Quotes About Uncertainty

but between reject and not—reject. You can decide that the probability that you are wrong is so small that you should not reject the hypothesis. You can decide that the probability that you are wrong is so large that you should reject the hypothesis. But with any probability short of zero that you are wrong—certainty rather than uncertainty—you cannot accept a hypothesis.

But in a cause-and-effect world, if we know the causes we can predict the effects. So "what is chance for the ignorant is not chance for the scientist. Chance is only the measure of our ignorance.

La palabra "riesgo" procede del italiano risicare, que significa "atreverse". En este sentido, el riesgo es más bien una elección que un destino.... La idea de la gestión de riesgos solo surge cuando las personas creen que hasta cierto punto son agentes libres.

I g-g-guess...I'm dead?" she heard her own voice call out, strangely high-pitched and thin. For a long time, she heard nothing else. And then: "Hi, Dead. I'm Dan.

Amy Cahill didn't believe in omens. But black snow was falling, the earth was rumbling beneath her feet, her brother was meowing, and her uncle Alistair was prancing on the beach in pink pajamas. She had to admit, the signs were not promising.

And the people - confused, embittered, hungry, fearful - will bow their heads and accept the inevitable. They will trade in their freedoms forever for the promise of security today.

Although we still live in an uncertain and violent world, it is important for us to be moving in the direction of a culture of love, wisdom, truth, justice and virtue envisaged by Peter Deunov.

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People who succeed in the stock market also accept periodic losses, setbacks, and unexpected occurrences. Calamitous drops do not scare them out of the game.

Remember, things are never clear until it's too late.

Don't feel bad about it," the sergeant said. "You never know when it's the real thing." Afterward he reflected on how he had been alone on the street, and how they came at once, unquestioningly, thinking that he needed them, and the memory of that moment remained with him always, like the lost innocence of a child.

Time was wiggy in so much dark.

Rules? You don't even know what game we're playing, mister.

Planning can be fun. If you hate planning, you're doing it wrong. Plan with a friend, make a map, embrace uncertainty, daydream, and go for a walk. Our ability to imagine, organize, and invent the future is a gift. Shift procrastination into playing with planning.

In life; when you expect good to happen, the bad happens and when you see the bad coming, then comes the good'' ''Never be overconfident about your expectations

Most falls aren't free -- there is always the tension, it seems to me, between what you are falling from and what you are falling to.

And now he was dead. She didn't know how, or what had killed him, just that his body had ceased to exist.

The affirmation of an intervention amidst all our doubt and uncertainty concerning its source thus represents the Christian idea that we have been marked by a life-giving event that invites us to passionately respond with our entire being. It is out of this that a deep and sustained questioning arises.

Christian faith teaches us, if we are sensitive and able to be taught, that the seemingly opposite and opposed realms of radical doubt and absolute certainty are reconciled in a knowing beyond knowledge. There is no doubt for the believer that God dwells with us (as an event), yet there is a deep uncertainty about who, what, or even if God is (as a being).

As we have seen, we ought to affirm our view of God while at the same time realizing that that view is inadequate.

the a/ theistic approach can be seen as a form of disbelieving what one believes, or rather, believing in God while remaining dubious concerning what one believes about God (a distinction that fundamentalism is unable to maintain).

If you ask me to play myself, I will not know what to do. I do not know who or what I am.

Not only can we not teach doctrinally approved solutions any more [which take roughly two years to be approved], the truth is, we don't even know all the problems!

What early Christianity meant by 'faith' (pistis) was initially nothing other than running ahead and clinging to a model or idea whose attainability was still uncertain. Faith is purely anticipatory, in the sense that it already has an effect when it mobilizes the existence of the anticipatory towards the goal through anticipation. In analogy for the placebo effect, one would have to call this the movebo effect.