“Evil was predictable, always painfully expected.”

“He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.”

“When choosing the lesser of two evils, always remember, it is still an evil.”

“Evil must always be fought.”

“If trouble comes when you least expect it then maybe the thing to do is to always expect it.”

“Expect nothing and you'll always be surprised”

“However, it is always nice to be expected, and not to arrive.”

“Evil to some is always good to others”

“Of two evils, the less is always to be chosen.”

“At the same time, as Hayek maintained elsewhere, the facts of the social sciences do not lend themselves to the same degree of prediction, or explanation, as the facts of the natural sciences—it is for this reason that there are degrees of prediction or explanation. Prediction may be expressed numerically, moreover, “not as a unique value or magnitude but as a range,” narrow in the natural sciences and potentially very broad in the social sciences. In the social sciences, Hayek modified the conception of a numerical range to a “range of phenomena to expect.””