Inspect every piece of pseudoscience and you will find a security blanket, a thumb to suck, a skirt to hold. What have we to offer in exchange? Uncertainty! Insecurity! | |
–– Isaac Asimov | |
Quoted by: John Allen Paulos | |
From his book: “Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences“ | |
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Posts Tagged ‘Uncertainty’
What You’ll Find
Posted in Philosophy, Quotes, Science and Learning, tagged Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy And Its Consequences, Insecurity, Isaac Asimov, John Allen Paulos, Philosophy, Pseudoscience, Quotes, Science, Uncertainty on October 3, 2021| Leave a Comment »
I Welcome The Questions
Posted in Faith, Philosophy, Quotes, Science and Learning, tagged Big Bang, Carl Sagan, Cosmology, Creation, Doppler Effect, Earth, God, Philosophy, Questions, Quotes, Redshift, Sun, Uncertainty, Universe on March 5, 2021| Leave a Comment »
But we don’t yet know whether the Universe is open or closed. More than that, there are a few astronomers who doubt that the redshift of distant galaxies is due to the doppler effect, who are skeptical of the expanding Universe and the Big Bang. Perhaps our descendants will regard our present ignorance with as much sympathy as we feel to the ancients for not knowing the Earth went around the Sun. If the general picture, however, of a Big Bang followed by an expanding Universe is correct, what happened before that? Was the Universe devoid of all matter and then the matter suddenly somehow created, how did that happen? In many cultures, the customary answer is that a God or Gods created the Universe out of nothing. But if we wish to pursue this question courageously, we must of course ask the next question: where did God come from? If we decide that this is an unanswerable question, why not save a step and conclude that the origin of the Universe is an unanswerable question? Or, if we say that God always existed, why not save a step, and conclude that the Universe always existed? That there’s no need for a creation, it was always here. These are not easy questions. Cosmology brings us face to face with the deepest mysteries, questions that were once treated only in religion and myth. | |
— Carl Sagan | |
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Are You Sure?
Posted in Philosophy, Quotes, tagged Certainty, Insecurity, John Allen Paulos, Philosophy, Quotes, Security, Uncertainty on September 5, 2020| 2 Comments »
Uncertainty is the only certainty there is, and knowing how to live with insecurity is the only security. | |
― John Allen Paulos | |
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2012 | How Did We Get Here? |
2011 | Labor Day Weekend Mishmash |
More, More, More | |
We Will Get Through This
Posted in Philosophy, Quotes, tagged Philosophy, Quotes, Uncertainty, United States, Warren Buffett on April 21, 2020| Leave a Comment »
We always live in an uncertain world. What is certain is that the United States will go forward over time. | |
— Warren Buffett | |
[And the whole world will get through this, too… — kmab] | |
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2011 | Giving |
None Absolutely Certain
Posted in Education, Philosophy, Quotes, Science and Learning, tagged Doubt, Dr. Richard P. Feynman, Philosophy, Quotes, Science, Scientific Knowledge, Uncertainty on October 17, 2019| Leave a Comment »
The scientist has a lot of experience with ignorance and doubt and uncertainty, and this experience is of very great importance, I think. When a scientist doesn’t know the answer to a problem, he is ignorant. When he has a hunch as to what the result is, he is uncertain. And when he is pretty darn sure of what the result is going to be, he is in some doubt. We have found it of paramount importance that in order to progress we must recognize the ignorance and leave room for doubt. Scientific knowledge is a body of statements of varying degrees of certainty – some most unsure, some nearly sure, none absolutely certain. | |
— Dr. Richard P. Feynman | |
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Uncertain Times
Posted in Philosophy, Quotes, tagged Philosophy, Quotes, Time, Uncertainty, Warren Buffett on January 25, 2019| Leave a Comment »
You know, people talk about this being an uncertain time. You know, all time is uncertain. I mean, it was uncertain back in – in 2007, we just didn’t know it was uncertain. It was – uncertain on September 10th, 2001. It was uncertain on October 18th, 1987, you just didn’t know it. | |
— Warren Buffett | |
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For Some
Posted in Philosophy, Quotes, tagged Certainty, Comic Strip, Misery, Philosophy, Pogo, Quotes, Uncertainty on June 23, 2017| Leave a Comment »
The certainty of misery is better than the misery of uncertainty. | |
— Pogo (A comic strip and comic strip character) | |
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Cheers, Friend!
Posted in Investing, Philosophy, Quotes, tagged Friends, Investing, Philosophy, Prices, Quotes, The Future, The Stock Market, Uncertainty, Warren Buffett on March 18, 2011| Leave a Comment »
The future is never clear, you pay a very high price in the stock market for a cheery consensus. Uncertainty actually is the friend of the buyer of long-term values. | |
— Warren Buffett | |
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2011 | Cheers, Friend! |