#certainty

Distinguishing the signal from the noise requires both scientific knowledge and self-knowledge: the serenity to accept the things we cannot predict, the courage to predict the things we can, and the wisdom to know the difference. ↗

— Nate Silver

#knowledge #prediction #self-knowledge #uncertainty #wisdom

Certainty? In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#taxes #death

The death of God left the angels in a strange position. ↗

— Donald Barthelme

#physics #religion #uncertainty #death

When comparing 100 years of experience to 1, there is a way to close the gap. One must simply understand the choices that were taken, the roads that were walked, and that there are no guarantees to an unseen future. ↗

— Lionel Suggs

#miracles #uncertainty #experience

When your only regret is if anyone thinks you regret anything - that is the definition of conviction. ↗

— Criss Jami

#certainty #confidence #conviction #definition #faith

Doubter wants proof which contributes nothing to her faith. ↗

— Toba Beta

#doubters #faith #need #faith

After all else, there’s more yet: I don’t know what, though. ↗

— Bauvard

#humor #uncertainty #funny

...Granny Weatherwax, who had walked nightly without fear in the bandit-haunted forests of the mountains all her life in the certain knowledge that the darkness held nothing more terrible than she was... ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#confidence #strength #witches #life

Certainty is the mother of quiet and repose, and uncertainty the cause of variance and contentions. ↗

— Edward Coke

#certainty #contentions #mother #quiet #repose

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

— Nicolaus Copernicus

#bounded #certainty #earth #enclosed #poles