Quotes About Uncertainty

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I find the idea quite intolerable that an electron exposed to radiation should choose of its own free will not only its moment to jump off but its direction. In that case I would rather be a cobbler, or even an employee in a gaming house, than a physicist.

Our situation on this earth seems strange. Every one of us appears here involuntarily and uninvited for a short stay, without knowing the whys and the wherefore.

Keep on sowing your seed, for you never know which will grow - perhaps it all will.

Zwei Dinge sind unendlich, das Universum und die menschliche Dummheit, aber beim Universum bin ich mir noch nicht ganz sicher.

The question that sometime's drive's me hazy, am i or the other's crazy?

A question that sometimes drives me hazy, am I or are the others crazy?

As far as our propositions are certain, they do not say anything about reality, and as far as they do say anything about reality, they are not certain Albert Einstein (as cited in Schumpeter, 1991)

Kuantum mekaniÄŸi konusunda çok çal??mak gerekir.Ama içimden bir ses bana bunun her ÅŸeyin çözümü olmad???n? söylüyor.Bu teoriyle birçok ÅŸey aç?klan?yor; ama hala O'nun s?rr?n? çözebilmiÅŸ deÄŸiliz.Ben yine de O'nun zar at?p kumar oynad???n?,hiç mi hiç sanm?yorum.

Planung ersetzt Zufall durch Irrtum.

In real-life situations, however, risks frequently increase without any corresponding increase in the payoff:

Reading Kafka, I sense that the elicited questions are always just beyond my understanding.... They promise an answer but not now, perhaps next time, next page. Something in his writing... allows me approximations, intuitions, half-dreams, but never total comprehension.... Kafka offers me absolute uncertainties which fit so many of my own.

I had as many doubts as anyone else. Standing on the starting line, we're all cowards.

Isn't there something in living dangerously?

Not quite. I'm thinking of a queer feeling I sometimes get, a feel that I've got something important to say and the power to say it—only I don't know what it is, and I can't make any use of the power.

So in a certain sense disintegration may have its advantages. But of course it's dangerous, horribly dangerous. Suppose you couldn't get back, out of the chaos...

La filosofía nos enseña a sentir incertidumbre ante las cosas que nos parecen evidentes. La propaganda, en cambio, nos enseña a aceptar como evidentes cosas sobre las que sería razonable suspender nuestro juicio o sentir dudas.

All my thoughts are second thoughts.

Philosophy teaches us to feel uncertain about the things that seems to us self-evident. Propaganda, on the other hand, teaches us to accept as self-evident matters about which it would be reasonable to suspend our judgement or to feel doubt.

Philosophy teaches us to feel uncertain about the things that seem to us self-evident. Propaganda, on the other hand, teaches us to accept as self-evident matters about which it would be reasonable to suspend our judgment or to feel doubt.

I'm thinking of a queer feeling I sometimes get, a feeling that I've got something important to say and the power to say it - only I don't know what it is, and I can't make any use of the power.

De qué sirven la verdad, la belleza o el conocimiento cuando las bombas de ántrax llueven del cielo?

Alone among the animals, we suffer from the future perfect tense. Rover the Dog cannot imagine a future world of dogs in which all fleas will have been eliminated and doghood will finally have achieved its full glorious potential

los hombres se someten a amar lo que tienen que hacer, sin saber siquiera que eso es someterse.