Although our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty, our nature often finds uncertainty fascinating.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Exploring the unknown requires tolerating uncertainty.
I have devoted my life to uncertainty. Certainty is the death of wisdom, thought, creativity.
I think that when we know that we actually do live in uncertainty, then we ought to admit it; it is of great value to realize that we do not know the answers to different questions. This attitude of mind - this attitude of uncertainty - is vital to the scientist, and it is this attitude of mind which the student must first acquire.
We must become more comfortable with probability and uncertainty.
The mark of a mature, psychologically healthy mind is indeed the ability to live with uncertainty and ambiguity, but only as much as there really is. Uncertainty is no virtue when the facts are clear, and ambiguity is mere obfuscation when more precise terms are applicable.
One of the secrets of life is to keep our intellectual curiosity acute.
We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases.
Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty.
From an early age I was very, very fascinated by uncertainty.
Some people, both scientists and religious people, deal with uncertainty by being certain. That is dangerous in the fundamentalists and it is dangerous in the fundamentalist scientists.
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