Absolute certainty Quote by Cassius Jackson Keyser

“Humans may crave absolute certainty; they may aspire to it; they may pretend, as partisans of certain religions do, to have attained it. But…

— Carl Sagan

Scientists do not believe in fundamental and absolute certainties. For the scientist, certainty is never an end, but a search; not the ordering of…

— Ashley Montagu

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

— Ellen Langer

The only certainty is uncertainty

— Pliny the Elder

Science does not give us absolute and final certainty. It only gives us assurance within the limits of our mental abilities and the prevailing…

— Ludwig von Mises

The very foundation of science is to keep the door open to doubt. Precisely because we keep questioning everything, especially our own premises, we…

— Carlo Rovelli

Certainty is the enemy of mankind. If you're certain about everything, you have the Inquisition, you have Nazis and you have - that certainty…

— Anthony Hopkins

Certainty is the most vivid condition of ignorance and the most necessay condition for knowledge.

— Kedar Joshi

“There is no such thing as absolute certainty, but there is assurance sufficient for the purposes of human life. —JOHN STUART MILL”

— Brian Christian

A lot of people hear me attacking their certainty. I don't have any interest in doing that. I'm interested in penetrating the meaning of…

— John Shelby Spong

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

I have devoted my life to uncertainty. Certainty is the death of wisdom, thought, creativity.

— Shekhar Kapur