Quotes About Uncertainty

Was it a fire in the kitchen? No, a bomb in the basement.

happened?" "Yeah.

If the calculus is much like a cathedral, its construction the work of centuries, it remained until the nineteenth century a cathedral suspiciously suspended in midair, the thing simply hanging there, with no one absolutely convinced that one day the gorgeous and elaborate structure would not come crashing down and fracture in a thousand pieces.

Nude descending a staircase headless, not knowing where she is going but brave because all dreams lack conclusions and she is not enlisted to an ending.

We propose instead that the basic element be a moment which, like the moment of consciousness, cannot be precisely related to measurements of space and time, but rather covers a somewhat vaguely defined region which is extended in space and has duration in time.

Even in science to raise fundamental questions can be very disturbing. Somebody could feel, 'I'd like to have the answer to this right away, and get out of this unpleasant state of disturbance', and he would never get anywhere.

Everywhere I looked, demons of the future [were] on the battlegrounds of one's emotional plane.

I change my mind a lot. I usually don't agree with what I say very much. I'm an awful liar.

I don't know where I'm going from here, but I promise it won't be boring.

Does the universe hate us? How many pitfalls lie ahead, waiting to shred our conceited molecule-clusters back into unthinking dust? Shall we count them?

I regret having been the bearer of ambiguous tidings.

But then, of course, it could have been worse. This may not be the best of all possible worlds. But Pangloss never met Murphy. And things could have been very much worse, indeed. The pyramid loomed ahead, separated by a broad river from the main part of an alien metropolis that had once been named Cal'mari.

Why is the future always Ã¢â'¬Â¦ in the future?

When people fear for their futures, they like to gather in a dark room and stare at a screen, holding hands against the gloom.

Bob Rubin's book In an Uncertain World. Rubin had argued that many outcomes are possible in a given situation, and you have to anticipate and prepare for eventualities that seem unlikely but that could prove extremely damaging should they materialize

Absolutes do not exist in this universe.

And how long dost thou expect this dying of thine to persist?' The voice seemed only mildly curious. 'I don't know' I replied through a sudden wave of self pity. 'I've never done it before.

The thought that the bullet has already been fired at each of us and it is only a matter of time when it will hit, brings comfort to some and terror to others.

almost nothing important that ever happens to you happens because you engineer it. Destiny has no beeper; destiny always leans trenchcoated out of an alley with some sort of 'psst' that you usually can't even hear because you're in such a rush to or from something important you've tried to engineer.

I have filled 3 Mead notebooks trying to figure out whether it was Them or Just Me.

Yes, I'm paranoid — but am I paranoid enough?

Almost nothing important that ever happens to you happens because you engineer it.

the soul's certainty that the day will have to be not traversed but sort of climbed, vertically, and then that going to sleep again at the end of it will be like falling, again, off something tall and sheer.

Es muy raro sentir que añoras algo que ni siquiera estás seguro de conocer.