More famous predictions
Here:
http://www.av8n.com/physics/ex-cathedra.htm
Just a few examples:
"...so many centuries after the Creation it is unlikely that anyone could find hitherto unknown lands of any value."
- Committee advising King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain regarding a proposal by Christopher Columbus, 1486
"Space travel is utter bilge."
- Dr. Richard van der Reit Wooley, space advisor to the British government, 1956
"Space travel is bunk."
- Sir Harold Spencer Jones, Astronomer Royal, 1957