Certainty Quote by Arthur Conan Doyle

...while the individual man is an insoluble puzzle, in the aggregate he becomes a mathematical certainty.

— Arthur Conan Doyle

While the individual man is an insoluble puzzle, in the aggregate he becomes a mathematical certainty. You can, for example, never foretell what any…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

A great man, who was convinced that the truths of political and moral science are capable of the same certainty as those that form…

— Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de Condorcet

“whatever you are feeling right now, there is a mathematical certainty that someone is feeling that exact thing. This is not to say you…

— Neil Hilborn

Innumeracy and pseudoscience are often associated, in part because of the ease with which mathematical certainty can be invoked, to bludgeon the innumerate into…

— John Allen Paulos

“Once you have mathematical certainty there is nothing left to do or to understand. There will be nothing left but to bottle up your…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

A geometrical theory in physical interpretation can never be validated with mathematical certainty ... ; like any other theory of empirical science, it can…

— Carl Gustav Hempel

I have a mathematical certainty that the future will confirm my assertion that aerial warfare will be the most important element in future wars,…

— Giulio Douhet

Society does not exist for itself, but for the individual; and man goes into it, not to lose, but to find himself.

— Phillips Brooks

The history of every individual man should be a Bible.

— Novalis

“A new book was not one of a number of similar objects, but was like an individual man, unmatched, and with no cause of…

— Marcel Proust

The individual, man as a man, man as a brain, if you like, interests me more than what he makes, because I've noticed that…

— Marcel Duchamp