In flying, the probability of survival is inversely proportional to the angle of arrival. — Neil Armstrong Copy Share Image
Anything is possible, but not always probable. Innovators increase the probability of the impossible. — Braden Kelley Copy Share Image
The grand assertion is that you must see the world through probability and that probability is the only guide you need. — Dennis Lindley Copy Share Image
Consider nothing impossible, then treat possiblities as probabilities. — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Misunderstanding of probability may be the greatest of all impediments to scientific literacy. — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
“bottom of the list. No one there has a probability over ten percent. I’ve got a couple who hit low” — J.D. Robb Copy Share Image
Scientists are stuck in this belief that we tell people probabilities, not absolute answers. — Stephen Schneider Copy Share Image
Imagination is a good horse to carry you over the ground - not a flying carpet to set you free from probability. — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
Leadership both projects to the future and reflects upon the past. It bursts with possibilities, flaunts peculiarities, and occasionally defies probabilities. — Marcia Whicker Copy Share Image
The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
The probability of a fatal nuclear detonation is greater now than at any time during the Cold War. As the Russian military… — Alan Cranston Copy Share Image
There is no reason to regard God as immune from consideration along the spectrum of probabilities. And there is certainly no reason… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Even if we could be certain that one of the world's religions were perfectly true, given the sheer number of conflicting faiths… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
All that belongs to human understanding, in this deep ignorance and obscurity, is to be sceptical, or at least cautious, and not… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Statistical high Vegas odds probability is that nothing of any significance will ever happen to you in your entire boring life. — Doug Stanhope Copy Share Image
“The quantum theory is based on the idea that there is a probability that all possible events, no matter how fantastic or… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
No idea for a new growth business ever comes fully shaped. When it emerges, it's half-baked, and it then goes through a… — Clayton Christensen Copy Share Image
The earth in its rapid motion round the sun possesses a degree of living force so vast that, if turned into the… — James Prescott Joule Copy Share Image
The stone that Dr. Johnson once kicked to demonstrate the reality of matter has become dissipated in a diffuse distribution of mathematical… — Morris Kline Copy Share Image
If you sat with a pencil and jotted down all the decisions you've taken in the past week, or, if you could,… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
“You were born a winner, a warrior, one who defied the odds by surviving the most gruesome battle of them all -… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
If you go back and look at the history of Supreme Court fights from the very beginning there is a corresponding interest,… — Joe Biden Copy Share Image
I am convinced that it is impossible to expound the methods of induction in a sound manner, without resting them upon the… — William Stanley Jevons Copy Share Image
It is only through the psyche that we can establish that God acts upon us, but we are unable to distinguish whether… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
A point of great importance would be first to know: what is the capacity of the earth? And what charge does it… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
He went to bed early, but could not fall asleep. He was haunted by sad and gloomy reflections about the inevitable end-… — Ivan Turgenev Copy Share Image
If to enjoy even an enjoyable present we must have the assurance of a happy future, we are “crying for the moon.”… — Alan Watts 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
Expert estimates of probability are often off by factors of hundreds or thousands. [...] I used to be annoyed when the margin… — Nate Silver Copy Share Image
As I have heard, since my arrival at this place, a circumstantial account of my death and dying speech, I take this… — George Washington Copy Share Image
The difficulty in judging what type of behavior works well arises not only because a given course of action does not always… — Albert Bandura Copy Share Image
The approach and strategies are very similar in that you gather all the information you can and then keep adding to that… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
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