Uncertainty/concepts

Famous quotes containing the words uncertainty and/or concepts:

“What a chimera then is man. What a novelty! What a monster, what a chaos, what a contradiction, what a prodigy. Judge of all things, imbecile worm of the earth; depositary of truth, a sink of uncertainty and error: the pride and refuse of the universe.”
—Blaise Pascal (1623–1662)

“When you have broken the reality into concepts you never can reconstruct it in its wholeness.”
—William James (1842–1910)