For instance, physics allows you to observe and rationalise the world, but also to integrate observations into models and, sometimes, models into theories or laws that can be used to make predictions.

例如，物理学可以让你观察并理解世界，但也可以将观察到的现象整合成模型，提炼出理论或定律用以对未来做出预测。

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I am very reluctant to make predictions.

我不愿意做一个预言家。

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I would love to make predictions that you cannot test.

我很乐意做一些你们无法测试出的预测。

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It's a very appealing kind of a priori theory, but the thing about theories is they're supposed to make predictions.

这是一个很有吸引力的早期理论，但是理论的意义在于,它们可以被用来进行预测。

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And what you might have noted is although we described how to make predictions about these properties, I didn't talk too much about what it actually means, what the ramifications of these different properties are.

而大家可能已经注意到了我们描述了,如何对这些性质进行预言，但是我并没有讲这到底有什么意义，这些不同性质的分支是什么。

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I would love to make predictions that you cannot test.

我很乐意做一些你们无法测试出的预测。

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It's been a season where you're scared even to try to make predictions.

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For example, people are naturally inclined to make predictions by extrapolating recent trends.

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Computers use the laws of physics and mathematics to make predictions based on simulations of the atmosphere that are represented on a grid.

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