The probability that we face global warming caused by fossil fuels is now so overwhelming that it is legitimate to doubt the… — Adair Turner, Baron Turner of Ecchinswell Copy Share Image
We can say with certainty - or 90% probability - that the new industries that are about to be born will have… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
He was at a starting point which makes many a man's career a fine subject for betting, if there were any gentlemen… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
There exists a world. In terms of probability this borders on the impossible. It would have been far more likely if, by… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
One would appear ridiculous who would say, that it is only probable the sun will rise to-morrow, or that all men must… — David Hume Copy Share Image
In the financial system we have today, with less risk concentrated in banks, the probability of systemic financial crises may be lower… — Timothy Geithner Copy Share Image
Use this day to do something daring, extraordinary and unlike yourself. Take a chance and shape a different pattern in your personal… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
The photographer, like an acrobat, must defy the laws of probability or even of possibility; at the limit, he must defy those… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
It was Darwin's chief contribution, not only to Biology but to the whole of natural science, to have brought to light a… — Ronald Fisher Copy Share Image
It has been pointed out already that no knowledge of probabilities, less in degree than certainty, helps us to know what conclusions… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
It may be laid down as a general rule, that their confidence in and obedience to a government, will be commonly proportioned… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Without doubt, matter is unlimited in extent, and, in this sense, infinite; and the forces of Nature mould it into an innumerable… — William Batchelder Greene Copy Share Image
According to PhD astrophysicists and qualified American science professors, the odds of the more than 2,500 prophecies found in the Bible being… — Hugh Ross Copy Share Image
We cannot judge either of the feelings or of the characters of men with perfect accuracy from their actions or their appearance… — Maria Edgeworth Copy Share Image
Thus we can get the correct answer for the probability of partial reflection by imagining (falsely) that all reflection comes from only… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
Not smoking enough will cause lung cancer! If anybody is getting a cancerous activity in the lung, the probabilities are that it's… — L. Ron Hubbard Copy Share Image
Protein synthesis is a central problem for the whole of biology, and that it is in all probability closely related to gene… — Francis Crick Copy Share Image
On their way toward modern science human beings have discarded meaning. The concept is replaced by the formula, the cause by rules… — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
There is no error which hath not some appearance of probability resembling truth, which, when men who study to be singular find… — Walter Raleigh Copy Share Image
I think we have to be very careful. If we do go back in, we need to understand why and what the… — Richard A. Clarke Copy Share Image
Seeking an acquisition from the start is more than just bad advice for an entrepreneur. For the entrepreneur it leads to short… — Vinod Khosla Copy Share Image
One important measurement issue concerns the fat tails problem that I mentioned earlier. VAR is concerned with extreme outcomes. If the tails… — John Hull Copy Share Image
“There is wisdom in madness, and strong probability of truth in all accusations, for people are complete, and everybody is capable of… — Joseph Heller Copy Share Image
Statement: A girl and a boy jump into a river. The boy swims over to the girl and says, "God, it's cold."… — Jenny Downham Copy Share Image
“The concept of randomness and coincidence will be obsolete when people can finally define a formulation of patterned interaction between all things… — Toba Beta [Betelgeuse Incident Copy Share Image
Where there's a will, there's a way. Hackers tend to find a way. Code is also expanding. More lines of code means… — Michael Demon Calce Copy Share Image
In this way, there is a strange alchemy to modern campaigning: a candidate must highlight the urgency of the choice facing voters… — Alex Wagner Copy Share Image
“There is asymmetry. Those who die do so very early in the game, while those who live go on living very long.… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
Yet there seemed to be some truth in the law of probability, according to which the chance of success is directly proportionate… — Kobo Abe Copy Share Image
The laws of history are as absolute as the laws of physics, and if the probabilities of error are greater, it is… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
There are errors which no wise man will treat with rudeness while there is a probability that they may be the refraction… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
The more connected that individual is to an issue they care about, the higher probability there is they will stay involved over… — Chris Hughes Copy Share Image
One must be careful with words. Words turn probabilities into facts and by sheer force of definition translate tendencies into habits. — Fay Weldon Copy Share Image
The calculus of probabilities, when confined within just limits, ought to interest, in an equal degree, the mathematician, the experimentalist, and the… — Francois Arago Copy Share Image
Card games are one of the best ways to teach basic maths skills. From adding up and multiplying to understanding probability, there… — Julia Hartley-Brewer Copy Share Image
Labeling and diagnosis is a catastrophic way to communicate. Telling other people what's wrong with them greatly reduces, almost to zero, the… — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
We are not good at recognizing distant threats even if their probability is 100%. Society ignoring [peak oil] is like the people… — James R. Schlesinger Copy Share Image
And by letting go of trying to control the uncontrollable...you ironically increase...the probability of getting what you want. — Michael Neill Copy Share Image
Every conjecture we can form with regard to the works of God has as little probability as the conjectures of a child… — Thomas Reid Copy Share Image
Generally, a betting system for which each wager depends only on present resources and present probability of success is known as a… — Richard Arnold Epstein Copy Share Image