


"Computers in the future may weigh no more than 1.5 tons."

    - Popular Mechanics, 1949


"Because everything in her home is waterproof, the housewife of 2000 can do her daily cleaning with a hose."

    - Popular Mechanics, 1950



"There will never be a bigger plane built."

    - A Boeing engineer, after the first flight of the 247, a twin engine plane that carried ten people.


"Liquid crystal displays can be used for the presentation of images."

    - Scientific American, 1970


"It will be years - not in my time - before a woman will become Prime Minister."

    - Margaret Thatcher, 1974


"There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home."

    - Ken Olson, Digital Equipment Corporation, 1977



Stocks have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau."

    - Irving Fisher, 1929



"I think there is a world market for maybe five computers."

    - Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943


"No one will need more than 637Kb of memory for a personal computer."

    - Bill Gates, Microsoft (early 1970's)


"Customers do not want online games."

    - Satoru Iwata, President of Nintendo, 2004


source: http://www.bold-claim.com