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Uncertainty in sentence

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We've surrendered our power, trading off our discomfort with uncertainty for the illusion of certainty that they provide.
For if we keep our independent decision-making part of our brains switched on, if we challenge experts, if we're skeptical, if we devolve authority, if we are rebellious, but also if we become much more comfortable with nuance, uncertainty and doubt, and if we allow our experts to express themselves using those terms too, we will set ourselves up much better for the challenges of the 21st century.
I was determined to see my idea translate into a practical solution, but I faced uncertainty and had no guarantee of success.
Only doubts and questioning and uncertainty.
So in terms of planning, the uncertainty in this plot is already large.
Cochrane understood that uncertainty, that fallibility, that being challenged, they hurt.
And it's more recently a unifying way to think about how the brain deals with uncertainty.
And numbers in between give you the gray levels of uncertainty.
That it would be my job that would give me routine and stability when I was dealing with so many difficult personal decisions and so much uncertainty.
Imagine 30 percent unemployment in America as the global economy is gripped by fear and uncertainty.
Of course, we can't know what's going to happen and we have to live with uncertainty.
And I finally came across this fantastic quote by a British playwright, William Archer: "Drama is anticipation mingled with uncertainty."
I define vulnerability as emotional risk, exposure, uncertainty.
The problem with questions is they create uncertainty.
Now, uncertainty is a very bad thing.
Okay? (Laughter) Even seasickness is a consequence of uncertainty.
Your brain cannot deal with the uncertainty of that information, and it gets ill.
The question "why?" is one of the most dangerous things you can do, because it takes you into uncertainty.
The best questions are the ones that create the most uncertainty.
So what is evolution's answer to the problem of uncertainty?
Play is one of the only human endeavors where uncertainty is actually celebrated.
Uncertainty is what makes play fun.
We normally walk through life responding, but if we ever want to do anything different, we have to step into uncertainty.
It offers the possibility to step on uncertainty through the process of play, right?
And even though I had absolutely no idea what I was going to do, in that uncertainty came a sense of freedom.
To conquer uncertainty, to know what comes next, that's almost been the dominant aim of industrialized societies, and having got there, or almost got there, we have just encountered a new set of unmet needs.
You know, it's the principles of uncertainty, so, you know.
And again, doesn't that uncertainty feel kind of familiar right now?
Both of which, incidentally, are full of uncertainty usually, and so it's a probabilistic problem, and we have to make sure that there's an adequate margin for safety between the two, of course.
Of course, you understand, the central scientific challenge of a project like this one is qualifying, quantifying and representing uncertainty and inconsistency at each step of this process.
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