Quotes About Uncertainty

Enfermé dans le navire, d'où on n'échappe pas, le fou est confié à la rivière aux mille bras, à la mer aux mille chemins, à cette grande incertitude extérieure à tout. Il est prisonnier au milieu de la plus libre, de la plus ouverte des routes : solidement enchaîné à l'infini carrefour. Il est le Passager par excellence, c'est-à-dire le prisonnier du Passage.

It is the end of the era of knowledge.

The uncertainty of life got me thinking about the importance of constants in our lives.

I never expected to find myself here, on the edge of the continent--childless, possibly jobless, with broken bones and a broken marriage, citizen of a broken country. But here I am, and I must make something of it. That's really the only choice one has: make something of it, or don't.

The end of the world is easy. We'll survive it, or we won't. But if we do survive, the rest of life is waiting.

It made no sense, but nothing did at the moment, and at least this was a good crazy.

If the Light and the Dark were so absolute, why couldn't they give her absolute answers? Why did everything have to be so confused?

Remember that in change, no matter how strange or slight the chance, all hope lies.

They were twenty-seven already, in no time at all they'd be thirty, terrifying. No one knew what would happen then. Michelle couldn't imagine anything more than writing zine-ish memoirs and working in bookstores.

The quantum theory is based on the idea that there is a probability that all possible events, no matter how fantastic or silly, might occur.

The physicist Niels Bohr was fond of saying, "Prediction is very hard to do. Especially about the future

Before an observation is made, an object exists in all possible states simultaneously. To determine which state the object is in, we have to make an observation, which "collapses" the wave function, and the object goes into a definite state. The act of observation destroys the wave function, and the object now assumes a definite reality.

The lesson here is that it is very dangerous to bet against the future.

In other words, the process of observation determines the final state of the electron.

Nobel laureate Richard Feynman was fond of saying that no one really understands the quantum theory. Ironically, although the quantum theory is the most successful theory ever proposed by the human mind

CzÄ™sto siÄ™ twierdzi, ?e ze wszystkich teorii powstaÅ'ych w tym stuleciu najgÅ'upsza jest teoria kwantowa. Niektórzy uwa?ajÄ…, ?e na jej korzy?? przemawia wyÅ'Ä…cznie to, i? jest niepodwa?alnie poprawna.

The gentlemen in Berlin are gambling on me as if I were a prize hen. As for myself, I don't even know whether I'm going to lay another egg.

Aún hoy los físicos discuten sobre las implicaciones filosóficas de la teoría ondulatoria. ¿Cómo se puede estar en dos lugares al mismo tiempo? El premio Nobel Richard Feynman dijo una vez: «Creo que puedo decir, sin temor a equivocarme, que nadie entiende la mecánica cuántica».[1

Just thinking "What if?" can create a huge drama in our lives.

We become aware that we can die at any moment; we have just the present to be alive. The truth is that we don't know if we are going to die tomorrow. Who knows? We have the idea that we have many years in the future. But do we?

BilmediÄŸimiz ÅŸeylere bilmiyoruz demesini bilmek gerek.

If you know where you are going, you are not learning. (p. 16)

Nick wasn't sure what he thought about

El pensamiento científico es tal vez el mejor método disponible para avanzar a través de territorios impredecibles, desconocidos y complejos, porque nos hace más adaptables y creativos frente a la incertidumbre.