Certainty Quotes

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Sooner or later you must move down an unknown road that leads beyond the range of the imagination, and the only certainty is that the… — Bruce Catton
Such certainty is beautiful, but uncertainty is more beautiful still — Wislawa Szymborska
The very foundation of science is to keep the door open to doubt. Precisely because we keep questioning everything, especially our own premises, we are… — Carlo Rovelli
Science asks no questions about the ontological pedigree or a priori character of a theory, but is content to judge it by its performance; and… — Chauncey Wright
I feel, sometimes, as the renaissance man must have felt in finding new riches at every point and in the certainty that unexplored areas of… — Polykarp Kusch
One certainty when you travel is the moment you arrive in a foreign country, the American dollar will fall like a stone. — Erma Bombeck
If one puts an infinite number of monkeys in front of typewriters, and lets them clap away, there is a certainty that one of them… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Arithmetic is where the content lies, and not logic; but logic prompts certainty, and not arithmetic. — David Berlinski
You know nothing about Hope, that immortal, delicious maiden forever courted forever propitious, whom fools have called deceitful, as if it were Hope that carried… — George Eliot
Speculation and the exploration of ideas beyond what we know with certainty are what lead to progress. — Lisa Randall
The disciples are drawn to the high altars with magnetic certainty, knowing that a great Presence hovers over the ranges ... You were within the… — Ansel Adams
There's no certainty to the next couple of years, but people are paying attention now. And I want to put out a record when people… — Andrew McMahon
First, the probable cause of AIDS has been found: a variant of a known human cancer virus. Second, not only has the agent been identified,… — Margaret Heckler
Can you imagine 4,000 years passing, and you're not even a memory? Think about it, friends. It's not just a possibility. It is a certainty. — Jean Shepherd
Certainty a strange Ferris wheel of a statement! — John Allen Paulos
If the Bible is uniquely and inerrantly inspired, then we have certainty; we may know real truth about God — J. Sidlow Baxter
Faith is a process of leaping into the abyss not on the basis of any certainty about where we shall land, but rather on the… — Carter Heyward
Mystery is gone to the certainty of technological principles. So the real terror, the real aggression against life comes in the form of the pursuit… — Godfrey Reggio
That which is true must always remain true, though the applications may change greatly from generation to generation. It is the absence of such fundamental… — John Andreas Widtsoe
That would be the death of anyone - to recognize false hopes with a certainty. One mustn't know that. If it is offered, refuse! — Jesse Ball

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