Quotes About Uncertainty

It's a very telling thing when you have children. You have to be there for them, you've got to set an example, when you're not sure what your example is, and anyway the world is changing so fast you don't know what is appropriate anymore.

Every technology, every science that tells us more about ourselves, is scary at the time.

A proof tells us where to concentrate our doubts.

Physics tells us observations can't be predicted absolutely. Rather, there's a range of possible observations each with a different probability.

If the Internet went down or there was no telly I would be 'oh no, oh no.'

I did Kannada when I was in college. I wasn't even sure of what I was doing. I started figuring out my career in acting when I began doing Telugu and Tamil films.

I have sung a couple of songs in Telugu and Hindi films, but I was not happy with that. So, I thought of doing an album. I do not know how people will react.

Running at night used to frighten me. Part of it was simply safety, the question of whether level ground would truly appear under each tentative footstep, and whether the temporary but complete blindness suffered while running toward headlights was, in fact, concealing death.

I always knew I'd be leaving government someday. I just didn't know when. There was something about knowing that it was temporary that left me in writerly observational mode.

Fifteen minutes shy of two o'clock. The thick of the night. The zone of lost objectivity.

They don't seem to be getting tired, the way we thought. Maybe it'll have to be a race, and I hope we win. Some people sometimes think we won't, and maybe I believe them, but not for too long.

Generating a rapidly changing environment--that is, engaging in actively that is so quick it is disorienting and appears uncertain or ambiguous to the enemy--inhibits the adversary's ability to adapt and causes confusion and disorder that, in turn, causes an adversary to overreact or underreact. Boyd closed the briefing by saying the message is that whoever can handle the quickest rate of change is the one who survives.

Adults always wonder what to say and how to say it when they're talking to a child. You want to be wise, but all you are is a child yourself in a larger body. Nothing is ever what it seems. The things that you think you know are never certain. I know that now. I wish that I didn't, but I do.

Oh, I see. I think. I don't have to actually know things I don't know, I just have to know what they are and realize that they're in the don't-know category." The kid drained the last of a mug of Coke and slammed it down hard on the bar. "That's it!

Oh, I see. I think. I don't have to actually know things I don't know, I just have to know what they are and realize that they're in the don't-know category." The kid drained the last of a mug of Coke and slammed it down hard on the bar. "That's it!" Despite himself, Barton felt proud. He took

I have come to regret being right about anything anymore.

But he saw behind the sneers and laughter to a people without hope — people who sensed the earth was changing but could not comprehend it — people who needed something to believe in so much that they believed in death.

I knew what we had was not over, we were not done and we did not know how to make our love end.

You have good days and bad days when you get to be my age," Finn said. "And you never can predict which it's going to be.

Nothing's routine when the doctor has to slip that mask over your face and tell you nighty-night.

My mother used to tell me that life is a lot like reading a book. You don't know what is going to happen next unless you turn the page and read to the ending. That's the beauty of reading. The journey.

life is a lot like reading a book. You don't know what is going to happen next unless you turn the page and read to the ending. That's the beauty of reading. The journey.

Maybe she did. Maybe she's like Houdini.

You realize you are like 99.9 percent of the rest of the world, just a cog in the wheel trying to make some sense of where you belong in the incomprehensible grand design of it all. And you realize that people you trust are going to disappoint you, friends will come and go, and those you love will die. Sloane