Quotes About Uncertainty

He prays because he knows he doesn't control it. He's at the mercy of it.

If you gamble long enough, you'll always lose -- the gambler is always ruined.

At the edge of chaos, unexpected outcomes occur. The risk to survival is severe.

The risk is too great. A man cannot place too much faith in any one thing, neither a woman, nor a horse, nor a weapon, nor any single thing.

Sitting in the deserted law offices, Sanders had the feeling that he was all alone in the world, with nobody but Fernandez and the encoraching darkness. Things were happening quickly; this person he had never met before today was fast becoming a kind of lifeline for him.

Photographs provided a tangible reality to men who were far from home, fearful and tired; they were posed proofs of success, souvenirs to send to sweethearts and loved ones, or simply ways of remembering, of grasping a moment in a swift changing and uncertain world.

Inevitably, underlying instabilities begin to appear.

A day is like a whole life. You start out doing one thing, but end up doing something else, plan to run an errand, but never get there...And at the end of your life, your whole existence has that same haphazard quality, too. Your whole life has the same shape as a single day.

like a whole life. You start out doing one thing, but end up doing something else, plan to run an errand, but never get there.… And at the end of your life, your whole existence has that same haphazard quality, too. Your whole life has the same shape as a single day.

All major changes are like death," he said. "You can't see to the other side until you are there." And he closed his eyes.

All major changes are like death," he said. "You can't see to the other side until you are there." And

All major changes are like death," he said. "You can't see to the other side until you are there.

Over the radio, Eddie was saying, "I'm telling you, we should have tested first, Doc. Should have done it by the book. You don't come to a place with poisonous chickens if you're not sure your vehicles will hold up.

Heisenberg uncertainty principle: that whatever you studied you also changed. In the end, it became clear that all scientists were participants in a participatory universe which did not allow anyone to be a mere observer.

I am most heartily glad that I am not going to the dangerous and uncertain Black Hills.

But absence of proof is not proof of absence.

Consensus is invoked only in situations where the science is not solid enough.

But then, things never turn out the way you think they will.

Would you just check him? I'm pretty sure he's dead." "How do you know?" "He jumped from the twelfth floor. Would you just check him, make sure he's dead?

Nothing is obvious.

Story of our species, Malcom said, laughing. Everybody knows it's coming, but not so soon.

name. "I may not be," Cope said. "Religion explains what man cannot explain.

After all, the trouble with what the scientists said was that they were always saying something different. This year one idea, next year something else. Scientific opinion was ever changing

My point is, there is always a cause for fear. The cause may change over time, but the fear is always with us. Before