Uncertainty Quotes - Page 11

• Science has a culture that is inherently cautious and that is normally not a bad thing. You could even say conservative, because of the peer review process and because the scientific method prizes uncertainty and penalises anyone who goes out on any sort of a limb that is not held in place by abundant and well-documented evidence.

  Al Gore

  Culture, Peers, Peer Review

  "Al Gore's views on climate change, extreme weather and Keystone XL". Interview with Suzanne Goldenberg, www.theguardian.com. November 14, 2012.

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• Exploring the unknown requires tolerating uncertainty.

  Brian Greene

  Exploring

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

  Luis Gutierrez

  Ignorance, People, Different

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• I trust every single person around me, and if I feel even a whiff of uncertainty I won't have that person around me.

  Leona Lewis

  Feels, Single Person, Persons

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Change is always tough. Even for those who see themselves as agents of change, the process of starting a new thing can cause times of disorientation, uncertainty and insecurity.

  Joyce Meyer

  Motivational, Insecurity, Agents

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• Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts.

  Daniel Patrick Moynihan

  Education, Truth, Freedom

  Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Steven R. Weisman (2010). “Daniel Patrick Moynihan: A Portrait in Letters of an American Visionary”, p.2, PublicAffairs

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• I'm in the camp that needs to discover and take risks, sometimes it's with the promise of something special and new, sometimes it's to stay awake, either way it's much more stressful with all the uncertainty but worth the pain in the end.

  Karen O

  Pain, Risk, Promise

  "Karen O’s Psycho Opera Will Be A ‘Psychedelic Ride Laced With Catharsis’". www.huffingtonpost.com. August 26, 2011.

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• Life is full of change and uncertainty. We know this. We experience it on a daily basis.

  Carre Otis

  Life Is, Bases, Knows

  "In the Face of Change" by Carre Otis, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 3, 2012.

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• In an ecology of love, people can relate in trust and face the future without fear. They do not need to play it safe. They can take uncertainty in their stride.

  Jonathan Sacks

  Play, People, Needs

  "An Ecology of Love" by Chief Rabbi Lord Sacks, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 21, 2012.

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• We are biological creatures. We are born, we live, we die. There is no transcendent purpose to existence. At best we are creatures of reason, and by using reason we can cure ourselves of emotional excess. Purged of both hope and fear, we find courage in the face of helplessness, insignificance and uncertainty.

  Jonathan Sacks

  Emotional, Purpose, Excess

  "An Ecology of Love" by Chief Rabbi Lord Sacks, www.huffingtonpost.com. July, 21, 2012.

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• A perfect storm is in the making: financial uncertainty, economic downturn, government cuts, rising unemployment and a future that looks less clear the more we try to fathom it.

  Jonathan Sacks

  Cutting, Government, Perfect

  "The Leader of the Future Comes From the Past" by Chief Rabbi Lord Sacks, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 26, 2012.

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• Turns out Picasso's passion for uncertainty, mystery, and the thrill of life never ended.

  Jerry Saltz

  Passion, Thrill, Mystery

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• Most business people today are not going to invest in the uncertainty that exists in America.

  Howard Schultz

  America, People, Today

  "Howard Schultz: 'We Can't Wait for Washington' and CEOs Need to Show Confidence in the Economy" by Lauren Effron, abcnews.go.com. September 7, 2011.

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• We must become more comfortable with probability and uncertainty.

  Nate Silver

  Marketing, Probability, Comfortable

  Nate Silver (2012). “The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail-but Some Don't”, p.20, Penguin

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• Much of the uncertainty of law is not an unfortunate accident: it is of immense social value.

  Sonia Sotomayor

  Social Values, Law, Unfortunate

  "Morning Bell: The Judicial Oath vs Sonia Sotomayor" by Conn Carroll, www.dailysignal.com. July 13, 2009.

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• In conditions of uncertainty, humans, like other animals, herd together for protection.

  James Surowiecki

  Animal, Together, Protection

  "That Uncertain Feeling" by James Surowiecki, www.newyorker.com. September 1, 2008.

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• Mathematical reasoning may be regarded rather schematically as the exercise of a combination of two facilities, which we may call intuition and ingenuity.

  Alan Turing

  Exercise, Two, Intuition

  "Systems of Logic Based on Ordinals". Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society, Series 2, Volume 45, 1939.

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• It's the uncertainty, the challenge and the willingness to put it all on the line that draws a lot of people to climb mountains. That can also apply to a lot of other challenges in life, whether it's running for office, starting a family, going to grad school or taking all of your cash and assets and starting a business.

  Mark Udall

  Running, School, People

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• Quantum mechanics brought an unexpected fuzziness into physics because of quantum uncertainty, the Heisenberg uncertainty principle. String theory does so again because a point particle is replaced by a string, which is more spread out.

  Edward Witten

  Uncertainty Principle, Principles, Doe

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• Accepting that the world is full of uncertainty and ambiguity does not and should not stop people from being pretty sure about a lot of things.

  Julian Baggini

  People, Doe, World

  "What is this foolish lust for uncertainty?" by Julian Baggini, www.theguardian.com. October 28, 2011.

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• The mark of a mature, psychologically healthy mind is indeed the ability to live with uncertainty and ambiguity, but only as much as there really is. Uncertainty is no virtue when the facts are clear, and ambiguity is mere obfuscation when more precise terms are applicable.

  Julian Baggini

  Healthy, Mind, Obfuscation

  "What is this foolish lust for uncertainty?" by Julian Baggini, www.theguardian.com. October 28, 2011.

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• Uncertainty is a permanent part of the leadership landscape. It never goes away.

  Andy Stanley

  Landscape, Permanent

  Andy Stanley (2011). “Next Generation Leader”, p.80, Multnomah

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• ...in the business of writing what one accumulates is not expertise but uncertainties. Which is but another name for craft.

  Joseph Brodsky

  Writing, Names, Crafts

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• We are nearly always longing for an easy religion, easy to understand and easy to follow; a religion with no mystery, no insoluble problems,no snags; a religion that would allow us to escape from our miserable human condition; a religion in which contact with God spares us all strife, all uncertainty,all suffering and all doubt; in short, a religion without a cross

  Paul Tournier

  Doubt, Suffering, Mystery

  Paul Tournier (1982). “Reflections: a personal guide for life's most crucial questions”, Westminster John Knox Press

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• In physics the truth is rarely perfectly clear, and that is certainly universally the case in human affairs. Hence, what is not surrounded by uncertainty cannot be the truth.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Physics, Affair, Truth Is

  Richard P. Feynman (2015). “The Quotable Feynman”, p.290, Princeton University Press

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