Unconstrained Quotes
Uncertainty, the Unknown, and the Unknowable:
Far better an approximate answer to the right question, than the exact answer to the wrong question, which can always be made precise. - John Tukey, Princeton University
If you believe everything you read, better not read. - Japanese Proverb
If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties. - Francis Bacon
In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.- Dwight D. Eisenhower
No amount of sophistication is going to allay the fact that all your knowledge is about the past and all your decisions are about the future. - Ian E. Wilson
The important thing is not to stop questioning. - Albert Einstein
The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth. - Niels Bohr
The reverse side also has a reverse side. - Japanese Proverb
To do great important tasks, two things are necessary, a plan and not enough time. - Unknown attribution
Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd. - Voltaire
If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it? - Albert Einstein
In these matters the only certainty is that nothing is certain. - Pliny the Elder (23 AD - 79 AD)
The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts. - Bertrand Russell
Research is the process of going up alleys to see if they are blind. - Marston Bates
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