Quotes About Uncertainty

When you are diagnosed with prostate cancer, your condition is ranked on the Gleason Score, which measures its level of aggression. Mine is graded at seven out of 10. But this doesn't tell me where I stand in general.

Britain in 2018 has the feel of a Netflix drama approaching its season finale. It's the classic 'how on earth does anyone get out of this one?' kind of cliffhanger, with all of the key protagonists confronted by their nemesis.

There may be fairies at the bottom of the garden. There is no evidence for it, but you can't prove that there aren't any, so shouldn't we be agnostic with respect to fairies?

To believe in something not yet proved and to underwrite it with our lives: it is the only way we can leave the future open.

Quite often, I have a compelling sense of how a role should be played. And I'm proved - equally as often - quite wrong.

Scientists are very afraid of being proven wrong.

I'm doomed romantically. I try to find a formula for everything in life, and that includes romance, but my methods haven't proven successful because there is no formula in romance.

Who knoweth if to die be but to live, and that called life by mortals be but death?

You don't know what your life is, nor what you're doing, nor who you are.

And whatso man they call Happy, believe not ere the last day fall!

Look this way! Death is a debt all mortal men must pay; Aye, there is no man living who can say If life will last him yet a single day. On, to the dark, drives Fortune; and no force Can wrest her secret nor put back her course….

HERACLES. I understand no more. Thy words are riddles.

You don't know what your life is, nor what you're doing, nor who you are.

Was my life going to go on like this forever, totally uneventful? Alternating between unfulfilled expectations and expected disappointments?

Happiness can be frightening when one is not accustomed to the sensation.

I know very few young people, but it seems to me that they are all possessed with an almost fatal hunger for permanence.

Even though the software component of a technology is often not so easy to observe, we should not forget that technology almost always represents a mixture of hardware and software aspects. According to our definition, technology is a means of uncertainty reduction that is made possible by information about the cause-effect relationships on which the technology is based.

Trata-se de uma aventura, não de um pacote de férias. E as aventuras não são aventuras se não houver um certo grau de perigo e incerteza.

the economy "is like a bird. You can't hold it in your hand but have to let it fly. But it might fly away, and that is why you need a cage to control it.

Why are all the exciting things so uncomfortable

She was feeling the pressure of the world outside and she wanted to see him and feel his presence beside her and be reassured that she was doing the right thing after all.

What'll we do with ourselves this afternoon?" cried Daisy, "and the day after that, and the next thirty years?

Well, you never knew exactly how much space you occupied in people's lives. Yet from this fog his affection emerged--the best contacts are when one knows the obstacles and still wants to preserve a relation.

I can't exactly describe how I feel but it's not quite right. And it leaves me cold.