Quotes About Uncertainty

She couldn't be sure that everything she knew about herself was portable.

I was going to click my heels and go home, where life would be, as it is anywhere, a little bit dull Knasas, a little bit great and terrible Oz. I just wanted to stand here for a minute, first, and fix in my memory the life I wasn't choosing, the way Rajiv looked at me before I told him I was leaving, the cottonwood snow. Nathan watched me, an uncertain look on his perfectly, terribly familiar face. "Are you ready?" he said

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so sure of themselves and wiser people so full of doubt.

Life is made up of a series of judgments on insufficient data, and if we waited to run down all our doubts, it would flow past us.

Living is a hazardous profession.

When I was 5, some financial things happened, and I moved seven times in a year. We moved from apartment to apartment, sometimes living with friends. My mom would always say, 'Don't get comfortable, because we may not be here long.'

Someday you will understand that life can't flow as you always planned.

We may have hell if we have war, and we may have hell if we have peace. But if we have no vision for what we do, we have hell anyway.

Ian had always suspected that the happiest day of a survivalist's life would be the one when the world ended. Now he knew it was true.

I'm not sure whether I'm losing my grip on reality," he said. "Or if reality is losing its grip on us.

He brought over a gold box and opened it. Inside were chocolates wrapped in foil. Billy sat down close to me. "Life," he said, "is like a box of bonbons. Some dark with chocolate filling; some with cherries. But you never know till you open the silver wrapper what life holds for you." He held my hand and squeezed it. I squeezed back.

Every business and every product has risks. You can't get around it.

It's a good thing God doesn't let you look a year or two into the future, or you might be sorely tempted to shoot yourself. But He's a charitable Lord: He only lets you see one day at a time. When times get tough, there's no choice except to take a deep breath, carry on, and do the best you can.

It's a good thing god doesn't let you look a year or two into the future, or you might be sorely tempted to shoot yourself.

It's a good thing God doesn't let you look a year or two into the future, or you might be sorely tempted to shoot yourself. But He's a charitable Lord: He only lets you see one day at a time.

It's a good thing God doesn't let you look a year or two into the future, or you might be sorely tempted to shoot yourself.

The future is as full of promise as it is fraught with uncertainty.

They had no confidence in themselves and even less in their own kind.

Uncertainty is a good thing at the end of a narrative. A simultaneous gain and loss captures the complexity of human existence. The way one sentence follows another, if we pay attention to syntax and rhythm, should express the final effect we want the narrative to have on a reader.

Sunja was still thinking about Hansu and how he might be nearby. More than anything, she was afraid of running into him. Yet it would be worse, she thought, never to see him at all." Book 1, p89

Rule 2 raises a whole bunch of questions. Does the wave function collapse abruptly or does it take some time? Does the collapse take place as soon as the system interacts with the detector? Or only later, when a record is made? Or perhaps later still, when it is perceived by a conscious mind? Is the collapse a physical change, which means that the quantum state is real? Or is it just a change in our knowledge of the system, which means the

On a personal level, to think in time is to accept the uncertainty of life as the necessary price of being alive. To rebel against the precariousness of life, to reject uncertainty, to adopt a zero tolerance to risk, to imagine that life can be organized to completely eliminate danger, is to think outside time. To be human is to live suspended between danger and opportunity.

Do I care about these other branches? Should I? There is always the chance that at some time in the future an empty branch recombines with my branch, causing interference, which changes my life

But were we mere atoms, interference between full and empty branches of the wave function would be happening all the time.