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“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.”

Thinking Certain Chance Very Good Certainty Preventing Good Chance

Author:Sibel Edmonds

“It is certain because it is impossible. -Certum est quia impossibile”

Certain Impossible Certainty

Author:Tertullian

“VIRTUES, n.pl. Certain abstentions.”

Certain Virtue Certainty Abstention

Book:The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World

Source: The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World

“We see it [the as-yet unseen, probable new planet, Neptune] as Columbus saw America from the coast of Spain. Its movements have been felt, trembling along the far-reaching line of our analysis with a certainty hardly inferior to that of ocular demonstration.”

Has Beens America Science Felt Lines Saws Movement Planets Certainty Analysis Reaching Inferiors Unseen Coast Spain Demonstration Trembling Columbus Neptune

Author:William Herschel

“The doctrine called Philosophical Necessity is simply this: that, given the motives which are present to an individual's mind, and given likewise the character and disposition of the individual, the manner in which he will act might be unerringly inferred: that if we knew the person thoroughly, and knew all the inducements which are acting upon him, we could foretell his conduct with as much certainty as we can predict any physical event.”

Ifs Mind Persons Character Might Science Individual Given Acting Events Philosophical Doctrine Certainty Motive Disposition

Book:A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive: Mill's Works

Source: A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive: Mill's Works

“Moral certainty is never more than probability.”

Science Moral Certainty Probability

Author:Giovanni Battista Beccaria

“The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.”

Art Philosophy Problem Age Science Next History Certainty

Book:Religion And The Rise Of Capitalism

Source: Religion And The Rise Of Capitalism

“If it were possible for us to have so deep an insight into a man's character as shown both in inner and in outer actions, that every, even the least, incentive to these actions and all external occasions which affect them were so known to us that his future conduct could be predicted with as great a certainty as the occurrence of a solar or lunar eclipse, we could nevertheless still assert that the man is free.”

Ifs Men Stills Character Action Science Known He Man Insight Certainty Occasions Nevertheless Incentives Eclipse

Author:Immanuel Kant

“... the body, normally, is never in question: our bodies are beyond question, or perhaps beneath question - they are simply, unquestionably, there. This unquestionability of the body, is, for Wittgenstein, the start and basis of all knowledge and certainty.”

Body Bases Certainty

Book:The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat: Picador Classic

Source: The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat: Picador Classic

“Religion deals in certainties and philosophy deals more in un-answered questions.”

Philosophy Deals Certainty

Author:Steve Hackett

“To me it seems that those sciences are vain and full of error which are not born of experience, mother of all certainty, first-hand experience which in its origins, or means, or end has passed through one of the five senses.”

Mind Firsts Mean Ends Philosophy Body Hands Seems Mother Born Psychology Five Medicine Errors Senses Certainty Vain Soma Five Senses First Hand Experience

Author:Leonardo da Vinci

“Finally, when all was said and done, the certainty (so often experienced, yet always new) that female charms, the kind that inflame the senses, are no more than kitchen smells: they tease you when you're hungry and disgust you when you've had your fill.”

Kind Said Done Female Smell Senses Lust Hungry Certainty Kitchen Charm Disgusting Tease Said And Done

Author:M. Ageyev