Quotes About Uncertainty

My movies are not movies of answers but of questions.

Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.

Every clarification breeds new questions.

Science is full of questions and often those questions do not have answers. Expertise on the other hand, is a conclusion, it's full of hubris incapable of acknowledging its own mistakes.

For me, this world of questions and the provisional, this chase after an answer that was always put off to the next day, all that was euphoric. I lived in the future.

We'd like to have immediate answers to all of our questions. I think medicine in particular. I found it frustrating as a physician sometimes to not be able to tell someone exactly why something was happening to them. There are still so many mysteries in medicine.

I have always been much better at asking questions than knowing what the answers were.

You never have to know all the answers because you won't be asked all the questions.

I didn't know what kinds of questions to ask in mathematics. In physics, I could see there were things that were known and things that weren't.

I don't think you want to give all the answers, but I think every answer you do give should bring up another question, and not all questions should be answered.

Why was I feeling this way? Why was everything so bad in my life? I had no answers to these questions.

Science goes from question to question; big questions, and little, tentative answers. The questions as they age grow ever broader, the answers are seen to be more limited.

I never think that a film should answer questions for you. I think it should make you ask a lot of questions.

And what I wanted to do was, I wanted to explore problems and areas where we didn't have answers. In fact, where we didn't even know the right questions to ask.

Non-technical questions sometimes don't have an answer at all.

I don't think anyone is qualified to answer questions of eternal fate definitively, much less pinpoint it to a given day.

Breakaway goals are fun. When you score a quick one in front of the net, it just happens, but during a breakaway, there's about one or two seconds where you're not sure.

Life's so much based on instincts and quick decisions, and people don't know what they're looking for.

Far from the quick and easy exit that Leave campaigners once promised, Brexit has become mired in its own internal contradictions.

Change is good. Quick change can be very dangerous.

It's different for every project. Some parts are quicker than others to get and know; sometimes right up until the last moment you're just praying that something will click. But you can only do a certain amount of work and then at some point you've got to think: 'OK, I'm just going to have to leap now.'

I'm not making up my mind about anything right now. Things are happening so quickly for me, and I'm still in the thinking stage.

But I had no idea that they were going to pull the plug so quickly.

Careers can disappear just as quickly as they're made, so I'm in no hurry.