"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."

"With over 50 foreign cars already on sale here, the Japanese auto industry isn't likely to carve out a big slice of the US market."

"We can close the books on infectious diseases."

The three above predictions were made respectively by Albert Einstein in 1932, in a Business Week article in 1968, and by the US Surgeon General William H. Stewart in 1969.