Definition of Uncertainty

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Definition of Uncertainty
	Uncertainty The quality or state of being uncertain. That which is uncertain; something unknown. Related Definitions: Being, Is, Of, Or, Quality, Something, State, That, The, Uncertain, Unknown, Which

Uncertainty Quotations

Medicine is a science of uncertainty and an art of probability.
William Osler

If we must not act save on a certainty, we ought not to act on religion, for it is not certain. But how many things we do on an uncertainty, sea voyages, battles!
Blaise Pascal

We sail within a vast sphere, ever drifting in uncertainty, driven from end to end.
Blaise Pascal

I believe the most solemn duty of the American president is to protect the American people. If America shows uncertainty and weakness in this decade, the world will drift toward tragedy. This will not happen on my watch.
George W. Bush

The action we take and the decisions we make in this decade will have consequences far into this century. If America shows weakness and uncertainty, the world will drift toward tragedy. That will not happen on my watch.
George W. Bush

If you aren't in the moment, you are either looking forward to uncertainty, or back to pain and regret.
Jim Carrey

Without the element of uncertainty, the bringing off of even, the greatest business triumph would be dull, routine, and eminently unsatisfying.
J. Paul Getty

It is in the admission of ignorance and the admission of uncertainty that there is a hope for the continuous motion of human beings in some direction that doesn't get confined, permanently blocked, as it has so many times before in various periods in the history of man.
Richard P. Feynman

Scientific views end in awe and mystery, lost at the edge in uncertainty, but they appear to be so deep and so impressive that the theory that it is all arranged as a stage for God to watch man's struggle for good and evil seems inadequate.
Richard P. Feynman

The quest for certainty blocks the search for meaning. Uncertainty is the very condition to impel man to unfold his powers.
Erich Fromm

Uncertainty Translations

uncertainty in French is incertitude
uncertainty in Italian is incertezza
uncertainty in Spanish is incertidumbre

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