Quotes About Uncertainty

Well now, whose feint am I?

Technology, in common with many other activities, tends toward avoidance of risks by investors. Uncertainty is ruled out if possible. Capital investment follows this rule, since people generally prefer the predictable. Few recognize how destructive this can be, how it imposes severe limits on variability and thus makes whole populations fatally vulnerable to the shocking ways our universe can throw the dice. —ASSESSMENT OF IX, BENE GESSERIT ARCHIVES

Avere i primi, vaghi sospetti della propria mortalità, significa conoscere l'inizio del terrore; esser coscienti, oltre ogni dubbio, che si è mortali, significa aver conosciuto la fine del terrore.

Kendi ölümlülüÄŸünden ÅŸüphelenmek, dehÅŸetin baÅŸlang?c?n? bilmektir; ölümlü olduÄŸunu reddedilemez bir ÅŸekilde öÄŸrenmek, dehÅŸetin sonunu bilmektir.

EÄŸer kesinlik, mutlak bir geleceÄŸi mutlak olarak bilmekse, bu yaln?zca k?l?k deÄŸiÅŸtirmiÅŸ ölümdür!

Mutlak bilgiye sahip ç?kmak gaddarl?kt?r. Bilgi, belirsizliÄŸin k?y?s?ndaki sonsuz bir macerad?r.

The universe neither threatens nor promises. It holds things beyond our sway: the fall of a meteor, the eruption of a spiceblow, growing old and dying. These are the realities of this universe and they must be faced regardless of how you feel about them. You cannot fend off such realities with words. They will come at you in their own wordless way and then, then you will understand what is meant by "life and death.

There's no reassuring ceiling over you, Moneo. Only an open sky full of changes. Welcome it. Every sense you possess is an instrument for reacting to change. Does that tell you nothing?

A kind of Heisenberg indeterminacy intervened: the expenditure of energy that revealed what he saw, changed what he saw.

The unknown brings its own worries,' he said.

Somos uma sonda perscrutando o desconhecido, investigando a incerteza.

Abandonem a certeza! Esse é o comando mais profundo que a vida nos dá. É o que constitui a vida, no final das contas.

There are problems in this universe for which there are no answers," Paul said. "Nothing. Nothing can be done.

Chaque route que l'on suit exactement jusqu'au bout ne conduit exactement à rien. Escaladez la montagne pour voir si c'est bien une montagne. Quand vous serez au sommet de la montagne, vous ne pourrez plus voir la montagne.

Probability is always an expression of the human limitation of knowledge and is never some facet of nature.

Only a mentality that could see the entire multiverse would be able to dispense with probabilities.

The devil you know is better than the devil you don't.

I remember what my uncle Pa Keating would say, there are times when you wouldn't know whether to shit or go blind.

Trading In The Zone – Master the Market With Confidence, Discipline and a Winning Attitude" by Mark Douglas, you would agree with me that the market is just unpredictable.

Neither of them had asked that this thing should be—that their destinies, their very souls, should be the sport of chance. If they could have known, they would have shunned the fearful risk. But they were allowed no voice in the matter. Why should it all be?

but it is good to be several floors up in the dead of night wondering whether you are any good or not and the only decision you can make is that you did it...

The secret to understanding Citron was that ... he knows thirty percent of what he thinks he knows

Nemôžeme svoje životné rozhodnutia založiÃ…Â¥ na presved?eniach vychádzajúcich z nejasností. Životné rozhodnutia treba založiÃ…Â¥ na vierohodných teóriách, pozorovaniach a evidentných vzÃ…Â¥ahoch prí?iny a následku.

All mature adults must accept that they are essentially unknowable--and that they will never know the one they love.