"Uncertainty is an uncomfortable position. But certainty is an absurd position." - Voltaire.
不确定是一个不舒适的位置。但肯定是个荒谬的位置。“-伏尔泰。”
Does he have a view?“Yes”, he says, “and I've never told anyone.But it changes too.” He quotes Voltaire: “Doubt is not a pleasant position, but certainty is absurd.
他说“当然，我没告诉任何人，不过现在也改变想法了”他引用伏尔泰的名言：“怀疑固然不好，但确信更为荒谬。”
But certainty in the complexities of environmental medicine may be achievable only after the fact, when scientists have the opportunity for leisurely and isolated scrutiny of an entire mechanism.
但是，环境药物的准确性，只有经过科学家对药物进行慢慢地并且是隔离开的彻底检查才能得到。
Many Americans came to believe that scientific certainty could not only solve scientific problems, but also reform politics, government, and business.
许多美国人开始相信科学的确定性不仅能解决科学问题，而且能改革政治、政府和商业。
Therefore certainty is not only something of no use, but is in fact damaging, if we value reliability.
因此如果考虑可靠性的价值，确定性不仅仅没有用处，而且事实上还有害处。
"For everything there is a season" is a phrase with a ring of majestic certainty. But with air-freighted fruit and genetically modified veg, it too is wrong.
“万物皆有时节”是一句暗示着庄重宏伟的必然性的短语，但用到空运水果和基因改良蔬菜头上，也是错误的了。
But what about the nine months or so (and maybe longer) until that certainty and outperformance arrive?
但是，这个必然、这个跑赢到来之前的九个多月(或者更久)里会怎样呢？
It's an innate characteristic of human psychology to desire certainty, but it's the creative thinker who rejects the false comfort of clarity when it's not really appropriate.
它是人类心理要求确定性的一个天生的特性，但是一个创造性思想家，他拒绝接受虚假且舒适的清晰的时候，这实在不是恰当的。
So the premises give us reasons to believe the conclusion but not in the case of certainty.
前提给我们理由去相信结论，但是在确定性的情况下。
But they have not yet grasped that inspiring certainty and market confidence is an important part of that task.
但他们尚未理解的是，促进确定性和市场信心，是此项任务的一个重要方面。
By ignoring the lack of certainty, you may avoid some pain temporarily, but this doesn't change the nature of the project and it creates a greater pain later.
通过忽略确定性的缺乏，您可以暂时避免一些痛苦，但是这并没改变项目的本质，而之后将产生更大的痛苦。
When no one can be quite sure what is underwritten and what is not, certainty is not achieved, but the costs may be very large.
对于谁得到了担保、谁没得到担保，当没人心里有数的时候，就不会有确定性，而成本可能很大。
And, occasionally, a third category is invoked where the myth is not refuted, but where a high level of certainty is unattainable, "plausible."
有时，我们不能反驳某个流言，但它又有很高的不确定性，我们就需要援引第三类——“似乎合理的”。
But we do not believe that climate change is a certainty. There are no certainties in science.
但是气候变化是否明确我们无从而知，科学领域没有确定性。
There's a ton of research on certainty and influence, but the vast majority of it focuses on how a person's certainty affects his or her openness to others' ideas.
关于确定性及影响的研究有很多，但大部分集中于研究个人确定性如何影响对他人观点的开放度。
We know that this doesn't give us certainty but it gives us a jolly good reason to think that it is true doesn't it?
我们知道这没有给我们确定性，这给我们一个好的理由去思考这是真的，不是吗？
There are those, of course, who would adopt the Epicurean motto of “Eat, drink, and be merry, “ but most people would be chastened by the certainty of impending death.
因为生活享受的目的被过分强调，而达此目的之手段被忽视，所以伊壁鸠鲁的信徒现今变为追求享乐的人。 他们的信条是：“让我们吃喝，因为明天我们就死亡”），但绝大多数人还是被即将面临死亡的必然性所折磨。
In reality, scientists do not deal in certainty but in probabilities, and the way they calculate these probabilities is complex.
实际上，科学家们分析的是可能性，而不能断然肯定，而且他们计算这些可能性的方法很复杂。
In science, unlike math, we can't have absolute certainty, but in the scheme of things, this is not a health risk I would be concerned about at all.
不像数学，在科学里我们不能有绝对的肯定。但是在日常生活中，我肯定不会担心手机会给我的健康带来什么威胁。
But we do not have the scientific knowledge to interpret these signals with certainty.
但我们不掌握确切解释这些信号的科学知识。
We cannot predict with certainty what the future will bring, but we can be certain about the issues that will define our times.
我们不能肯定地预测到未来是怎样的，但是我们可以肯定哪些问题将会确定我们的时代。
Minefields are areas filled with randomly scattered explosives: one can be pretty sure that some of them, some time, will explode -but one can't say with any degree of certainty which ones and when.
雷区是充满随机分布的爆炸的区域：我们可以确定它们中的一些，在某个时候，会爆炸——但我们不能以任何程度的确定新说要爆炸的是哪个区域以及何时爆炸。
Then very controversially Descartes says, okay I've got one bit of certainty here but I'm thinking that I exist, can't I look at the VAT instance of certainty and draw a general rule from it.
接下来笛卡尔说的话就非常有争议了，我在此得到了一些肯定，但是我正在思考我的存在，我不能仅凭看到了容器这个确凿的例子，就从中描绘出一个普遍的规律。
All these events will be influenced to some degree by global temperatures, but it's impossible to say with certainty that any of them would not have happened in the absence of man-made global warming.
所有这些事件都将受到全球气温一定程度的影响，但是不能十分肯定地说，其中任何之一不会发生在没有人为全球变暖的情形里。
But no matter how much evidence we accumulate, our truths will always be approximations and absolute certainty will exist only in our fantasies.
但是无论我们收集到多少的证据，事实都只是一个近似值，并且只会确凿的存在于我们的幻想中。
But the only certainty about the future of news is that it will be different from the past.
但是有一件事实很清楚的，未来的新闻业将与过去的不同了。
But the only certainty about the future of news is that it will be different from the past.
但是有一件事实很清楚的，未来的新闻业将与过去的不同了。
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