Quotes About Uncertainty

Are people so unhappy when they love?" "Yes, Christine, when they love and are not sure of being loved.

Sensual passions are your first enemy. Your second is called Discontent. Your third is Hunger & Thirst. Your fourth is called Craving. Fifth is Sloth & Drowsiness. Sixth is called Terror. Your seventh is Uncertainty. Hypocrisy & Stubbornness, your eighth. Gains, Offerings, Fame, & Status wrongly gained, and whoever would praise self & disparage others. That, Namuci, is your enemy, the Dark One's commando force. A coward can't defeat it, but one having defeated it gains bliss.

Anxiety, unlike real fear, is always caused by uncertainty.

Dreams that do come true can be as unsettling as those that don't.

Just, you never know what the next day is going to bring. That goes for football, goes for off the field, and I gave up a long time ago trying to predict the future and trying to deal with things I couldn't deal with.

Muchos traders están tan temerosos de perder un posible movimiento del mercado que no se atreven a dedicar tiempo a reenfocar sus planes de trading. No se dan cuenta de que un riesgo mucho mayor es perder de vista sus planes y hacer trading a tontas y a locas.

I have too much to lose, she said, if I cross that line. Like what? I said. She could not think of anything that day so she said she'd get back to me. Since then I've been thinking what I would lose if I cross my line & I haven't come up with anything either. There's always another line somewhere.

Hoping to Fall Out: Leaning out as far as she can, hoping she'll fall soon, so she can stop worrying about whether it will happen or not.

Writing of Pushkin, Nabokov once observed quite accurately that his subject was the threefold formula of human life: the irretrievability of the past, the insatiability of the present, and the unforeseeability of the future.

Immensely simplified, quantum physics has two rules: Very small things don't have locations, we just have probabilities of where they are. The first rule only works if these very small things don't interact with their environment.

is uncertain' or that 'anything goes'. In fact, it is a clear mathematical statement. It reflects the way that different aspects of the physical world are intimately connected at the quantum level. Its best-known formulation is that the more accurately you know the position of a quantum particle, the less accurately you know its momentum.†† It is impossible to know both perfectly at the same time.

Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle is one of the most misunderstood parts of quantum theory, a doorway through which all sorts of charlatans and purveyors of tripe8 can force their philosophical musings.

In engineering or medical science, a deep understanding of uncertainty can be a matter of life and death. In politics, over-confidence is often the norm; uncertainty is seen as weakness when really it is a vital part of decision making. In this respect, science delivers an important lesson in humility. In

Science is the enemy of the certain

Heisenberg removed the conceit that the workings of Nature should necessarily accord with common sense.

WHATEVER happens tomorrow, one thing is certain; it must not be allowed to look after itself.

Mr Kline," the voice said. "Would you mind putting Mlinko on?" "Mlinko seems to be dead," said Kline. "Appears or is?" "Both," said Kline

In my worst moments, it seemed the state not only of me, but of the whole world, with all of us on the verge of turning around and finding the dead behind us... do your worst. Disrupt my certainty, try to fool me, make me believe. Get me to believe there is nothing dead behind me.

Anything can happen: anything. Or nothing. Who can say? The world, monstrous, is made that way, and in the end consumes us all. Who am I, administrated or no, to have the audacity to survive it?

There has, I fear, developed the worst of needs, the need to know, coupled reluctantly with an awareness that I probably will, in fact, never know.

Every time you think you have the world figured, trust me, that's just when the world's got you figured and is about to spring and break your back

The world is a strange place , thought Haupt, alone in the dark, almost unbearably so. And yet, it is the only place I have. And I'm not even entirely sure I have it.

What was the truth? he wondered. How important was it to know? And once he knew, what then?

How much weirder, thought Kline, is it possible for my life to get? And then he pushed the thought down and tried to ignore it, afraid of what the answer might be.