Quotes About Uncertainty

The good Lord made the world so we could earn our joy, Ma said. But it's no guarantee we'll ever be happy.

Worry is putting question marks where God has put periods.

But Ben had a bulge under his shirt and she was sure it was a gun.

Where I come from Nobody knows; And where I'm going Everything goes. The wind blows, The sea flows - And nobody knows.

Here is a world without joy and without hope. But it does not frighten me because I do not believe it.

Because when I saw you yesterday afternoon, you claimed you weren't sure that something was wrong with Cortland's grandfather. But if you sent a note to Sir Arthur, you must have been sure that something was wrong even before you brought Dr. Reeves there this morning." "Are you trying to evaluate your judgment or mine?" "Either or both," said Andrew with a grin.

Quantum mechanics completely overturned the classical worldview.

What can we know? How we should act? What might we hope for?

The end of man is knowledge but there's one thing he can't know. He can't know whether knowledge will save him or kill him. He will be killed, all right, but he can't know whether he is killed because of the knowledge which he has got or because of the knowledge which he hasn't got and which if he had it would save him.

The generation of random numbers is too important to be left to chance.

If there are no spots on a sugar cube then I've just put a dice in my tea.

Some people are more certain of everything than I am of anything.

Rationality will not save us.

He began to get the feeling that dear Uncle Carol "was drifting about in an Edwardian summer

That is to say, things have a way of getting worse and worse all the time, until in the end they get so bad that we lack even the means of knowing how bad they really are.

Economics could not be an exact science, because the number of variables was too great, and stability of variables over time could not be guaranteed. As he was to put it later, it is better to be roughly right than precisely wrong.

His life spanned not just the collapse of British power, but the growing enfeeblement of the British economy. It spanned the passage from certainty to uncertainty, from the perfumed garden of his youth to the jungle of his mature years, where monsters prowled.

These discussions are not just of historic interest. Keynes was the first economist to put uncertainty at the heart of the economic problem, and thus raise the issue of the scope and meaning of rationality in economics. Is rationality possible in an uncertain world, and how is it to be specified?

"And everybody praised the duke,Who this great fight did win.""But what good came of it at last?"Quoth little Peterkin."Why, that I cannot tell," said he;"But 'twas a famous victory."

One insight was that the ordinary physical world through which one shuffled heedless and half-assed toward nonentity was capable of composing itself, at any time and without notice, into a massive instrument of agonizing death.

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Like swimming squirrels, you navigate with the help of Heaven and a stiff breeze, but you never land where you hope to—do you?

Joe is never sure whether they're mad or just alarmingly and uncompromisingly incapable of self-delusion.