Voltaire Quotes About Certainty
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We admit, in geometry, not only infinite magnitudes, that is to say, magnitudes greater than any assignable magnitude, but infinite magnitudes infinitely greater, the one than the other. This astonishes our dimension of brains, which is only about six inches long, five broad, and six in depth, in the largest heads.
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Doubt is not a very agreeable status, but certainty is a ridiculous one.
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He who has heard the same thing told by 12,000 eye-witnesses has only 12,000 probabilities, which are equal to one strong probability, which is far from certain.
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Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.
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What can we say with certainty?
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Doubt is uncomfortable, certainty is ridiculous.
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