Probability but no truth, facility but no freedom--it is owing to these two fruits that the tree of knowledge cannot be confused… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“She thought of the boy's features as an exquisite distillation out of random patterns-endless queues of happenstance meeting at this nexus.” — Frank Herbert 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
Before you invest, you must ensure that you have realistically assessed your probability of being right and how you will react to… — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
If zero percent of the elites support something, very low chance it's going to pass, if 100% support something, very high chance… — Lawrence Lessig Copy Share Image
The historical museum has to be very conservative and careful in its choices. The modern museum, on the other hand, has to… — Alfred H. Barr, Jr Copy Share Image
The most sublime efforts of philosophy can extend no farther than feebly to point out the desire, the hope, or, at most,… — Edward Gibbon 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 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
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
How can one know who his spiritual teacher is?...His heart looks at the spiritual Masters and makes the choice. When the heart… — Sri Chinmoy 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
I also, as I think most people do, have a healthy instinct that if we upset the balance of nature, we are… — Tony Blair Copy Share Image
Sometimes what's recommended to the people is something different than what's recommended to the leaders, because I have been recommended to use… — Nayib Bukele 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
The best practical advice then is: try to maximize your expected payoff, which is the sum of all payoffs multiplied by probabilities. — Howard Raiffa Copy Share Image
They were being driven to a prison, through no fault of their own, in all probability for life. In comparison, how much… — Nellie Bly Copy Share Image
There is a great probability that our loss of capacity for enjoying the positive joys of life is largely due to the… — Lin Yutang Copy Share Image
In an environment where you've got to push innovations out the door fast and keep the cost of innovation low, the probability… — Clayton Christensen 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
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
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
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
“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
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
You know that, according to quantum theory, if two particles collide with enough energy you can, in principle, with an infinitesimal probability,… — Isidor Isaac Rabi Copy Share Image
Expansions do not die of old age. The probability of recession in the following year is the same for a three-year-old expansion… — Edgar Fiedler Copy Share Image
Investing is not a natural science but rather a social science. So, it's never purely empirical; what you are trying to do… — William Browne Copy Share Image
The certainty that life cannot be long, and the probability that it will be much shorter than nature allows, ought to awaken… — Samuel L. Jackson Copy Share Image
If a lack of empirical foundations is a defect of the theory of logical probability, it is also a defect of deductive… — David Stove Copy Share Image
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