Quotes About Uncertainty

We can't predict what that will be or when we will find it because if we knew that, we would have found it already!

Do the laws governing the universe allow us to predict exactly what is going to happen to us in the future? The short answer is no, and yes. In principle, the laws allow us to predict the future. But in practice the calculations are often too difficult.

Any physical theory is always provisional, in the sense that it is only a hypothesis: you can never prove it.

We live in bewildering world

In order to understand the origin of the universe, one therefore has to incorporate the Uncertainty Principle into Einstein's general theory of relativity. This has been the great challenge in theoretical physics for at least the last thirty years. We haven't solved it yet, but we have made a lot of progress.

Fizica cuantic? ne spune c? oricât de am?nunÈ›ite ar fi observaÈ›iile noastre asupra prezentului, trecutul (neobservat), la fel ca viitorul, e nedefinit È™i exist? doar ca un spectru de posibilit??i. Conform fizicii cuantice, universul nu are doar un singur trecut sau o singur? istorie.

Even worse, if determinism breaks down, we can't be sure of our past history either. The history books and our memories could just be illusions. It is the past that tells us who we are. Without it, we lose our identity.

Sains tampaknya telah mengungkap satu set hukum yang memberi tahu kita bagaimana alam semesta akan berkembang seiring waktu jika kita mengetahui keadaannya pada saat apa pun, dalam batas-batas yang ditetapkan oleh kaidah ketidakastian. Hukum-hukum itu boleh jadi aslinya ditetapkan oleh Tuhan, tapi tampaknya Dia sudah membiarkan alam semesta berkembang sesuai hukum-hukum itu dan sekarang tak lagi ikut campur dalam alam semesta.

I have noticed that even people who claim everything is predetermined and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road. - Stephen Hawking "Black Holes and Baby Universes

por completa que sea nuestra observación del presente, el pasado (no observado) y el futuro son indefinidos y sólo existen como un espectro de posibilidades.

Tôi nh?n ra r?ng ngay c? nh?ng ng??i luôn kh?ng ??nh m?i th? ??u Ä'ã ???c s?p ??t trÆ°á»›c và s? ch?ng làm gì có th? thay ??i ???c cÅ©ng v?n quan sát trÆ°á»›c khi qua ???ng.

Deoarece principiul de incertitudine nu permite s? avem valori exacte atât pentru câmp, cât È™i pentru viteza lui de variaÈ›ie, spaÈ›iul nu e niciodat? gol. El poate avea o starea de energie minim?, numit? vid, dar acea stare e supus? la ceea ce numim fluctuaÈ›ii cuantice sau fluctuaÈ›ii ale vidului.

Revolutions usually begin as replacements for older certainties, and not as pristine discoveries in uncharted terrain.

When you're twenty-one, life is a roadmap. It's only when you get to be twenty-five or so that you begin to suspect that you've been looking at the map upside down, and not until you're forty are you entirely sure. By the time you're sixty, take it from me, you're fucking lost.

You think Okay, I get it, I'm prepared for the worst , but you hold out that small hope, see, and that's what fucks you up. That's what kills you.

He smiles a lot. But I think there might be worms inside him making him smile.

I believe most people are essentially good. I know that I am. It's you I'm not entirely sure of.

Life turns on a dime. Sometimes towards us, but more often it spins away, flirting and flashing as it goes: so long, honey, it was good while it lasted, wasn't it?

The world had teeth and it could bite you with them anytime it wanted.

What if I fall?', Tim cried. Maerlyn laughed. 'Sooner or later, we all do.

We never know which lives we influence, or when, or why. Not until the future eats the present, anyway. We know when it's too late.

Faith is a great thing, and really religious people would like us to believe that faith and knowing are the same thing, but I don't believe that myself. Because there are too many different ideas on the subject. What we know is this: When we die, one of two things happens. Either our souls and thoughts somehow survive the experience of dying or they don't. If they do, that opens up every possibility you could think of. If they don't, it's just blotto. The end.

once you get into cosmological shit like this, you got to throw away the instruction manual

The world, although well-lighted with fluorescents and incandescent bulbs and neon, is still full of odd dark corners and unsettling nooks and crannies.