Quotes About Uncertainty

In this transgression, one does not know who is engulfing and who is engulfed.

The paradox of history...is that a contingent future, once it enters the present, appears real and even necessary.

History is not made in advance...It depends on the will and audacity of men upon occasion, and...it contains an element of contingency and risk.

We cannot say at what moment the decision is taken: it is always to be taken or already taken.

We must recognize the indeterminate as a positive phenomenon.

As a kid, all I thought about was death.

Physics as we know it will be over in six months.

We have sought for firm ground and found none. The deeper we penetrate, the more restless becomes the universe; all is rushing about and vibrating in a wild dance.

Words," said the host, at length, "is worse'n bullets. You never know what they'll hit.

Word's is worse'n bullets. You never know what they'll hit.

A Russian, the poet David Samoilov, said later, "We were all expecting war. But we were not expecting that war.

Trying to maintain good relations814 with a communist is like wooing a crocodile, you do not know whether to tickle it under the chin or beat it on the head. When it opens its mouth you cannot tell whether it is trying to smile, or preparing to eat you up.

Nimitz remarked that when he sent Spruance out with the fleet, "he was always sure286 he would bring it home; when he sent Halsey out, he did not know precisely what was going to happen." Halsey's boldness was in doubt seldom, his judgement and intellect often.

We are readying ourselves to enter a long tunnel full of blood and darkness (Andre Gide, 28 July 1914)

Life is a hard school for u know not wat level of class u r in, wat exam u will have, and u can't copy bcoz nobody else has the same paper… HARSHIT AGRAWAL

Whence come I and whither go I? That is the great unfathomable question, the same for every one of us. Science has no answer to it.

We have no right to assume that any physical laws exist, or if they have existed up to now, that they will continue to exist in a similar manner in the future.

We have no right to assume that any physical laws exist, or if they have existed up until now, that they will continue to exist in a similar manner in the future.

Please tread carefully and keep away from the shadows; you are about to enter the abyss.

My hands scrabbled in a wide, frantic arc and touched something hard and round. Wood. I pulled myself forward a few inches, grasped it and, afraid to look, felt above it to a firm, cloth-covered surface. It was a chair. I forced my eyes open. I

1. "Do Your Worrying Before You Place Your Bet, Not After the Wheel Starts Turning

I failed once in the past, so I will probably fail in the future" is neither logical nor rational. To conclude "I can't" in advance, without trying, and in the absence of any evidence to support the inevitability of failure, is not rational. We should be more like the man who was asked if he could play the piano. "I don't know," he said. "What do you mean you don't know?" he was asked. "I have never tried," he replied.

The minute one utters a certainty, the opposite comes to mind.

Sophie, honey, stop looking at me like that," Garrett said gruffly. "You'll have me convinced I'm going to die." "You're not?