Quotes About Uncertainty

Every judgment in science stands on the edge of error, and is personal.

Prediction is difficult, especially the future.

One may say that predictions are dangerous particularly for the future. If the danger involved in a prediction is not incurred, no consequence follows and the uncertainty principle is not violated.

Now, being a science fiction writer, when I see a natural principle, I wonder if it could fail.

The fate of all explanation is to close one door only to have another fly wide open.

There is no better soporific and sedative than skepticism.

The more chaos there is, the more science holds on to abstract systems of control, and the more chaos is engendered.

A review of the science suggests that uncertainty is so high as to raise a good prospect that mandatory green house gas reductions will produce little or no environmental benefit.

Real numbers are good if you add the word 'random'.

In science, nothing is ever 100% proven.

Science casts a long black shadow back over who we think we are, and where it falls the temperature falls with it. Its touch is chilly and unforgiving.

Science can't tell you why anything happens.

Life isn't a science. We make it up as we go.

The world is not bound to get better as a result of new discoveries in science and technology, nor is it bound to get worse, there will simply be new opportunities for making it better or worse.

God not only plays dice, he throws them in the corner where you can't see them.

Chance ... must be something more than the name we give to our ignorance.

Fiction, maybe art in general, is a tentative, uncertain enterprise; it's not science, it's an exploration, but you never find much in the way of answers.

science can only take you so far and then you have to leap

Science is as yet in its infancy, and we can foretell little of the future save that the thing that has not been is the thing that shall be; that no beliefs, no values, no institutions are safe.

We are still too close to the birth of the universe to be certain about its death.

The Suitors Ball is fast approaching and it's a nasty reminder that my suitor will be chosen shortly. I feel sorry for the poor unfortunate guy, whichever one of them it happens to be.

She was afraid of not being able to pull herself out of the dream world, never waking up, never knowing what really happened, never realizing her goals, her hopes, her dreams.

Newton's laws of physics can rarely be applied to the real world. There is more to life than cause and effect. Things just aren't that simple

She prayed for that all through the night, uncertain to Whom or what, but with a feeling that almost resembled faith.