"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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"The quest for certainty blocks the search for meaning. Uncertainty is the very condition to impel man to unfold his powers."

Erich Fromm, American Psychologist

Certainty, Man, Meaning, Quest

"The only certainty is that nothing is certain."

Pliny The Elder, Roman Author

Certainty, Nothing

"Spending a weekend with Hitler would have been boring in the extreme, although you would have had a greater certainty in coming back alive."

Alan Bullock, British Historian

Certainty, Extreme, Weekend

"That the sun will not rise tomorrow is no less intelligible a proposition, and implies no more contradiction, than the affirmation, that it will rise."

David Hume, Scottish Philosopher

Certainty, Affirmation, Contradiction, Sun, Tomorrow

"When the human mind exists in the light of reason and no more than reason, we may say with absolute certainty that Man and all that made him will be in that instant gone."

Loren Eiseley, American Scientist

Certainty, Light, Man, May

"In these matters the only certainty is that nothing is certain."

Pliny the Elder, Roman Author

Certainty, Nothing

"No great deed is done by falterers who ask for certainty."

George Eliot, British Author

Certainty, Deed

"Perseverance guarantees success."

Rajen Jani, Indian Author

Certainty, Perseverance, Success, Effort

"The minute one utters a certainty, the opposite comes to mind."

May Sarton, American Poet

Certainty, Mind

"The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to certainty; the new therefore always appears in the guise of a miracle."

Hannah Arendt, German Historian

Certainty, Laws

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

People

"Facts do not speak."

Fact

"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."

Cause

"It has adopted the geometry most advantageous to the species or, in other words, the most convenient."

Geometry

"Thought is only a flash between two long nights, but this flash is everything."

Thought

"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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"The quest for certainty blocks the search for meaning. Uncertainty is the very condition to impel man to unfold his powers."

"The only certainty is that nothing is certain."

"Spending a weekend with Hitler would have been boring in the extreme, although you would have had a greater certainty in coming back alive."

"That the sun will not rise tomorrow is no less intelligible a proposition, and implies no more contradiction, than the affirmation, that it will rise."

"When the human mind exists in the light of reason and no more than reason, we may say with absolute certainty that Man and all that made him will be in that instant gone."

"In these matters the only certainty is that nothing is certain."

"No great deed is done by falterers who ask for certainty."

"Perseverance guarantees success."

"The minute one utters a certainty, the opposite comes to mind."

"The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to certainty; the new therefore always appears in the guise of a miracle."

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"Mathematicians are born, not made."

"Mathematicians do not study objects, but relations between objects."

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

"No more than these machines need the mathematician know what he does."

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

"Facts do not speak."

"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."

"It has adopted the geometry most advantageous to the species or, in other words, the most convenient."

"Thought is only a flash between two long nights, but this flash is everything."

"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."