Apr
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adminsophia
4/2/2010 3:53 PM
Uncertainty is a measure of variety. Uncertainty is zero when all elements are in the same category. Uncertainty increases with both the number of categories and their equal-probability. It is the statistically defined discrepancy between a measured quantity and the true value of that quantity that cannot be corrected by calculation or calibration. Uncertainty is a prominent feature of the benefits and costs of climate change. Decision makers need to compare risk of premature or unnecessary actions with risk of failing to take actions that subsequently prove to be warranted. Uncertainty defines change and thus these uncertainty quotes describe the need for the variation in one's static and immobile life. These quotes describe the changes that have occurred in people's lives due certain very crucial events in their lives.
It may also be defined as the standard deviation of a sufficiently large number of measurements of the same quantity by the same instrument or method. The non-correctable part of the inaccuracy of an instrument, it represents the limit of measurement precision. The uncertainty of an instrument is caused by the unpredictable effects upon its performance of such factors as friction, backlash, and electronic noise. This is complicated by potential irreversibility in climate impacts and long term investments.
Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality.
Bertrand Russell
An image is a stop the mind makes between uncertainties.
Djuna Barnes
We demand guaranteed rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty.
Douglas Adams
To be uncertain is to be uncomfortable, but to be certain is to be ridiculous.
Chinese Proverb
There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing.
Robert Burns
This I ever held worse that all certitude, To know not what the worst ahead might be.
Algernon Charles Swinburne
When the mind is in a state of uncertainty the smallest impulse directs it to either side.
Terence
When one admits that nothing is certain one must, I think, also admit that some things are much more nearly certain than others.
Bertrand Russell
Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.
Voltaire
Who knows whether the gods will add tomorrow to the present hour?
Horace
All human things hang on a slender thread, the strongest fall with a sudden crash.
Ovid
My thought, whose murder yet is but fantastical, Shakes so my single state of man that function Is smothered in surmise and nothing is But what is not.
William Shakespeare
Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an insipid thing, through the overtaking and possessing of a wish discovers the folly of the chase.
William Congreve
The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next.
Ursula K. LeGuin
Maturity of mind is the capacity to endure uncertainty.
John Finley
Uncertainty and mystery are energies of life. Don't let them scare you unduly, for they keep boredom at bay and spark creativity.
R. I. Fitzhenry
I believe that uncertainty is really my spirit's way of whispering, "I'm in flux. I can't decide for you. Something is off-balance here."
Oprah Winfrey
In these matters the only certainty is that nothing is certain.
Pliny the Elder
Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty.
Jacob Bronowski