Could we have prevented in 100% certainty? I don't think anything is that certain. However, we would have had a very, very good chance for preventing it.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
If we had failed to pursue the facts as far as they led, we would have denied the public any knowledge of an unprecedented scheme of political surveillance and sabotage.
The only certainty is that nothing is certain.
That though we are certain of many things, yet that Certainty is no absolute Infallibility, there still remains the possibility of our being mistaken in all matters of humane Belief and Inquiry.
Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.
Certitude is not the test of certainty. We have been cocksure of many things that were not so.
We must always remember that all medical interventions have risk, and very little can be asserted with 100 percent certainty.
Only the most deluded of us could doubt the necessity of this war.
To believe with certainty we must begin with doubting.
The fatal tendency of mankind to leave off thinking about a thing when it is no longer doubtful is the cause of half their errors.
I am certain there is too much certainty in the world.