Quotes About Uncertainty

Don't play Quantum Russian Roulette.

Upon measurement, the wave function collapses. However spread out it may have been pre-measurement, afterward it is concentrated on the result we obtained.

That's the uncertainty principle. It's not that we can't know both quantities at the same time; it's just a fact about how wave functions work that if position is concentrated near some location, momentum is completely undetermined, and vice versa.

Hope comes from imperfect information.

Every single time I start to do a picture, without fail, I feel as if I don't know what I'm doing.

This war on terrorism is going to continue for an indefinite period of time.

Sometimes guessing is the best you can do. In the real world, we guess all the time and it serves us well.

The time for hope is gone, and come for fear.

Most of the time people feel okay. Probably it's because at the moment they're not actually dying.

In my job, people tell you that all the time: 'This shoot was great. You look amazing.' But you never know what they say when you turn away.

The past is solid, the future is liquid.

At a time of great social upheaval, all things are possible.

When you absolutely don't know what to do anymore, it is time to panic

For a time I would feel I belonged still to a world of straightforward facts; but the feeling would not last long. Something would turn up to scare it away.

We must expect everything and fear everything from time and from men.

Look, we're living in a crazy time right now. There's a lot of craziness going on in the world and in the United States in particular.

you will never catch up. Walk around feeling like a leaf know you could tumble at any second. Then decide what to do with your time. --The Art of Disappearing

Each time you stay present with fear and uncertainty, you're letting go of a habitual way of finding security and comfort.

I do tend to think that things that have incredibly long time horizons often do involve market failures.

The people of our city are holding on by a thread. Time has run out. Can we survive another night? And who can we depend on? Only God knows.

In the future, maybe quantum mechanics will teach us something equally chilling about exactly how we exist from moment to moment of what we like to think of as time.

I hate time. It never does what you want it to.

Most of the time I spend when I get up in the morning is trying to figure out what is going to happen.

If somebody knew every time they did something it was going to be a hit there would never be any failures. Sadly, that's not how it works. You take nothing for granted.