Certainty Quotes

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Just as the spectroscope opened up a new astronomy by enabling the astronomer to determine some of the constituents of which distant stars are composed,… — Richard Dixon Oldham
[Mathematics] is security. Certainty. Truth. Beauty. Insight. Structure. Architecture. I see mathematics, the part of human knowledge that I call mathematics, as one thing-one great,… — Paul Halmos
Facts are certainly the solid and true foundation of all sectors of nature study ... Reasoning must never find itself contradicting definite facts; but reasoning… — Rene Antoine Ferchault de Reaumur
The occurrence of any event where the chances are beyond one in ten followed by 50 zeros is an event which we can state with… — Emile Borel
Making no mistakes is what establishes the certainty of victory, for it means conquering an enemy that is already defeated. — Sun Tzu
...it is absurd to try to confine our knowledge and belief to matters which are conclusively established by sound deductive arguments. The demand for certainty… — J. L. Mackie
There are many levels of life which we cannot see and know, yet which certainly exist. There is a larger world, vast enough to include… — Manly Hall
There are many paths to enlightenment. Some of us who have expanded to a degree of illumination have thereafter preached the dogmatic certainty of one… — Thaddeus Golas
The most distinctive characteristic which differentiates mathematics from the various branches of empirical science, and which accounts for its fame as the queen of the… — Carl Gustav Hempel
Peoples of the entire world need to hear these words. Their conscience needs to grow in the certainty that Someone exists who holds in His… — Pope John Paul II
You see, one thing is, I can live with doubt and uncertainty and not knowing. I have approximate answers and possible beliefs and different degrees… — Richard P. Feynman
To believe with certainty, we must begin with doubting. — StanisÅ‚aw I LeszczyÅ„ski
Whoever builds his faith exclusively on demonstrative proofs and deductive arguments, builds a faith on which it is impossible to rely. For he is affected… — Ibn Arabi
The fact is there is nothing that you can trust; and that is a terrible fact, whether you like it or not. Psychologically there is… — Jiddu Krishnamurti
The only certainty about writing and trying to be a writer is that it has to be done, not dreamed of or planned and never… — Janet Frame
As a new mother, I want to give my children the best start in life but millions of children affected with AIDS don't live with… — Claudia Schiffer
It is a certainty that Keegan would not have agreed to return unless Mike Ashley had committed to sanctioning a mammoth spending spree. The downside,… — Pete Gill
Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority: still… — Lord Acton
...the proposed air force and army experiments were designed so that many animals would suffer and die without any certainty that this suffering and death… — Peter Singer
We all return. It is this certainty that gives meaning to life and it does not make the slightest difference whether or not in a… — Gustav Mahler

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