Literary References for Uncertainty Analysis

‘this is indeed a meeting which is calculated to impress the mind with a sense of the instability and uncertainty of all human—in short, it is a most extraordinary meeting.

‘Anyone,’ said the other, ‘except the Fools at the Top could of course have foreseen it from the word go.’

Yet, despite a tremendous increase in available facts, there were remarkably few insights.

but the Gods On man bestow not all their gifts at once;

"Expect not, Juno, all my mind to know; My wife thou art, yet would such knowledge be Too much for thee; whate'er I deem it fit That thou shouldst know, nor God nor man shall hear Before thee; but what I in secret plan, Seek not to know, nor curiously inquire."

In a way, these things they’d gathered were an illusion. A way to reassure themselves that they were doing something to prepare.

if they waited until they were so wise as to make no mistakes before they acted, they waited forever.

the lesson thou shalt learn Shall cause thee shudder but to hear it nam'd."