Adventure Quote by Herbert Feigl Download Open image ““The quest for absolute certainty is an immature, if not infantile, trait of thinking.”” — Herbert Feigl ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Adventure Doubt Scientific method Scientism
“Only those who doubt pursue certainty; those who dissimulate certainness, only nurture illusion.” — Alessandro Parisi Copy Share Image
“All certainty that comes after the 'original sin' of dismantling the matter-of-fact world full of routine and short of reflection must be a manufactured… — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
“those who feel certainty are stupid and those with any imagination and understanding are filled with doubt and indecision.” — Bathroom Readers' Institute Copy Share Image
“Belief is like that, a circle, and often I find that the seemingly simplistic explanations from childhood for the unexplainable have merit, maybe more… — Frances A. Washburn Copy Share Image
“Defeasible beliefs provide the provisional certainty necessary to navigate an uncertain world.” — John Brockman Copy Share Image
“Certainty is the most vivid condition of ignorance and the most necessary condition for knowledge.” — Kedar Joshi Copy Share Image
“One learns by doing a thing; for though you think you know it, you have no certainty until you try.” — Sophocles Copy Share Image
“Never perceive anything as being inevitable or predestined. The only absolute is uncertainty.” — Lionel Suggs Copy Share Image
“but it is a trait in the perversity of human nature to reject the obvious and the ready, for the far-distant and equivocal.” — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
I'm trying to write a film with my friend. I'd love to get the thrill of speaking actors making my work even funnier. — Russell Howard Copy Share Image
I painted the words "GREAT ADVENTURE" in Beijing, Dallas, San Francisco, Copenhagen, and Japan. What it means to me is completely different to everybody… — Ben Eine Copy Share Image
I've used the Phoenix Centrifuge to replicate what the body's going to go through on the flight up. I've also done some gravity tests… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
I have lifted my plane . . . for perhaps a thousand flights and I have never felt her wheels glide from the Earth… — Beryl Markham Copy Share Image
I am attracted to looking at the different things language can mean even in one sometimes quite ordinary utterance. Writing is partly about listening… — Rae Armantrout Copy Share Image
What a thrill. You know you've entered new territory when you realise that your outfit cost more than your film. — Jessica Yu Copy Share Image
“So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned by a… — Alexander Supertramp Chris McCandless Copy Share Image
A common fallacy in much of the adverse criticism to which science is subjected today is that it claims certainty, infallibility and complete emotional… — Cyril Norman Hinshelwood Copy Share Image
“Exactly. I think the original tantric Buddhists took notice of was some very wise old people who never studied in their youth, but took… — Joe Niemczura Copy Share Image
As an adventurer...I try to protect against the downside. I make sure I have covered as many eventualities as I can. In the end,… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
“Love can give you such happiness, then can break the very heart it filled, leaving a hole that can never be fixed or protected… — Kevin McLeod Copy Share Image
“It always gave Wolf a peculiar thrill thus to tighten his grip upon his stick, thus to wrap himself more closely in his faded… — John Cowper Powys Copy Share Image