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The two Great Unknowns, the two Illustrious Conjecturabilities! They are the best known unknown persons that have ever drawn breath upon the planet. -- Mark Twain
There's always the risk that there are unknown unknowns. -- Nate Silver
Birth and death; we all move between these two unknowns. -- Bryant H. McGill
The world is divided into two categories: failures and unknowns. -- Francis Picabia
I think every year brings unknowns that you have to deal with and handle, confront and embrace. -- Bjork
Tinkering is a way of understanding difficult problems, of wrapping our heads around them and quantifying the unknowns. -- Gever Tulley
From the dawn of history, science has probed the universe of unknowns, searching for the uniting laws of nature. -- Ahmed Zewail
The interesting thing about Bettie Page that I discovered was to leave the mystery. She always retained a little mystery. Let there be some unknowns. -- Gretchen Mol
I was interested in big unknowns, and the brain is one of the biggest, so building tools that allow us to regard the brain as a big electrical circuit appealed to me. -- Edward Boyden
For a found-footage-style movie, there's a definite advantage in using unknowns, because it helps sell the illusion that it's real. A known actor would get in the way of the suspension of disbelief. -- Oren Peli
I am looking for unknowns who are passionate and mission-based. But I don't try to tout the next great thing I want to get in front of, because I don't set that course. The entrepreneurs do that. -- Jim Goetz
There are known knowns. These are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns. That is to say, there are things that we know we don't know. But there are also unknown unknowns. There are things we don't know we don't know. -- Donald Rumsfeld
A lot of scientists on Earth think of things that they could do in zero g. Things like the way metals cure, for example, and the way fluids react in space can tell us a lot about some of the unknowns we have on Earth. -- Kevin A. Ford
When I got diagnosed, the more research I did about it - MS overall, as a subject, as a disease - there's a lot of misconceptions and there's a lot of unknowns about it, and there wasn't anyone out that was close to my age or close to anything like me out there. -- Jack Osbourne
I'm interested in the murky areas where there are no clear answers - or sometimes multiple answers. It's here that I try to imagine patterns or codes to make sense of the unknowns that keep us up at night. I'm also interested in the invisible space between people in communication; the space guided by translation and misinterpretation. -- Taryn Simon
We know there are certain types of viruses that are nasty - influenza, for instance, is an area that is not a blindside. But a lot of viruses have come out of nowhere, like H.I.V., or to a certain extent SARS. Because we know we have the potential to be blindsided, we really have to investigate the unknowns. -- Nathan Wolfe
The world may hold startling developments and shocking unknowns. -- Jon Spaihts
There are two unknowns in the World. The Poles and the Turks! -- Albert Sorel
Link Wray and Gene Vincent.... two of the greatest unknowns of rock 'n' roll. -- John Lennon
There are known knowns and known unknowns, but what we should be worried about most is the unknown unknowns. -- Gary Marcus
Many of the big changes of the next 25 years will come from unknowns working in their bedrooms and garages... -- Charles W. Leadbeater
Mobile didn't create more unknowns for web designers. It just forced us to recognize the unknowns that were already there. -- Jeremy Keith
Words have meaning beyond the obvious. Words have consequences beyond intentions. Civil words align risk and reward of such unknowns. -- John R. Dallas Jr.
As known unknowns become known; unknown unknowns proliferate; the larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder. -- Huston Smith
You can learn to find unknowns in equations, draw equidistant lines and demonstrate theorems, but in real life there's nothing to position, calculate, or guess. -- Delphine de Vigan
[My poetry is] a way of coming to grips with reality . . . a way of discovery and definition. It is a way of solving for the unknowns. -- Robert Hayden
The problem with certainty is that it is static; it can do little but endlessly reassert itself. Uncertainty, by contrast, is full of unknowns, possibilities, and risks. (65) -- Stephen Batchelor
Another thing he told his customers was that one of the great accounting unknowns of the modern age was how to value knowledge. It was an exciting field. -- Jane Smiley
What people dont know about you people create. Imagination is a part of being human. They fill in the unknowns with assumptions and not facts. Every man and woman is a mystery unrevealed. -- R.M. Engelhardt
A sense of the unknown has always lured mankind and the greatest of the unknowns of today is outer space. The terrors, the joys and the sense of accomplishment are epitomized in the space program. -- William Shatner

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