Quotes About Indefiniteness

In these matters, the only certainty is that nothing is certain

The sum of such chaos was that I seemed to be reading a book that never really started and never quite finished.

we cannot rule out the

Nothing is ever certain

Ignorance gives one a large range of probabilities.

For a long while she had been oppressed by the indefiniteness which hung in her mind, like a thick summer haze, over all her desire to make her life greatly effective.

Meanwhile the indefiniteness remains, and the limits of variation are really much wider than any one would imagine from the sameness of women's coiffure and the favorite love-stories in prose and verse.

What is certain in death is somewhat softened by what is uncertain; it is an indefiniteness in the time, which holds a certain relation to the infinite, and what is called eternity.

According to the principle of indeterminism, the particles behave in a way that is defined only statistically, and within the limits of this indeterminism, they allow themselves to act in ways that are indecent or simply horrifying from the viewpoint of classic physics, because they violate the laws of behavior; but as this is happening within an interval of indefiniteness, they can never be observed in the act of breaking those laws.

Probably. Again with the probablys. A world full of probablys, she said.

But the thing about maybes is that you can get lost in them and end up going nowhere.

It would be a very big book that contained all the maybes uttered in a day.