Absolute certainty Quote by Carl Sagan

“Yet it is unassailably true that so long as we lack omniscience and do not know all of the future, all our generalizations are…

— Morris F. Cohen

Certainty is rarely if ever possible and we increase the likelihood of getting things wrong if we succumb to the hunger for it.

— Peter Elbow

Absolute certainty is a privilege of uneducated minds and fanatics. - It is, for scientific folk, an unattainable ideal.

— Cassius Jackson Keyser

The only certainty is uncertainty

— Pliny the Elder

The future is inherently uncertain.

— Manmohan Singh

Certainty is a cruel mindset. It hardens our minds against possibility.

— Ellen Langer

The one way of guaranteeing to fail is to assume that we will.

— Nicholas Stern

One thing you can rely on is that there will always be uncertainty.

— Ashleigh Brilliant

Men and governments must act to the best of their ability. There is no such thing as absolute certainty but there is assurance sufficient…

— John Stuart Mill

We never have 100 percent certainty. We never have it. If you wait until you have 100 percent certainty, something bad is going to…

— Gordon R. Sullivan

We think we know what we are doing. We have always thought so. We never seem to acknowledge that we have been wrong in…

— Michael Crichton

I am certain there is too much certainty in the world.

— Michael Crichton