"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."

Certainty, Laws

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"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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"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."

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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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"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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"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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"Certitude is not the test of certainty. We have been cocksure of many things that were not so."

Oliver Wendell Holmes, American Writer

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"When we deal with questions relating to principles of law and their applications, we do not suddenly rise into a stratosphere of icy certainty."

Charles Evans Hughes, American Judge

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"Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what is given by the senses."

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"War has become a luxury that only small nations can afford."

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"The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the outstanding event of the last decade."

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