Quotes About Doubt

todo es tan garciamarqueciano que sospecho que él no existió...

Christianity, Judith answered, is a lie of consolation. There's no consolation for what we've already lost — all of us …

I am frightened and doubtful, and everyone who touches me must suffer.

Emma, I want to tell you something about being right: being right is much harder on a person than being wrong.

Frankly, I didn't know what station security was going to do about it, either. In fact, I'm sure station security was now shitting itself almost as hard as I metaphorically was.

I was still disoriented, and having a moment where I wondered if hey, maybe all the humans were right for once and this was a terrible idea.

That could be a good sign, right?" "Sure," I said. It was a terrible sign.

an absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.

I have a plan." This was true. "I just don't know whether it will actually work or not." This, unfortunately, was also true.

Why does it look like a person?" I said, "I ask myself that sometimes." Over the comm loudspeaker, Dr. Ratthi said, "It is a person!" In the background, I heard Overse whisper, "Ratthi, get off the comm!

Gurathin turned to him, impatient. "The log confirms it because that's what the Unit believes happened." Bharadwaj sighed. "Yet here I sit, alive.

Moon didn't find any of this very encouraging

It's not aliens, 2.0 said. I knew it wasn't aliens, I told it. It countered, We were seventy-two percent sure if wasn't aliens.

If this went wrong I was going to feel really stupid. The Targets would finally show up and be all "What the hell was it trying to do to itself?

opposed to the reality, which was that I was one whole confused entity, with no idea what I wanted to do. What I should do. What I needed to do.

But then an absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.

Humans do the "make it a question so it doesn't sound so bad" thing and it still sounds bad.

when I do manage to care, I'm a pessimist.

Like all good advice, Moon didn't think he was going to have much chance to follow it.

Lots of people believe in God. But trusting Him . . . that is the next step.

If God existed, and if He cared for humankind, He would never have given us religion.

It is straightforward—and never mind, for now, about plagues and famines: if God existed, and if he cared for humankind, he would never have given us religion.

I do not rest on the broad upland of a system that includes a series of sure statements about the absolutes, but on a narrow, rocky ridge between the gulfs where there is no sureness of expressible knowledge but [only] the certainty of meeting what remains, undisclosed.

And if there were a devil it would not be one who decided against God, but one who, in eternity, came to no decision.