Quotes About Uncertainty

When you have come to the edge of all that you know and are about to drop off into the darkness of the unknown, faith is knowing that one of two things will happen,' the Warmaster had told him. 'And what are they?' he had asked. 'That there will be something solid to stand on or you'll be taught to fly,' laughed Horus as he jumped.

A world of death is a world of stagnation, without the change that makes it worthwhile. What you call uncertainty, I call life itself.

more apparent as I got off the plane and headed to the taxi stand. There was no point

I'm often dating people, but I don't say it because you sort of know it won't last long.

What does education do, what does it have to offer, when deprived of its necessary partner, the future, and face instead with - no future at all?

Tis life you should fear--life, with its dangers, its toils, its heartbreakings.

I run blindly through the madhouse ... And I cannot even pray ... For I have no God.

siamo proprio come le canne al vento, donna Ester mia. Ecco perché! Siamo canne, e la sorte è il vento.

We've been half right about a lot of things, but there's something missing from our theories, something whose nature we haven't even guessed yet. If we don't learn to understand it, it will kill us.

I hope you theorists know what you're doing.' 'I can assure you that we don't. The geometry is still beyond us. All I learnt in the void was that our best guess so far is certainly wrong.

Evolution was a random walk across a minefield, not a pre-ordained trajectory, onward and upward toward "perfection.

You don't take a traveler for a partner if you hope that the world will always stay the same. You do it because you can't quite break away, yourself, but you can't live without the promise of change hanging over you every day. That's what the border means, for a lot of people. The promise of change they'd never be able to make any other way.

History can't harm you; the "chance" of having survived the last x minutes is one hundred per cent, once you've done it. As the unknowable future becomes the unchangeable past, risk must collapse into certainty, one way or another.

And I could go on doing it, walking the convoluted border between meaningless happiness and meaningless despair. Maybe I was lucky; maybe the best way to cling to that zone was to see clearly what lay on either side.

You cannot see the future. You cannot change the past. All of life consists of running into darkness.

Murphy's Law doesn't mean bad stuff will happen," he explained gently, really wanting her to understand. "It means 'whatever can happen… will happen.' And that sounded just fine to us.

You say science is about admitting what we don't know," she said.

We don't know in what state we shall meet again; but that we shall recognize each other and be together in eternity I am perfectly certain.

Part of filmmaking is always a guessing game, and part of it is always a game of trust.

Maybe that's all growing up is. Knowing in real time that you don't know anything.

According to Bohr and Heisenberg, the universe exists as an infinite number of overlapping possibilities.

the more energy a probability requires, the more unstable it really is.

You don't ask why clarity comes, you just hope it does." Tim

the self-serving, doubt-quenching, certainty-seeking faith that these folks are choosing to pursue is not faith as it's taught in Scripture....the faith that God's people are called to embrace is one that encourages people to wrestle with God, to not be afraid of questions, and to act faithfully in the face of uncertainty.