Jun

26

Online publication Nautilus Magazine has an edition devoted to uncertainty.

Here are a couple of quotes from different essays:

Nautilus' second issue is all about the uncertainty that is baked into our modern world. We explore how everything from quantum particles to humans themselves turns out to be undetermined in ways that upset expectations. Even mathematics itself—the language of logic—includes statements that can be proven to be neither true nor false. In this issue's first chapter, "Uncertainty in Nature," we tell you stories about the boundaries of the knowable.

from "Uncertainty" by Michael Segal

Put another way, our cognition, so limitless in the development of the natural sciences, seems the most fallible when, in walking down the street, we meet a stranger coming from the other direction, and, symmetrically polite, both move left and right in a frustrated attempt to make way.

from "The Coin Toss and the Love Triangle" by Simon Dedeo


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