Literary References for Uncertainty Analysis

If you need a quote about uncertainty (and uncertainty analysis) for a slide, article, paper, etc…

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

Homer • The Iliad

"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."

Homer • The Iliad

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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.”

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

Stephen King • The Dark Tower I

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.”

For that dim and mostly comfortable picture of a future which hovers before most men’s eyes had vanished.

C. S. Lewis • The Dark Tower: And Other Stories

Thornton Wilder, The Eighth Day

VALUING IS MAN'S EMOTIONAL REACTION TO THE VARIOUS STATES OF HIS ENVIRONMENT, BOTH THAT OF THE EXTERNAL WORLD AND THAT OF THE PHYSIOLOGICAL CONDITIONS OF HIS OWN BODY.

LUDWIG VON MISES