“If nature has taught us anything it is that the impossible is probable” — Ilyas Kassam Copy Share Image
Free yourself from the rigid conduct of tradition and open yourself to the new forms of probability. — Hans Bender Copy Share Image
Psychology helps to measure the probability that an aim is attainable. — Edward Thorndike Copy Share Image
Hope is the confusion of the desire for a thing with its probability. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Blind nature will nearly always select the most probable, but man can let the most improbable become actual. — Hans Jonas Copy Share Image
With caution judge of probability. Things deemed unlikely, e'en impossible, experience oft hath proved to be true. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
If you look like your passport photo, in all probability you need the journey. — Earl Wilson Copy Share Image
“...a case of what I call the high probability of the improbable.” — Robert James Waller Copy Share Image
A reasonable scale of probability-what is likely-forbids believing a whole range of imaginative possibilities, even though we do not know anything for… — Jennifer Michael Hecht Copy Share Image
It is profitable wisdom to know when we have done enough: Much time and pains are spared in not flattering ourselves against… — William Penn Copy Share Image
Mental Management is the process of maximising the probability of having a consistent mental performance, under pressure, on demand — Lanny Bassham Copy Share Image
“It's Hard, Not to Fail, but, there is Always a Chance of Success. Of course, there is No Chance of Success, if… — Vineet Raj Kapoor Copy Share Image
The probability I knock out Chael Sonnen is very big. Man, everybody knows his game. He is never going to take me… — Wanderlei Silva Copy Share Image
In the beginning there were only probabilities. The universe could only come into existence if someone observed it. It does not matter… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The artist reserves the right to remove a blot on the landscape, to change positions of things, to suit his composition, providing… — Walter J. Phillips Copy Share Image
No man will be found in whose mind airy notions do not sometimes tyrannize, and force him to hope or fear beyond… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“I am no friend of probability theory, I have hated it from the first moment when our dear friend Max Born gave… — Erwin Schrödinger Copy Share Image
In quantum mechanics there is A causing B. The equations do not stand outside that usual paradigm of physics. The real issue… — Brian Greene Copy Share Image
The probability for the chance of formation of the smallest, simplest form of living organism known is 1 to 10340,000,000… The size… — Harold Morowitz Copy Share Image
A scientist worthy of a lab coat should be able to make original discoveries while wearing a clown suit, or give a… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
Even the humblest men have a strange reason behind greed. Every man thinks money solves problems - and every man thinks not… — Siddharth Katragadda Copy Share Image
In all probability the Human Genome Project will, someday, find that I carry some recessive gene for optimism, because despite all my… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
If you get rid of emotion for a minute and think about the threat of terrorism statistically, it's not even there. The… — Pavel Durov Copy Share Image
“Occasionally I glanced at the big blue cradle of civilization hanging in the sky, remembered for the fiftieth or sixtieth or one… — Adam-Troy Castro Copy Share Image
“He could not believe that any of them might actually hit somebody. If one did, what a nowhere way to go: killed… — James Jones Copy Share Image
Very few people would choose to have even the most fabled assortment of goods if it meant getting cancer within the year.… — Paul L Wachtel Copy Share Image
“Among all the occurrences possible in the universe the a priori probability of any particular one of them verges upon zero. Yet… — Jacques Monod Copy Share Image
“There is always opportunity cost in choosing one path over others. The betting elements of decisions—choice, probability, risk, etc.—are more obvious in… — Annie Duke Copy Share Image
The issue, as correctly emphasized by Carl Sagan, is the probability of the evolution of high intelligence and an electronic civilization on… — Ernst Mayr Copy Share Image
“Another mistaken notion connected with the law of large numbers is the idea that an event is more or less likely to… — Leonard Mlodinow Copy Share Image
“Perhaps the most striking illustration of Bayes’s theorem comes from a riddle that a mathematics teacher that I knew would pose to… — Siddhartha Mukherjee Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
![“I am no friend of probability theory, I have hated it from the first moment when our dear friend Max Born gave it birth. For it could be seen how easy and simple it made everything, in principle, everything ironed and the true problems concealed. Everybody must jump on the bandwagon [Ausweg]. And…” quote by Erwin Schrödinger](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/734/erwin-schrodinger-8450_born_i-am-no-friend-of-probability-theory-i-h_434486.jpg)
