Quotes About Uncertainty

The future is unwritten. What will be will be.

That's how life works. You know it when you know it. They're nineteen and in love. Alone except for each other. Jobless and homeless, looking for something, somewhere, anywhere here. They're on a sixteen-line highway. Driving west.

Lorenz saw it differently. Yes, you could change the weather. You could make it do something different from what it would otherwise have done. But if you did, then you would never know what it would otherwise have done. It would be like giving an extra shuffle to an already well-shuffled pack of cards. You know it will change your luck, but you don't know whether for better or worse.

For Wiener, entropy was a measure of disorder; for Shannon , of uncertainty. Fundamentally, as they were realizing, these were the same.

Nonlinearity means that the act of playing the game has a way of changing the rules.

It's the best possible time to be alive, when almost everything you thought you knew was wrong. The

They could see from the start that Wilson's idea sat somewhere near the border between possible and hopeless—but on which side of the border?

Information is closely associated with uncertainty." Uncertainty, in turn, can be measured by counting the number of possible messages. If only one message is possible, there is no uncertainty and thus no information.

He believed in the primacy of doubt, not as a blemish upon our ability to know but as the essence of knowing. The alternative to uncertainty is authority, against which science had fought for centuries.

The power of the lawyer is in the uncertainty of the law.

Medicine is a science of uncertainty and an art of probability.

Human spirit is the ability to face the uncertainty of the future with curiosity and optimism. It is the belief that problems can be solved, differences resolved. It is a type of confidence. And it is fragile. It can be blackened by fear and superstition.

If there's one thing that's certain in business, it's uncertainty.

Although our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty, our nature often finds uncertainty fascinating.

Change is always tough. Even for those who see themselves as agents of change, the process of starting a new thing can cause times of disorientation, uncertainty and insecurity.

The world is noisy and messy. You need to deal with the noise and uncertainty.

My friends call me a 'pace-setter.' Sometimes I am impatient, I think, but you must be fast and flexible in business because uncertainty is the only certainty in life.

'Almost' is about uncertainty soon to be dismissed but not quite dispelled. 'Almost' is about revelation to come but not entirely promised.

I'm a two-time breast cancer survivor who lives with pre-existing conditions every day, and I know the uncertainty people face if they can't get their medicine.

Accepting that the world is full of uncertainty and ambiguity does not and should not stop people from being pretty sure about a lot of things.

Life to me is defined by uncertainty. Uncertainty is the state in which we live, and there is no way to outfox it.

If you aren't in the moment, you are either looking forward to uncertainty, or back to pain and regret.

Information is the resolution of uncertainty.

Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty.