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

Certainty, Nothing

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

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"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

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"Step by step a powerful and enterprising race has driven them back from the Atlantic to the West until at last there is scarcely a spot of ground upon which the Indians have any certainty of maintaining a permanent abode."

Nelson A. Miles, American Soldier

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"Only a very bad theologian would confuse the certainty that follows revelation with the truths that are revealed. They are entirely different things."

Denis Diderot, French Editor

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

Rudyard Kipling, English Writer

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"To believe with certainty we must begin with doubting."

Stanislaus I, Polish Royalty

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"I really think that living is the process of going from complete certainty to complete ignorance."

Richard Dreyfuss, American Actor

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"Inquiry is fatal to certainty."

Will Durant, American Historian

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

Michael Crichton, American Author

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"The Resistance is a moral certainty, not a poetic one. The true poet never uses words in order to punish someone. His judgment belongs to a creative order; it is not formulated as a prophetic scripture."

Salvatore Quasimodo, Italian Author

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