Quotes About Certainty

There are no creeds in mathematics.

We must not build on the sands of an uncertain and everchanging science...but upon the rock of inspired Scriptures.

Art is made to trouble but science reassures.

Inquiry is fatal to certainty.

The doubter is a true man of science: he doubts only himself and his interpretations, but he believes in science.

Experience alone can decide on truth.

One of the nice things about math and science is it's obvious, you get the answer or you don't get the answer.

I don't believe in mathematics.

It is said to await certainty is to await eternity.

I have taken the stand that nobody can be always wrong, but it does seem to me that I have approximated so highly that I am nothing short of a negative genius.

Every science in a certain degree starts from faith, and, on the contrary, faith, which does not lead to science, is mistaken faith or superstition, but real, genuine faith it is not.

You don't use science to show you're right, you use science to become right.

Certainty is the most vivid condition of ignorance and the most necessay condition for knowledge.

but, in reality, there is no such thing as an exact science.

Our duty is to believe that for which we have sufficient evidence, and to suspend our judgment when we have not.

Criticism, though dignified from the earliest ages by the labours of men eminent for knowledge and sagacity, has not yet attained the certainty and stability of science.

A very great deal more truth can become known than can be proven.

What is is what must be.

I should consider that I know nothing about physics if I were able to explain only how things might be, and were unable to demonstrate that they could not be otherwise.

If a conclusion is not poetically balanced, it cannot be scientifically true.

While nothing is more uncertain than a single life, nothing is more certain than the average duration of a thousand lives.

And for mathematical science, he that doubts their certainty hath need of a dose of hellebore.

Because of their very nature, science and logical thinking can never decide what is possible or impossible. Their only function is to explain what has been ascertained by experience and observation.

Science makes no pretension to eternal truth or absolute truth.