Quotes About Uncertainty

The future cannot be determined. It can only be experienced as it occurring. Life doesn't know what it will be until it notices what it has become.

Life is on the wire. The rest is just waiting.

Life isn't a book. There's no guarantee of a happy ending.

You can't just plan a moment when things get back on track, just as you can't plan the moment you lose your way in the first place.

We live in wonder, blaze in a cycle of passion and apprehension.

In a world of diminishing mystery, the unknown persists.

The fact is there is nothing that you can trust; and that is a terrible fact, whether you like it or not. Psychologically there is nothing in the world, that you can put your faith, your trust, or your belief in. Neither your gods, nor your science can save you, can bring you psychological certainty; and you have to accept that you can trust in absolutely nothing.

The constant assertion of belief is an indication of fear.

I thought about my beautiful dreams and wondered if they would drift away just like those lovely soap bubbles.

His voice was affectionate but also flustered, like that of a child who had no idea what to do.

When neighbors ran into each other, they did not stop to chat but just nodded and hurried on. Everyone felt vulnerable, and no one wanted to say anything that would cause trouble. We

Always wear pretty underwear, on account of you just never know.

They know they're supposed to do something, but they're not sure what. And you know what they do when they're not sure-- of course you do: They either do the wrong thing or they do nothing, and it's a toss up as to which is worse.

But though we must pretend otherwise in order to function, none of us can know the script for any day.

If he could rewrite the day, his life would be the way it always had been, and his future would be as he had planned. But though we must pretend otherwise in order to function, none of us can know the script for any day.

I consent, Sir, to this Constitution because I expect no better, and because I am not sure, that it is not the best."18

There was an element of risk - however small - in everything. You just had to accept that and get on with it.

The night before I'd discovered am lost in almost. Did everyone already know?

I loathe the telephone - vile, shrill-voiced intruder. i'd never answer it at all if I didn't feel I might be missing something: a million-pound offer from a film company or Robert Mitchum asking me out to lunch. I hate the element of uncertainty - you never know if it's going to be a friend or a foe on the line. I wish they'd invent a telephone which turned green like a breath-test when it was an enemy ringing, so I needn't answer it.

The trustworthiness of science comes not from certainty, but from its very openness about its uncertainty, always calling into question what we currently understand and being prepared to replace that knowledge with a deeper understanding if something better comes along. In other walks of life, this attitude might be regarded as fickle. But not in science. Scientific progress depends on scientists' unwavering commitment to the qualities of honesty and doubt.

The Christopher Columbus Aware: This award goes to those who, like good old Chris, when they set out to do something, don't know where they are going; neither do they know how to get there. When they arrive, they don't know where they are, and when they return, they don't know where they've been.

The future is an opaque mirror. Anyone who tries to look into it sees nothing but the dim outlines of an old and worried face.

The future is an opaque mirror. Anyone who tries to look into it sees nothing but the dim outline of an old and worried face.

Oswald watched, and said: "I don't know what you're talking about.