Failure saves lives. In the airline industry, every time a plane crashes the probability of the next crash is lowered by that. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
Synchronicity: A meaningful coincidence of two or more events where something other than the probability of chance is involved. — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Your probability of being a billionaire is higher if you don't make that your goal. Just focus on making a company that… — MrBeast Copy Share Image
Only in Britain could it be thought a defect to be too clever by half. The probability is that too many people… — John Major Copy Share Image
“A good decision cannot guarantee a good outcome. All real decisions are made under uncertainty. A decision is therefore a bet, and… — Ward Edwards Copy Share Image
A person who is psychic is following a line of probability to see a probable future; but it can change. Another causal… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
When you know absolutely nothing about the topic, make your forecast by asking a carefully selected probability sample of 300 others who… — Edgar Fiedler Copy Share Image
Earlier attempts to show that simpler theories always have higher prior probabilities have failed, but there is a restricted circumstance in which… — Elliott Sober Copy Share Image
When I was 16 I started keeping a diary in which I recorded my disagreements with the famous philosophers. I didn't insist… — Albert Ellis Copy Share Image
To those of us who have been following the climate debate for decades, the next few years will be electrifying. There is… — Ross McKitrick Copy Share Image
Everybody knows you're going to miss some. It's just the reality and the probability of it. It's the ultimate paradox for a… — Nate Kaeding Copy Share Image
At 55 I said the probability is I won't have another relationship. I just didn't want to start another family. Between my… — Jack Nicholson Copy Share Image
Customers are wrestling with mission-critical decisions, evaluating solutions that all sound the same, and struggling to achieve the value they expect, when… — Jeff Thull Copy Share Image
The prospect, that a good general government will in all human probability be soon established in America, affords me more substantial satisfaction;… — George Washington Copy Share Image
I do object to the assumption that anything that might be outside of nature is ruled out of the conversation. That's an… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Certainty is not biologically possible. We must learn (and teach our children) to tolerate the unpleasantness of uncertainty. Science has given us… — Robert A. Burton Copy Share Image
One: demonstrations always crash. And two: the probability of them crashing goes up exponentially with the number of people watching. — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
Entropy theory, on the other hand, is not concerned with the probability of succession in a series of items but with the… — Rudolf Arnheim Copy Share Image
“Statistically, the probability of any one of us being here is so small that the mere fact of our existence should keep… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
A good test case is a test case that has a high probability of detecting an undiscovered error, not a test case… — Glenford Myers Copy Share Image
We continue to adhere to a common-sense view of risk - how much we can lose and the probability of losing it.… — Seth Klarman Copy Share Image
The office of science is not to record possibilities; but to ascertain what nature does ... As far as Darwinism deals with… — Louis Agassiz Copy Share Image
Meanwhile, little people like you and me, if our prayers are sometimes granted, beyond all hope and probability, had better not draw… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The Three Theorems of Psychohistorical Quantitivity: The population under scrutiny is oblivious to the existence of the science of Psychohistory. The time… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Most of us think that we are 'better than average' in most things. We are also 'miscalibrated,' meaning that our sense of… — Richard Thaler Copy Share Image
The emotionally mature individual should completely accept the fact that we live in a world of probability and chance, where there are… — Albert Ellis Copy Share Image
For the first time in living memory, the whole class of graduates faces a future of crushing debt, and a high probability,… — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
My favourite fellow of the Royal Society is the Reverend Thomas Bayes, an obscure 18th-century Kent clergyman and a brilliant mathematician who… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
Its not even probable, let alone scientifically proven, that HIV causes AIDS. If there is evidence that HIV causes AIDS, there should… — Kary Mullis Copy Share Image
At one level, SXSW exemplifies serendipity, because whenever I come, I get these unexpected meetings with people I never knew existed, and… — John Hagel III Copy Share Image
Okay, look at it this way: if the evening news has a very high probability of being accurate, then it's highly improbable… — William Lane Craig Copy Share Image
A further aspect I should like to discuss is what I call the practice of infinite escape clauses. I believe we developed… — Sidney W. Fox Copy Share Image
It was wonderful love that Christ should rather die for us than for the angels that fell. They were creatures of a… — Thomas Watson Copy Share Image
If you do not have at least an eight-month emergency fund, and you think there's a probability you could loose your job… — Suze Orman Copy Share Image
The incomplete knowledge of a system must be an essential part of every formulation in quantum theory. Quantum theoretical laws must be… — Werner Heisenberg Copy Share Image
The representatives of business interests are the men to start this enterprise among our people and bring them to a full realization… — John J. Pershing Copy Share Image
But the indeterminate future is somehow one in which probability and statistics are the dominant modality for making sense of the world.… — Peter Thiel Copy Share Image
According to theism, if a universe is to have any probability of existing, this probability is dependent upon God's beliefs, desires and… — Quentin Smith Copy Share Image
If you equate the probability of the birth of a bacteria cell to chance assembly of its atoms, eternity will not suffice… — Christian de Duve Copy Share Image
Some reasonable term ought to be allowed to enable aliens to get rid of foreign and acquire American attachments; to learn the… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
