Quotes About Doubt

But God does not listen to such entreaty; rather, instead of consolation he sends boredom, and instead of light, darkness. Right there, halfway along our road, we don't know whether we are going backwards or forwards.

Genius hesitates.

The very foundation of science is to keep the door open to doubt.

To the very last, the desire to challenge oneself and understand more. And to the very last: doubt.

La precariedad de la verdad no implica que no podamos ponernos de acuerdo.

Genuis hesitates

Quando Einstein muore, Bohr, il suo grandissimo rivale, ha parole di commovente ammirazione. Quando pochi anni dopo muore Bohr, qualcuno prende una fotografia della lavagna nel suo studio: c'è un disegno. Rappresenta la «scatola piena di luce» dell'esperimento mentale di Einstein. Fino all'ultimo, la voglia di confrontarsi e capire di più. Fino all'ultimo, il dubbio.

Lo que nos hace avanzar es la duda y no la certeza.

I may not know something with certainty, but I can still assign a lesser or greater degree of probability to something.

To the very last, the desire to debate, to understand more. To the very last, doubt. This permanent doubt, the deep source of science.

Por un lado se tiene la certeza de conocer la verdad. Por otro está el reconocimiento de nuestra ignorancia y la duda perpetua de toda certeza. La religión, especialmente el monoteísmo, encuentra una profunda dificultad de aceptar el pensamiento del cambio, el pensamiento crítico. Eva recogió la manzana para llegar a saber. Pero ante el dios que quiere ser el Dios Único e indiscutible fue el primero de los pecados.

When Einstein died, his greatest rival, Bohr, found for him words of moving admiration. When a few years later Bohr in turn died, someone took a photograph of the blackboard in his study. There's a drawing on it. A drawing of the "light-filled box" in Einstein's thought experiment. To the very last, the desire to challenge oneself and understand more. And to the very last: doubt.

The heroes of all myths face doubts. They feel that they have a calling but they do not know whether they can live up to their destinies. The drama of the psychological birth of the hero is facing fear, doubt, and hesitation; knowing that reaching for the stars entails the risk of failure, ridicule, even injury or death; and knowing that by not trying, you forfeit the possibility of greatness.

The truth is, I was afraid the day I walked into Stanford. And I was afraid the day I walked out.

I drink the darkness of disbelief.

When anything bad happens, my insecurities come flooding out.

Si alguno de vosotros empieza ya a entrever que este libro es una engañifa y que a ninguna parte va a llevar su lectura, que lo deje ahora mismo y que se vaya al diablo.

Caught between fear and doubt, we contend with Fate and resist it, fearing that without renewed effort, or a change of course to find an easier way, we will be stuck in the losing position.

I would not have been able to articulate it at that time, but I had begun a painful journey toward an impossible goal, a journey that lasted a long time: how to love a God who hurts you.

At times there's a razor-thin line between truth and insanity.

You can almost believe what you know is not true when you really have to.

Recuerda que en la mentalidad fija el esfuerzo no es causa de orgullo, sino algo que proyecta dudas sobre tu talento.

Blue skies can be misleading.

Nothing is certain, but if nothing is certain, how can we be certain that nothing is certain?