Literary References for Uncertainty Analysis
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Literary References for Uncertainty Analysis
"Desire nothing for thyself, seek nothing, be not anxious or envious. Man's future and thy own fate must remain hidden from thee, but live so that thou mayest be ready for anything. If it be God's will to prove thee in the duties of marriage, be ready to fulfill His will."
Leo Tolstoy • War and Peace
Thornton Wilder, The Eighth Day
“But there is only one history…all other beginnings and endings are arbitrary conventions, diffusing petty comfort or petty despair.”
“It is only in appearance that time is a river. It is rather a vast landscape and it is the eye of the beholder that moves.”
Thornton Wilder, The Eighth Day
“There was always hope that in talk, talk, talk he could alter the past, conjure the future, and impose an estimable image of himself upon the present.”
Thornton Wilder, The Eighth Day
“Yes, everything’s hopeless, but we are the slaves of hope”
Thornton Wilder, The Eighth Day
being—for what being can be stranger than oneself, or act more inexplicably?
Gene Wolfe • The Urth of the New Sun: The sequel to 'The Book of the New Sun'
I began to walk, fearing a hundred things that would never harm me and utterly ignorant of the real risks I ran.
Gene Wolfe • The Urth of the New Sun: The sequel to 'The Book of the New Sun'
Chesterton, Orthodoxy
Predicting world state 10 years out is difficult