Absolutes Quote by Stephen Schneider

Scientists do not believe in fundamental and absolute certainties. For the scientist, certainty is never an end, but a search; not the ordering of…

— Ashley Montagu

“If the universe was scientific and just left to itself, then we’d have statistical probabilities to rely on. But once people are involved it…

— Sara Sheridan

“science cannot even make probability judgements on”

— Richard Dawkins

Misunderstanding of probability may be the greatest of all impediments to scientific literacy.

— Stephen Jay Gould

We balance probabilities and choose the most likely. It is the scientific use of the imagination.

— Arthur Conan Doyle

All that belongs to human understanding, in this deep ignorance and obscurity, is to be sceptical, or at least cautious, and not to admit…

— David Hume

A scientist is never certain. ... We absolutely must leave room for doubt or there is no progress and there is no learning.

— Richard P. Feynman

Physics tells us observations can't be predicted absolutely. Rather, there's a range of possible observations each with a different probability.

— Robert Lanza

It is scientific only to say what is more likely and what less likely, and not to be proving all the time the possible…

— Richard P. Feynman

Science does not give us absolute and final certainty. It only gives us assurance within the limits of our mental abilities and the prevailing…

— Ludwig von Mises

We don't deal in absolutes. We deal in probabilities.

— Seth Klarman

The scientific imagination always restrains itself within the limits of probability.

— Thomas Huxley