"It is far better to foresee even without certainty than not to foresee at all."

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"It is far better to foresee even without certainty than not to foresee at all."

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"You can safely appeal to the United Nations in the comfortable certainty that it will let you down."

Conor Cruise O'Brien, Irish Politician

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"We regard it as a certainty that the earth, enclosed between poles, is bounded by a spherical surface."

Nicolaus Copernicus, Polish Scientist

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"When I tested for Billy Budd, I had that kind of confidence that comes with the certainty that you're not going to get something. I was very rough around the edges."

Terence Stamp, British Actor

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"I would say that without any doubt he's the killer - the law says beyond a reasonable doubt and to a moral certainty which I - there's no question that he was the killer of President Kennedy."

Henry Wade, American Lawyer

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"Many slaves on this continent are oppressed, and their cries have reached the ears of the Most High. Such are the purity and certainty of his judgments, that he cannot be partial in our favor."

John Woolman, American Clergyman

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"The demand for certainty is one which is natural to man, but is nevertheless an intellectual vice."

Bertrand Russell, British Philosopher

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"Nothing consoles and comforts like certainty does."

Amit Kalantri, Indian Author

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"A woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's certainty."

Rudyard Kipling, English Writer

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"Could we have prevented in 100% certainty? I don't think anything is that certain. However, we would have had a very, very good chance for preventing it."

Sibel Edmonds, American Public Servant

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"I am certain there is too much certainty in the world."

Michael Crichton, American Author

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"How is an error possible in mathematics?"

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"A very small cause which escapes our notice determines a considerable effect that we cannot fail to see, and then we say that the effect is due to chance."

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"Mathematicians are born, not made."

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"If nature were not beautiful, it would not be worth knowing, and if nature were not worth knowing, life would not be worth living."

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"Science is facts."

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"Need we add that mathematicians themselves are not infallible?"

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"The scientist does not study nature because it is useful; he studies it because he delights in it, and he delights in it because it is beautiful."

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"In the old days when people invented a new function they had something useful in mind."

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"A small error in the former will produce an enormous error in the latter."

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"The mathematical facts worthy of being studied are those which, by their analogy with other facts, are capable of leading us to the knowledge of a physical law."

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