“I shall devote all my efforts to bring light into the immense obscurity that today reigns in Analysis. It so lacks any plan or system, that one is really astonished that there are so many people who devote themselves to it - and, still worse, it is absolutely devoid of any rigor.” PeopleStillsLightTodayEffortPlansLogicCertaintyUncertaintyAnalysisReasoningImmenseReignObscurityOntologyRigor Author:Niels Henrik Abel
“The slicing technique from Flatland still remains one of the most powerful tools for dealing with aggregates in higher dimensions.” StillsPowerfulHigherToolsLogicRemainsTechniqueCertaintyUncertaintyReasoningDimensionsMost PowerfulOntology Author:Thomas Banchoff
“The world is too big and too intricate to conform to our ideas of what it should be like... Just because we invent myths and theories to explain away the chaos we're still going to live in a world that's older and more complicated than we'll ever understand.” WorldShouldStillsIdeasBigsTheoryLogicChaosComplicatedMythCertaintyUncertaintyReasoningConformIntricateOntology Author:Moby
“In this quest to seek and find God in all things, there is still an area of uncertainty. There must be. If a person says that he met God with total certainty and is not touched by a margin of uncertainty, then this is not good.” IfsPersonsStillsMetsAreasAll ThingsCertaintyUncertaintyTouchedQuestsMargins Book:My Door Is Always Open: A Conversation on Faith, Hope and the Church in a Time of Change Source: My Door Is Always Open: A Conversation on Faith, Hope and the Church in a Time of Change
“Audiences aren't going to get rid of me. One thing I can say, with absolute certainty, is that my shows will still be performed when I'm dead, buried and forgotten. They're going to absolutely outlive me, which is a wonderful thing to think about.” ThinkingStillsI CanShowsAudienceWonderfulOne ThingAbsolutesForgottenCertaintyBuriedWonderful ThingsAbsolute Certainty Author:Cameron Mackintosh
“You had to form for yourself a lucid language for the world, to overcome the battering of experience, to replace everyday life's pain and harshness and wretched dreariness with - no not with certainty but with an ignorance you could live with. Deep ignorance, but still a kind that knew its limits. The limits were crucial.” WorldKindStillsPainFormLanguageIgnoranceLimitsOvercomingEverydayCertaintyCrucialEveryday LifeWretchedHarshnessBattering Author:Gregory Benford