Uncertainty Quotes

Medicine is a science of uncertainty and an art of probability.

There's a certain kind of scepticism that can't bear uncertainty.

I believe the most solemn duty of the American president is to protect the American people. If America shows uncertainty and weakness in this decade, the world will drift toward tragedy. This will not happen on my watch.

This implies that the laws governing organic cohesion, the organization leading from the part to the whole, represent a biological uncertainty, indeed an uncertainty of the first order.

The quest for certainty blocks the search for meaning. Uncertainty is the very condition to impel man to unfold his powers.

When there's uncertainty they always think there's another shoe to fall. There is no other shoe to fall.

In this era of uncertainty and conflict, the United States - blessed with the world's strongest military, most ingenious economy, and most tolerant society - remains a model and leader to the world.

I don't think we should tell them what we're going to do in advance. Let them think. Worry. Wonder. Uncertainty is the most chilling thing of all.

Terrorism is a psychological warfare. Terrorists try to manipulate us and change our behavior by creating fear, uncertainty, and division in society.

Uncertainty is a sign of humility, and humility is just the ability or the willingness to learn.

Information is the resolution of uncertainty.

Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty.

I look at decisions like - it's like an Indiana Jones movie. The guy comes to a rope ladder, and he's being chased. There's uncertainty on the other side, but he knows when he gets to the other side, he's going to take his machete and cut the rope ladder behind him. He has no retreat.

Quantum mechanics brought an unexpected fuzziness into physics because of quantum uncertainty, the Heisenberg uncertainty principle.

If you just watch a teenager, you see a lot of uncertainty.

Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty.

Fear comes from uncertainty. When we are absolutely certain, whether of our worth or worthlessness, we are almost impervious to fear.

If we must not act save on a certainty, we ought not to act on religion, for it is not certain. But how many things we do on an uncertainty, sea voyages, battles!

The power of the lawyer is in the uncertainty of the law.

I used to be scared of uncertainty; now I get a high out of it.

So in my uncertainty, I went to graduate school and there it all happened.

Investors don't like uncertainty.

There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing.

I never appreciated 'positive heroes' in literature. They are almost always cliches, copies of copies, until the model is exhausted. I prefer perplexity, doubt, uncertainty, not just because it provides a more 'productive' literary raw material, but because that is the way we humans really are.

Although our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty, our nature often finds uncertainty fascinating.

There is so much uncertainty out there, and the government in Washington doesn't seem to get it. What's needed is a new business environment.

Uncertainty and fear and ignorance about immigrants, about people who are different, has a history as old as our Nation.

Without the element of uncertainty, the bringing off of even, the greatest business triumph would be dull, routine, and eminently unsatisfying.

If you aren't in the moment, you are either looking forward to uncertainty, or back to pain and regret.

We measure our days out in steps of uncertainty not turning to see how far we've come. And peer down the highway from here to eternity and reach out for love on the run.