Probability Quotes

“The logic of limitless probability”

— Rob Kircher

“Probability of helping someone with your tongue is low”

— Fathima Fabeela

Life is a school of probability.

— Walter Bagehot

“What luck has gave you will probably leave you.”

— Amit Kalantri

“science cannot even make probability judgements on”

— Richard Dawkins

Even very low-probability events can, and indeed do, occur.

— Gavin Extence

Probabilities direct the conduct of the wise man.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“probability is principally a branch of applied skepticism,”

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Just the more people you talk to, the higher the probability is you'll get something that's really one of a kind.

— John Wilson

Digital television is no longer a probability, it is a certainty.

— Tessa Jowell

I think the probability of a supernatural creator existing is very very low,

— Richard Dawkins

... the novelist is bound by the reasonable possibilities, not the probabilities, of his culture.

— Flannery O'Connor

The province of faith begins where probabilities cease and sight and sense fail.

— George Muller

Fourth Law of Thermodynamics: If the probability of success is not almost one, then it is damn near zero.

— David R. Ellis

When asked what he meant by a miracle: Oh, anything with a probability of less than 20%.

— Enrico Fermi

“Every other question has an answer to why. Only probability is inexplicable.”

— Scott Adams

The greatest threat now is a 9/11 occurring with a group of terrorists armed not with airline tickets and box cutters, but…

— Dick Cheney

If WE claim only reasonable probability, it will be as much as men who love the truth can ever at any given…

— William James

Wisdom - meaning judgment acting on experience, common sense, available knowledge, and a decent appreciation of probability.

— Barbara Tuchman

The true power is in the imagination which dares to speculate upon that which is not yet. The imagination, backed by great…

— Seth

...99 percent confident that the world really was getting warmer and that there was a high degree of probability that it was…

— James Hansen

The probability that we will get into a car accident is a million times higher than the probability we will suffer as…

— Pavel Durov

Consider the case of a person who holds a view with probability 1. Then coherence says that it is no use having…

— Dennis Lindley

You must maximize the probability that someone shows up at front door of your store or website and ends up with a…

— Drew Houston

One influential philosophical position about the use of probability in science holds that probabilities are objective only if they are based on…

— Elliott Sober

“We either base our 'confidence' on reason (evident probabilities, past experience, competence, etc) or we base our beliefs on faith, which is…

— AronRa

If scientific reasoning were limited to the logical processes of arithmetic, we should not get very far in our understanding of the…

— Vannevar Bush

I've debated many economists who claim to specialize in risk and probability: when one takes them slightly outside their narrow focus, but…

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

The road is a strange place. Shuffling along, I looked up and you were there walking across the grass toward my truck…

— Robert James Waller

One of the most basic and pervasive social processes is the sorting and labeling of things, activities, and people... Sorting and labeling…

— Thomas Sowell

“If the universe was scientific and just left to itself, then we’d have statistical probabilities to rely on. But once people are…

— Sara Sheridan

What geographic profiling does is it takes a look at the locations of a connected series of incidents - say murders in…

— Kim Rossmo

“4. Religion. Your reason is now mature enough to examine this object. In the first place, divest yourself of all bias in…

— Thomas Jefferson

The student who would build his knowledge on solid foundations, and proceed by just degrees to the pinnacles of truth, is directed…

— Samuel Johnson

I was speaking on the radio in South Texas [in 2016], and I was speaking to Hispanics, and I said 'You know,…

— Rafael Cruz

“One of the recent arguments from design, that based on the so-called fine-tuning life of some fundamental physical constants, founders on the…

— Colin Howson

“While most of us are comfortable acknowledging that luck plays a role in what we do, we have difficulty assessing its role…

— Michael J. Mauboussin

I am genuinely sorry for scientists of the younger generation who never knew Fisher personally. So long as you avoided a handful…

— Fred Hoyle

“The wave quality of light is the same as that of the electron. The wave determines the probable location of the photon…

— Marcus du Sautoy

A point of great importance would be first to know: what is the capacity of the earth? And what charge does it…

— Nikola Tesla