“You can’t talk to thermodynamics and you can’t pray to probability theory. You” — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
In no other branch of mathematics is it so easy for experts to blunder as in probability theory. — Martin Gardner Copy Share Image
Probability theory is nothing but common sense reduced to calculation. — Pierre-Simon Laplace Copy Share Image
A scientist worthy of a lab coat should be able to make original discoveries while wearing a clown suit, or give a… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
“Probability is orderly opinion and inference from data is nothing other than the revision of such opinion in the light of relevant… — Eliezer S. Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
I failed math twice, never fully grasping probability theory. I mean, first off, who cares if you pick a black ball or… — Janet Evanovich Copy Share Image
One of the most striking and fundamental things about probability theory is that it leads to an understanding of the otherwise strange… — Warren Weaver Copy Share Image
At a purely formal level, one could call probability theory the study of measure spaces with total measure one, but that would… — Terence Tao Copy Share Image
The theory of probabilities is at bottom nothing but common sense reduced to calculus; it enables us to appreciate with exactness that… — Pierre-Simon Laplace Copy Share Image
“I am no friend of probability theory, I have hated it from the first moment when our dear friend Max Born gave… — Erwin Schrödinger Copy Share Image
It was our use of probability theory as logic that has enabled us to do so easily what was impossible for those… — Edwin Thompson Jaynes Copy Share Image
![“I am no friend of probability theory, I have hated it from the first moment when our dear friend Max Born gave it birth. For it could be seen how easy and simple it made everything, in principle, everything ironed and the true problems concealed. Everybody must jump on the bandwagon [Ausweg]. And…” quote by Erwin Schrödinger](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/734/erwin-schrodinger-8450_born_i-am-no-friend-of-probability-theory-i-h_434486.jpg)
