Quotes About Uncertainty

Feeling in love (or lust) and fear feel a lot alike. They both give you that anxious butterfly feeling in your stomach, a sense of excitement, and a general unease physically and mentally. It's easy to confuse love with fear.

So many of us find ourselves saying, "but he was so great!" Yes, and the people who got on the Titanic thought they were going on vacation. Things changed and it's important to remember that they did.

A good indication that it's not is if you're only staying with What's His Name because you're scared.

What sucks even more is getting hung up on the what is he thinking and feeling? shit. Does he miss me as much as I miss him? No. If he did, you'd know it by his actions. Is he seeing someone else? Maybe. Probably. Or at least he's planning on it. Again-it sucks, but if you get real about it you'll realize that knowing the answers to these questions still doesn't change the fact that your relationship didn't make the cut.

I'm going to just tell them now that I love them, blow them in the bathroom or whatever impulsive thing that you know you shouldn't do, because that will either make him want to be with me more or bail, but at least I'll know now!

As the late John Keel said, "To hell with the answer. What is the question?"     Alien

There is always something.

elbowed Danny. "You think Shields is the father of that baby?

Complexity offers refuge from choice, and thus from action. In most situations, most of us would prefer to do nothing. Sic transit gloria mundi.

I don't recognize the world anymore, Marshall. Maybe when you stop feeling at home in the world, it's time to leave it.

diffident voice. "You're not going to believe this.

He began to wonder if there was something wrong with him.

I want to like Helen Flynn, but there might not be anything there to actually like.

well, I don't think I'm equipped to raise our daughter.

Logic said it was impossible but logic wasn't doing too well here lately, was it?

If the all-powerful observer measured a particle and found it at position x, then the particle had to be given a small push by the observer, in the very act of observing. That was Heisenberg's uncertainty principle. You could not tell precisely how much of a push the observer had given the wretched particle, so its future position was somewhat uncertain.

Still, he reminded himself, absence of evidence is not evidence of absence

The more slender your grip on reality, the more dangerous the world becomes. On the other hand, the more rational the world you find yourself in, the more carefully it must be questioned.

It is a no that means maybe, and the more passionate the no, the more definite the maybe.

He was taken to hospital. I never saw him again, and he never opened his mouth.

Some time on the next day we would be free, or we would be dead.

I was sure he'd calculated the risks, and decided it was safe. And every day of my life was a risk.

There was hope and fearful excitement in the new.

Feynman once said that if you understand quantum theory, you don't. I had no idea what Lisa was talking about.