Analyzing Quote by Robert A. Burton

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

First, the only certainty is that there is no certainty. Second, every decision, as a consequence, is a matter of weighing probabilities. Third, despite…

— Robert Rubin

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

— Ellen Langer

The only certainty is uncertainty

— Pliny the Elder

Whatever way uncertainty is approached, probability is the only sound way to think about it.

— Dennis Lindley

Science is the organized skepticism in the reliability of expert opinion

— Anonymous

We have to learn how scientists arrive at decisions. Once you use the scientific method, it doesn't mean that your decisions will be perfect.…

— Jacque Fresco

There will be very few occasions when you are absolutely certain about anything. You will consistently be called upon to make decisions with limited…

— Andy Stanley

I think that when we know that we actually do live in uncertainty, then we ought to admit it; it is of great value…

— Richard P. Feynman

Absolute certainty is a privilege of uneducated minds and fanatics. - It is, for scientific folk, an unattainable ideal.

— Cassius Jackson Keyser

Some people, both scientists and religious people, deal with uncertainty by being certain. That is dangerous in the fundamentalists and it is dangerous in…

— Robert Winston

“This idea that in order to make a decision you need to focus on the consequences (which you can know) rather than the probability…

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb