It’s hard to speculate what tomorrow may bring.

I spent a lot of years trying to outrun or outsmart vulnerability by making things certain and definite, black and white, good and bad. My inability to lean into the discomfort of vulnerability limited the fullness of those important experiences that are wrought with uncertainty: Love, belonging, trust, joy, and creativity to name a few.

I desire no future that will break the ties with the past.

The absolute transformation of everything that we ever thought about music will take place within 10 years, and nothing is going to be able to stop it. I see absolutely no point in pretending that it’s not going to happen. I’m fully confident that copyright, for instance, will no longer exist in 10 years.

Indeed, I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.

Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be.

Though men determine, the gods doo dispose: and oft times many things fall out betweene the cup and the lip.

If we have an atom that is in an excited state and so is going to emit a photon, we cannot say when it will emit the photon. It has a certain amplitude to emit the photon at any time, and we can predict only a probability for emission; we cannot predict the future exactly.

I must have been one of the least surprised people on earth on September 11. I felt very braced for that. I knew something like that was going to come.

Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.

The more I see the less I know for sure.

I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.

Ironically, parenting is a shame and judgment minefield precisely because most of us are wading through uncertainty and self-doubt when it comes to raising our children.

Part of the reason there’s an injunction to the truth, for example, is that if you’re in a circumstance of extreme uncertainty, your best weapon, let’s say, or your best tool or your best defense is the truth, because it keeps things simpler.

I’m very careful about saying who would and wouldn’t go to heaven. I don’t know.

The true history of my administration will be written 50 years from now, and you and I will not be around to see it.

The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.

Our lifetime may be the last that will be lived out in a technological society.

Often, I can scarcely hear any one speaking to me; the tones yes, but not the actual words; yet as soon as any one shouts, it is unbearable. What will come of all this, heaven only knows!

The symbolism of the climate strike is that if you adults don’t give a damn about my future, I won’t either.

No great deed is done by falterers who ask for certainty.

I really want to love somebody. I do. I just don’t know if it’s possible forever and ever.

Why not invest in the future of music, instead of building fortresses to preserve its past?

It is in the admission of ignorance and the admission of uncertainty that there is a hope for the continuous motion of human beings in some direction that doesn’t get confined, permanently blocked, as it has so many times before in various periods in the history of man.

I don’t think the human mind can comprehend the past and the future. They are both just illusions that can manipulate you into thinking theres some kind of change.

Once I knew only darkness and stillness… my life was without past or future… but a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hand that clutched at emptiness, and my heart leaped to the rapture of living.

Our lifelong certainties about the world can be demolished in a single second.

There is no author whose books I look forward to more than Vaclav Smil.

Change is always tough. Even for those who see themselves as agents of change, the process of starting a new thing can cause times of disorientation, uncertainty and insecurity.

Scientific views end in awe and mystery, lost at the edge in uncertainty, but they appear to be so deep and so impressive that the theory that it is all arranged as a stage for God to watch man’s struggle for good and evil seems inadequate.

A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.

We sail within a vast sphere, ever drifting in uncertainty, driven from end to end.

I hate cameras. They are so much more sure than I am about everything.

I really do encourage other manufacturers to bring electric cars to market. It’s a good thing, and they need to bring it to market and keep iterating and improving and make better and better electric cars, and that’s what going to result in humanity achieving a sustainable transport future. I wish it was growing faster than it is.

You can always cope with the present moment, but you cannot cope with something that is only a mind projection – you cannot cope with the future.

The more cats you have, the longer you live. If you have a hundred cats, you’ll live 10 times longer than if you have 10. Someday this will be discovered, and people will have a thousand cats and live forever. It’s truly ridiculous.

Indecision may or may not be my problem.

The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.

Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.

As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss.

I think we have a duty to maintain the light of consciousness to make sure it continues into the future.

Expecting is the greatest impediment to living. In anticipation of tomorrow, it loses today.

Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time, and may therefore be demanded back the next hour.

We are at the very beginning of time for the human race. It is not unreasonable that we grapple with problems. But there are tens of thousands of years in the future. Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on.

While I take inspiration from the past, like most Americans, I live for the future.

I am confident that when the facts and policies have been examined, when the record of performances have been reviewed, Barack Obama and Joe Biden will once again be elected to lead our beloved country to a better future.

We can fear things into existence. Fear looks into the future and imagines the worst that can happen.

One is never afraid of the unknown; one is afraid of the known coming to an end.

Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children’s future. And we are all mortal.

The value of beauty and inspiration is very much underrated, no question. But I want to be clear: I’m not trying to be anyone’s savior. I’m just trying to think about the future and not be sad.

The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life.

Some day, following the example of the United States of America, there will be a United States of Europe.

You know, nothing is more important than education, because nowhere are our stakes higher; our future depends on the quality of education of our children today.

I did used to have nightmares about the idea that when I die, there is a spark of consciousness which basically creates the world. ‚Is the world going to disappear if this spark of consciousness disappears? And how do I know it won’t? How do I know there’s anything there except what I’m conscious of?‘

Our problem right now is that we’re so specialized that if the lights go out, there are a huge number of people who are not going to know what to do. But within every dystopia there’s a little utopia.

We can, for example, be fairly confident that either there will be a world without war or there won’t be a world – at least, a world inhabited by creatures other than bacteria and beetles, with some scattering of others.

This healthy eating stuff, it’s here to stay, and we now have everything we need to seize the opportunity and give all our kids the healthy futures they so richly deserve.

On one of my last days at school, the headmaster said I would either end up in prison or become a millionaire. That was quite a startling prediction, but in some respects, he was right on both counts!

We know what we are, but know not what we may be.

When I was a little girl, I always dreamed of being a star. I didn’t really know what all that meant. I didn’t know.

The most savage controversies are about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.