The atheist, agnostic, or secularist ... should insist on the need to engage in a meaningful debate on the entire issue of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Nature prefers the more probable states to the less probable because in nature processes take place in the direction of greater probability.… — Max Planck Copy Share Image
I described to my patent lawyer our new algorithm-that I was hoping to patent- about detecting clustering, that involved three probabilities α… — Jennifer Tour Chayes Copy Share Image
“The probability of an event is the reason we have to believe that it has taken place, or that it will take… — Siméon Denis Poisson Copy Share Image
If you trace back all those links in the chain that had to be in place for me to be here, the… — Jim Al-Khalili 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
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
“That an organism will see the light, hear the night, or touch the wind is subject to probability. And that its perfection… — Dew Platt Copy Share Image
Given our inevitably incomplete knowledge about key structural aspects of an everchanging economy and the sometimes asymmetric costs or benefits of particular… — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
It is prima facie highly implausible that life as we know it is the result of a sequence of physical accidents together… — Thomas Nagel Copy Share Image
“There are C(n, k) ways to distribute a given event k-times in a string of n events. Hence, and now comes the… — Metin Bektas Copy Share Image
I cannot assume you will understand me. It is just as likely that as I invent what I want to say, you… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
I think you're begging the question," said Haydock, "and I can see looming ahead one of those terrible exercises in probability where… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
Pi is not merely the ubiquitous factor in high school geometry problems; it is stitched across the whole tapestry of mathematics, not… — Robert Kanigel Copy Share Image
All knowledge resolves itself into probability. ... In every judgment, which we can form concerning probability, as well as concerning knowledge, we… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Life cannot have had a random beginning. ... The trouble is that there are about two thousand enzymes, and the chance of… — Fred Hoyle Copy Share Image
We are not made safe from terrorists by helicopters, or missiles or boots on the ground. Nor is it drones, torture or… — Bret Weinstein Copy Share Image
If we have an atom that is in an excited state and so is going to emit a photon, we cannot say… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
We know the laws of trial and error, of large numbers and probabilities. We know that these laws are part of the… — Albert Claude Copy Share Image
For a film I shot on the most difficult mountain on God's wide earth in Patagonia for a sequence where there was… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
There is a radical and unprecedented shift [in war] that is part of the general transformation of civilization. First, understand that the… — George Friedman Copy Share Image
Coincidences, in general, are great stumbling blocks in the way of that class of thinkers who have been educated to know nothing… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
Do not personally give any more conscious consideration, either of you, to events that you do not want to happen. Any such… — Seth Copy Share Image
Some periods of our growth are so confusing that we don't even recognize that growth is happening...Those long periods when something inside… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
You travel life has the aspect of a dream. It is something outside the normal, yet you are in it. It is… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
Current organisms have a higher probability of sharing a single code if the common ancestry hypothesis is true than they'd have if… — Elliott Sober Copy Share Image
Given our inevitably incomplete knowledge about key structural aspects of our ever-changing economy and the sometimes asymmetric costs or benefits of particular… — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
It is only by fidelity in little things that the grace of true love to God can be sustained, and distinguished from… — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
Frankly, I've had the opportunity to get certain accolades, make it to the conference finals, get awards, all this other stuff that… — Daryl Morey Copy Share Image
However, the small probability of a similar encounter [of the earth with a comet], can become very great in adding up over… — Pierre-Simon Laplace Copy Share Image
“Try calculating the probability of getting a call from an old friend after just thinking about them. Or, your favorite song coming… — Charles F. Glassman Copy Share Image
The percent likelihood of a society becoming physically violent if it is physically affectionate towards its infants and tolerant of premarital sexual… — James W. Prescott Copy Share Image
Is it conceivable that a newly emancipated people can soar to the heights of liberty, and, unlike Icarus, neither have its wings… — Simon Bolivar Copy Share Image
All empty souls tend to extreme opinion. It is only in those who have built up a rich world of memories and… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
Rather, risk is a perception in each investor's mind that results from analysis of the probability and amount of potential loss from… — Seth Klarman Copy Share Image
If we only identify with the mortal world, then we identify with a level of scarcity and lack and brokenness, and that… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
Without any doubt, the regularity which astronomy shows us in the movements of the comets takes place in all phenomena. The trajectory… — Pierre-Simon Laplace Copy Share Image
The source of Pyrrhonism comes from failing to distinguish between a demonstration, a proof and a probability. A demonstration supposes that the… — Andrew Michael Ramsay Copy Share Image
When you turn from one room to the next, when your animal senses no longer perceive the sounds of the dishwasher, the… — Robert Lanza Copy Share Image
People in suburbia see trees differently than foresters do. They cherish every one. It is useless to speak of the probability that… — Roger Swain Copy Share Image
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