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Reason can get you to probability, but only commitment can get you to certainty.
The person with the most certainty in a given situation will influence the other.
Religion deals in certainties and philosophy deals more in un-answered questions.
Maybe that's what is means to be human . . . forever questioning our certainties.
If we have not found heaven within, it is a certainty we will not find it without.
There is a long history of how DNA sequencing can bring certainty to people's lives.
Antisappointment. Anticipation colliding head-on with the certainty of its own doom.
It's good to have some certainty in life, even if it's only that I'm in deep trouble.
The government will not support a nine-week work year. That I can say with certainty.
Crimes are more effectually prevented by the certainty than the severity of punishment
One must verify or expel his doubts, and convert them into the certainty of Yes or NO.
Science has proof without any certainty. Creationists have certainty without any proof.
You can safely appeal to the UN in the comfortable certainty that it will let you down.
Death, in its certainty, is exacting its due respect and repose before it takes my hand.
Science deals in evidence and uncertainty. Religion deals in certainty without evidence.
For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream.
Knowledge breeds doubt, not certainty, And the more we know the more uncertain we become.
That which most concerns and worries you - your survival - is the only certainty you have.
I will go on quietly and slowly, but I will go on firmly, and with a certainty of success.
Certainty, and the innovation that thrives in a climate of certainty, are key to progress.
It is not certainty which is creative, but the uncertainty we are pledged to in our works.
The certainty that everything has already been written annuls us, or renders us phantasmal.
From principles is derived probability, but truth or certainty is obtained only from facts.
Nobody knows the future with certainty. We can, however, identify ongoing patterns of change.
Never thought I'd see the day when Death was denied. That leaves taxes as the only certainty.
If there's one crime for which there has to be a certainty of punishment, it is gun violence.
Certainty always produces questions, uncertainty statements. It is a balancing law of nature.
I have devoted my life to uncertainty. Certainty is the death of wisdom, thought, creativity.
And for mathematical science, he that doubts their certainty hath need of a dose of hellebore.
The Bush tax cuts, they ought to be made permanent in my mind so there is certainty out there.
Certitude is not the test of certainty. We have been cocksure of many things that were not so.
There was the single abiding certainty that they would never be at a loss for things to carry.
Doubt always coexists with faith, for in the presence of certainty who would need faith at all?
Sometimes the probabilities are very close to certainties, but they're never really certainties
The fraudster's greatest liability is the certainty that the fraud is too clever to be detected.
Businesses need certainty, to see clearly the rules of engagement for investing in South Africa.
I really think that living is the process of going from complete certainty to complete ignorance.
There are few things reason can discover with so much certainty and ease as its own insufficiency.
The areas of consensus shift unbelievably fast; the bubbles of certainty are constantly exploding.
I've always been envious of certainty, of people who always seemed to have a plan for their lives.
The demand for certainty is one which is natural to man, but is nevertheless an intellectual vice.
Fame is a vapor; popularity an accident; riches take wings; the only earthly certainty is oblivion.
Certainty is the mother of quiet and repose, and uncertainty the cause of variance and contentions.
We have to provide more visibility, more certainty to the investors and reduce the cost of failure.
You can safely appeal to the United Nations in the comfortable certainty that it will let you down.
For investor confidence, it is important that there is certainty about the future of Ireland in E.U.
Certainty is the mark of the commonsense life-gracious uncertainty is the mark of the spiritual life.
The Clean Energy Jobs legislation will provide predictability and certainty for large carbon emitters.
We regard it as a certainty that the earth, enclosed between poles, is bounded by a spherical surface.
I'm a scientist, not a theologian. I don't know if there is a God or not. Religion requires certainty.