Quotes About Uncertainty

The scientist should treasure the riddles he can't solve, not explain them away at the outset.

The Treasury has enough trouble with forecasts even when they are trying to get them right.

You just never know when somebody's gonna die. It could happen at any moment so you've got to really treat everybody that way. Just really let everybody know how you feel about them.

Every threat needs to be taken as: 'This is the one; this is the real threat.' That's how we focus on things in counterterrorism. You never know which terrorist threat is the real one. And you treat every one as though this could be it; this could be the big attack.

Nobody could tell us or really had a very good idea, if there were a massive release of radiation, what kind of medical treatment people were going to need and this or that, or, indeed, whether there would be medical personnel around.

I had kept notes during my cancer treatment, but I wasn't sure what my outcome was going to be. A part of me wasn't sure if I would make it into a book. If it was going to be morbid, I wouldn't want to tell it.

I got 'Munich' after I had done 'In Treatment' in Israel, which was very successful. But, when I actually shot it, nobody knew it was going to be sold all over the world and be so successful.

My brain knows best-before dates are a con; my panicky gut treats them like a nuclear countdown.

Before we took down the tree each year, Dad would always say a prayer that we would be together the next Christmas. I cling to that prayer, which serves as a reminder that it's important to be grateful in the present for the people you love because, well, you never know.

After Star Trek, I was with the top agencies, but producers and directors did not know what to do with me.

Hope is like a harebell trembling from its birth.

With risk, sometimes you have tremendous success, sometimes not so much.

The best scientific evidence suggests temperatures are rising, and the best scientific evidence suggests man-made anthropogenic carbon emissions have some substantial thing to do with that. However, does that mean the trend will continue forever? We don't know.

The future will be determined in part by happenings that it is impossible to foresee; it will also be influenced by trends that are now existent and observable.

An actor is always looking for something. When your luck improves, trends change, you get one of those roles that do very well, sometimes even your worst work becomes a super success. So one can never predict what will happen tomorrow.

I turn to the 'Telegraph's' obituaries page with trepidation.

If you don't have nerves and a little trepidation about any new project, then I don't think you're really alive.

In my teens, I eyed my adulthood with trepidation, as if stalked by a stranger - one who would seize control as if by demonic possession and regard my fledgling incarnation with contempt.

That was the only trepidation I had about 'Will & Grace.' It had nothing to do with the sexuality of the character. It was more, 'This could be the next 7 to 10 years of my life.'

As a writer, you live in permanent self-doubt; you're on permanent trial.

I went to Borussia Dortmund on trial with a bag and some clothes, not knowing what my next move was going to be.

The reason for my age being messed up in the records is that when I first appeared for the under-14 trials, I myself really did not know my exact age.

Someone 'big' will get thrown out of their Trials or at the Olympics. I would bet my house on it.

Even today, I've no idea what the truth is, or what I did with it.