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"It is far better to foresee even without certainty than not to foresee at all."
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"One must verify or expel his doubts, and convert them into the certainty of Yes or NO."
"And, for an instant, she stared directly into those soft blue eyes and knew, with an instinctive mammalian certainty, that the exceedingly rich were no longer even remotely human."
"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."
"Only a very bad theologian would confuse the certainty that follows revelation with the truths that are revealed. They are entirely different things."
"The areas of consensus shift unbelievably fast; the bubbles of certainty are constantly exploding."
"Certitude is not the test of certainty. We have been cocksure of many things that were not so."
"The demand for certainty is one which is natural to man, but is nevertheless an intellectual vice."
"A bird in hand is a certainty. But a bird in the bush may sing."
"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."
Explore more quotes by Henri Poincare
"Absolute space, that is to say, the mark to which it would be necessary to refer the earth to know whether it really moves, has no objective existence."
"It has adopted the geometry most advantageous to the species or, in other words, the most convenient."
"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."
"A sane mind should not be guilty of a logical fallacy, yet there are very fine minds incapable of following mathematical demonstrations."
"What is it indeed that gives us the feeling of elegance in a solution, in a demonstration?"
"If we knew exactly the laws of nature and the situation of the universe at the initial moment, we could predict exactly the situation of the same universe at a succeeding moment."
"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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