Certainty Quotes

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Science is the outcome of being prepared to live without certainty and therefore a mark of maturity. It embraces doubt and loose ends. — A.C. Grayling
Science is uncertain. Theories are subject to revision; observations are open to a variety of interpretations, and scientists quarrel amongst themselves. This is disillusioning for… — Isaac Asimov
Good applied science in medicine, as in physics, requires a high degree of certainty about the basic facts at hand, and especially about their meaning,… — Lewis Thomas
Experiment is the sole source of truth. It alone can teach us something new; it alone can give us certainty. — Henri Poincare
[I]f in other sciences we should arrive at certainty without doubt and truth without error, it behooves us to place the foundations of knowledge in… — Roger Bacon
There is no permanence in doubt; it incites the mind to closer inquiry and experiment, from which, if rightly managed, certainty proceeds, and in this… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Whether moral and social phenomena are really exceptions to the general certainty and uniformity of the course of nature; and how far the methods, by… — John Stuart Mill
Whenever a man believes that he has the exact truth from God, there is in that man no spirit of compromise. He has not the… — Robert Green Ingersoll
The scientist believes in proof without certainty, the bigot in certainty without proof. — Ashley Montagu
Theory has nothing to do with a work of art. Pictures which are interpretable, and which contain a meaning, are bad pictures. A picture presents… — Gerhard Richter
Many of our brothers and sisters are 'baptized, but insufficiently evangelized.' In a number of cases, nations once rich in faith and in vocations are… — Pope Benedict XVI
A common fallacy in much of the adverse criticism to which science is subjected today is that it claims certainty, infallibility and complete emotional objectivity.… — Cyril Norman Hinshelwood
Clearly it is not reason that has failed. What has failed-as it has always failed-is the attempt to achieve certainty, to reach an absolute, to… — Allen Wheelis
One very important difference between color and monochromatic photography is this: in black and white you suggest; in color you state. Much can be implied… — Paul Outerbridge
Perseverance is more than endurance. It is endurance combined with absolute assurance and certainty that what we are looking for is going to happen. — Oswald Chambers
Absolute certainty is a privilege of uneducated minds and fanatics. - It is, for scientific folk, an unattainable ideal. — Cassius Jackson Keyser
I am not accustomed to saying anything with certainty after only one or two observations. — Andreas Vesalius
Since Christ Himself said in reference to the bread: "This is My Body," who will dare remain hesitant? And since with equal clarity He asserted:… — Cyril of Jerusalem
There are five dark matters and five lamps. Love of this world is darkness, and the fear of Allaah is its lamp. Sin is darkness,… — Abu Bakr
Know for a certainty that if men understood how terrible is even one solitary sin, they would rather be cast into a heated furnace, and… — Catherine of Genoa

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