- Physics
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- Nov 07, 2020
Uncertainty Quotes
Living with what isn't settled.
These quotes explore uncertainty from a scientific angle - measurement limits and indeterminate values - alongside broader worry about institutions holding steady. It shares ground with Fear quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Random distributions are not good things, because people are risk-averse, and this risk adversely affects their welfare. If you get too much price uncertainty, all kinds of long-term, mutually beneficial contracts can't be entered into.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
Certainty is the mother of quiet and repose, and uncertainty the cause of variance and contentions.
- Knowledge
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- Nov 07, 2020
In essence, capitalist systems are a mechanism by which economies may generate growth in knowledge - with much uncertainty in the process, owing to the incompleteness of knowledge.
- Optimism
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- Nov 07, 2020
One misconception is that entrepreneurs love risk. Actually, we all want things to go as we expect. What you need is a blind optimism and a tolerance for uncertainty.
- Business
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- Nov 07, 2020
Uncertainty is bad for business.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was 8, I began to study ballet. In seventh grade, my mother took me into New York to study at the School of American Ballet. I loved ballet - its precision, the escape from uncertainty, and the music.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
We live in a very uncertain world, and I think that uncertainty of itself generates an environment which we should not make a decision that deprives future generations of the deterrent effect that the nuclear weapons have provided for us and for almost all of my life.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
I identified with Pip from 'Great Expectations,' especially when I was younger; I had the same kind of gaucheness and uncertainty.
- Nov 07, 2020
Uncertainty! fell demon of our fears! The human soul that can support despair, supports not thee.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
2011 was a year in which events rarely turned out as predicted, and when much of the world seemed shrouded in turmoil and uncertainty. It was difficult for government analysts back in Washington to know just where they were on the map, let alone where they were heading.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
All good art, to me, is uncertainty.
- Remember
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- Nov 07, 2020
'In Utero' was the first time I'd made an album that reached into the dark side. I remember the conflict and the uncertainty. I remember all those things when I hear 'Pennyroyal Tea.'
- Emigrate
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- Nov 07, 2020
Peru is a country where more than half the people would emigrate if given the chance. That's half the population that is willing to abandon everything they know for the uncertainty of a life in a foreign land, in another language.
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
Faith means living with uncertainty - feeling your way through life, letting your heart guide you like a lantern in the dark.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
We see that hyperactivity and reward areas are important when the bubble's rising. People getting caught up in it. We also see areas involving mentalizing, which means thinking about other people: Who's buying? Who's selling? Do they know something? We see emotional areas before the crash that indicate a sense of uncertainty or dread.
- Forecasts
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- Nov 07, 2020