Unknown Factors Quotes

I know very well that many scientists consider dowsing as they do astrology, as a type of ancient superstition. According to my conviction this is, unjustified. The dowsing rod is a simple instrument which shows the uncanny reaction of the human nervous system to certain factors which are unknown to us at this time.

Assumptions are what we don't know we are making

As soon as you go into any biological process in any real detail, you discover it's open-ended in terms of what needs to be found out about it.

Life is and will ever remain an equation incapable of solution, but it contains certain known factors.

There are three rules for running a business; fortunately, we don't know any of them.

These are just things that we don't know, and that's where trust and faith come in.

We should not assume; however, that just because something is unexplainable by us, it is unexplainable.

We have a remarkably complete picture in many ways - and it could be that we're not accounting for something that's almost three-quarters of the entire universe.

All the business of war, and indeed all the business of life, is to endeavour to find out what you don't know by what you do; that's what I called 'guess what was at the other side of the hill'.

A GREAT PAINTER will know a great deal about how he did it, but still he will say, “How did I do it?

A hustler has to deal with danger and risk. It's part of the game. You cannot control it all, nor would you want to. Chaos, unknown factors are not something to be anxious about.

Asuka is just insane, and she has such a different background and things I've never seen before, so I'd say I'm a little bit more worried of Asuka because I don't know much about her.

The most confounding thing of all is that we still haven't identified the cause of 20% to 30% of adult common colds.

Usually when I start a new project there's a fear of the unknown; maybe it's a band I've never been in the studio with before. People are so different. It's almost like you need to go through the process, discover and unlock what it is that makes that band that band. And a lot of times they don't know it.

As a rule, men worry more about what they can't see than about what they can.

I don't understand what I do, I just know that it's great.

Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living.

The most important figures for management of any organization are unknown and unknowable.

But between the plan and the operation, there is always an unknown. That unknown spells victory or defeat. ... Some people call it getting the breaks. I call it God. God has His part in everything. That's where prayer comes in.

You never know why something works or doesn't.

Apprehensions are greater in proportion as things are unknown.

At the end of the day, I don't know what makes any artist say what he says. Everyone has a reason for whatever it is they do.

This world cannot explain its own difficulties without the assistance of another.

I don't know what people like to see.

So, I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them.