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Absolute Certainty Quotes

If we do everything right, if we do it with absolute certainty, there's still a 30% chance we're going to get it wrong.

"MSNBC's Mika Brzezinski Gushingly Admits: Joe Biden Is 'Our Guy,' Also, 'I Love Him'". Interview with Rachel Burnett, www.newsbusters.org. July 19, 2010.

A woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's certainty.

Rudyard Kipling (2016). “Collected Works of Rudyard Kipling (Illustrated Edition): 5 Novels & 350+ Short Stories, Poetry, Historical Military Works and Autobiographical Writings from one of the most popular writers in England, known for The Jungle Book, Kim, The Man Who Would Be King”, p.724, e-artnow (Open Publishing)

Scientific knowledge is a body of statements of varying degrees of certainty -- some most unsure, some nearly sure, none absolutely certain.

Richard P. Feynman (2011). “"What Do You Care What Other People Think?": Further Adventures of a Curious Character”, p.263, W. W. Norton & Company

All silencing of discussion is an assumption of infallibility.

John Stuart Mill (2012). “On Liberty”, p.15, Courier Corporation

It is not that there are no certainties, it is that it is an absolute certainty that there are no certainties.

Christopher Hitchens (2012). “Long Live Hitch: Three Classic Books in One Volume”, p.1650, Atlantic Books Ltd