Sentences with phrase «than certainties»

Scholars honor tentativeness more than certainty, and skill in criticism and analysis more than confident assertion.

This risk must be taken if our concern is the maximum probable human benefit rather than the certainty of keeping our own consciences spotless.

As a mostly disinterested observer — a little hope is better than a certainty of a slow - motion train wreck.

Peter Gomes says agnosticism is healthier than certainty in some cases.

Throughout the hearing, Agnifilo addressed the use of human beings as tools to attain social policy, as he argued that the length of the sentence should not be more significant than the certainty of being caught.

The belief that human understanding can only know with varying degrees of probability rather than certainty does not automatically provide a consensus, but it does open us up to a respectful dialogue that can lead to a consensus or at least a more balanced perspective, while dogmatic absolutism can only result in polemics which tends to more extreme and hardened positions.

Before the sovereign God, they forsake all authority other than that certainty found in the living Word.

I suppose I'd rather freedom than certainty.

Grappling is more interesting to watch than certainty, any day of the week.

The Court noted that these «studies are more akin to estimates than the certainties that the panel suggested.»

First, Preston and Stig underscore that investing is a long - term game, but that few have that attitude: «Most people would rather rely on the promise of getting rich tomorrow than the certainty of getting rich in twenty or thirty years.»

In the current analysis, in the flawed analysis, and in the published GISS analysis, 1934 is the warmest year in the contiguous states (but not globally) by an amount (magnitude of the order of 0.01 °C) that is an order of magnitude smaller than the certainty.

This remark from the RS workshop is a definite keeper: «For public confidence, trust is more important than certainty».

Criptonoticias, an online news outlet covering crypto - related news for Spanaish speakers, point out that, «the petro raises more doubts than certainties,» adding that, «the absence of a development repository in Github is extremely striking, since this is one of the fundamental points to evaluate an ICO.»

Given the political dynamics at play and the controversial nature of the ACAO in general, passage (or even a vote) on the ordinance next week is less than a certainty.

Once it has been established as a «fact», it doesn't matter what science says, because the doubt incubates the imagination better than certainty, and prohibits scientific expertise from undermining the power of the nightmare.

But set against that, we need to acknowledge that the circumstances aren't quite the same: Pellegrini's departure is still a possibility rather than a certainty and, as noted above, there's plenty of other, more quotidian reasons we might look to.

Here all along I thought the book bad more to do with desperate questions than wise answers, with faith more than certainty, with searching more than finding.

Common issues include: correct price & terms to offer, seller temperament & motivation, sensitivity to request for repairs, and other real estate challenges where important decisions are made primarily on intuition, backed by experience and education, than certainty of fact.

Berger doesn't necessarily doubt that Jesus existed, but says that this is a statement of very strong probability rather than certainty.

Liberals encourage an openness to truth from any source, a tolerance for a variety of viewpoints, and a humility that bases its claims on probabilities rather than certainties.

Targets are chosen based on «patterns of behavior» rather than certainty, and it's ironic that just as the drone victims never see their attacker coming, Egan's team never meets their new boss.

They were concerned with the differentiations of colour rather than certainties, and the potential to develop an internal logic of colour names.

«Uncertainty should make us worry more than certainty, because uncertainty means that things can be worse than our best guess... in the case of climate change, uncertainty is asymmetrical and things are more likely to be worse, rather than better, than expected.»

Trump's win will bring certain volatility to the markets, said Andrew Friedman, principal of the The Washington Update; Wall Street, after all, loves nothing more than certainty, and a Trump administration will have little of that, at least at first.