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“Our account does not rob the mathematicians of their science... In point of fact they do not need the infinite and do not use it.”

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Book:Physics

Source: Physics

“The truth has no need to be uttered to be made apparent, and ... one may perhaps gather it with more certainty, without waiting for words and without even taking any account of them, from countless outward signs, even from certain invisible phenomena, analogous in the sphere of human character to what atmospheric changes are in the physical world.”

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Book:In Search of Lost Time, Volume III: The Guermantes Way

Source: In Search of Lost Time, Volume III: The Guermantes Way

“While we were never able to provide 100 percent certainty regarding the disposition of Iraq's proscribed weaponry, we did ascertain a 90-95 percent level of verified disarmament. This figure takes into account the destruction or dismantling of every major factory associated with prohibited weapons manufacture, all significant items of production equipment, and the majority of the weapons and agent produced by Iraq.”

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Author:Scott Ritter

“No disorders have employed so many quacks, as those that have no cure; and no sciences have exercised so many quills, as those that have no certainty.”

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Book:Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think

Source: Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think

“Science is the outcome of being prepared to live without certainty and therefore a mark of maturity. It embraces doubt and loose ends.”

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Author:A.C. Grayling

“Science is uncertain. Theories are subject to revision; observations are open to a variety of interpretations, and scientists quarrel amongst themselves. This is disillusioning for those untrained in the scientific method, who thus turn to the rigid certainty of the Bible instead. There is something comfortable about a view that allows for no deviation and that spares you the painful necessity of having to think.”

“The scientist believes in proof without certainty, the bigot in certainty without proof.”

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Author:Ashley Montagu

“The most distinctive characteristic which differentiates mathematics from the various branches of empirical science, and which accounts for its fame as the queen of the sciences, is no doubt the peculiar certainty and necessity of its results.”

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Book:The Philosophy of Carl G. Hempel: Studies in Science, Explanation, and Rationality

Source: The Philosophy of Carl G. Hempel: Studies in Science, Explanation, and Rationality