Beneath all of his theories, including relativity, was a quest for invariants, certainties, and absolutes.
Clearly, investors believe that some comfortable old certainties have gone out of the window.
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An example of radical realism, this movie has its mysteries as well as its devastating certainties.
Old certainties have changed and he is not certain that he will be voting Republican in 2008.
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The massive certainties of the nineteenth century have given way to the bewildering complexity of the twentieth.
Cross Keys, rooted to the bottom of the table without a win and near certainties for relegation, were hardly in it.
They will regard issues such as the conundrum of cross-border politics as mere sophistry, compared with those perceived certainties.
The century has been littered with the debris left behind by false certainties, sometimes deliberately false, often accidentally so.
Her strident certainties on Clarence Thomas and Bob Packwood helped to open public figures' private lives to public inspection.
That means, among other things, that certainties about transatlantic dominance by particular airports and airlines are beginning to fade.
He quipped that he did not need it because he dealt in certainties.
Also, saddened by exile, they favour the certainties that orthodoxies provide rather than trying to understand how a western democracy works.
Einstein's life and work reflected the disruption of societal certainties and moral absolutes in the modernist atmosphere of the early twentieth century.
Her own fulfillment, through him, continued, her belief undiminished, her certainties unchallenged.
Egyptian protesters have dislodged a few boulders, and shaken a few certainties.
It exploded the moral certainties that had propped up the middle-class order.
In the second row O'Connell and Wales' Alun Wyn Jones are certainties.
"There's probably only a few certainties who know they're in the team, which is what makes it such a great side, " he said.
"For all of us, who were fortunate enough to cross your path, you will always remain the one who questioned certainties, " the statement said.
By the same logic, the Asian crash of 1997 caused further tumult and an even more widespread resort to the comforting certainties of Islam.
There are no certainties in the business of making investment predictions.
But they are not certainties for the Test XI, with Mitchell Johnson, Peter Siddle and Ben Hilfenhaus having impressed on the recent tour to South Africa.
Generally speaking, people who have faith in democracy welcome participatory media, whereas people who have reservations will be nostalgic for the top-down certainties of the mass media.
Now I understand that questions are at the heart of faith, and that certainties about God can flicker on and off, no matter what you think you know.
But a run of poor form, combined with the 10-point deduction incurred for falling into administration, means Celtic are now 21 points clear and certainties for the title.
Nevertheless, we've seen our fair share of certainties turn out bogus, so per usual, we'd recommend a healthy dose of table salt with this one as well.
But DNA experts still deal in probabilities and not certainties.
With Australia's side on Friday featuring seven players thought to be certainties to take on England in the Test matches, it was another very dispiriting display from the hosts.
In his speech, Nick Robinson believes, Ed Miliband will now set out what he is, and how he will challenge the "new certainties" in New Labour thinking on immigration, wages and business.
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