英语名人名言：Uncertainty 无常

　　Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality.

　　Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970), "Am I An Atheist1 Or An Agnostic?", 1947

　　When one admits that nothing is certain one must, I think, also admit that some things are much more nearly certain than others.

　　Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970), "Am I An Atheist Or An Agnostic?", 1947

　　No man can ever be secure until he has been forsaken2 by Fortune.

　　Boethius, 522, The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom, 2005

　　I believe that uncertainty3 is really my spirit's way of whispering, "I'm in flux4. I can't decide for you. Something is off-balance here."

　　Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine, June 2003

　　In these matters the only certainty is that nothing is certain.

　　Pliny the Elder (23 AD - 79 AD)

　　The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next.

　　Ursula K. LeGuin

　　Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.

　　Voltaire (1694 - 1778)

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