When asked what he meant by a miracle: Oh, anything with a probability of less than 20%. — Enrico Fermi Copy Share Image
“You, dear reader, have now two accounts to choose between and there can be no doubt which is most probable.” — Alasdair Gray Copy Share Image
The moment of enlightenment is when a person's dreams of possibilities become images of probabilities. — Vic Braden Copy Share Image
In all probability an outburst of desperation in the midst of general submissiveness will always help. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
We balance probabilities and choose the most likely. It is the scientific use of the imagination. — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
Women are sometimes drawn in to believe against probability by the unwillingness they have to doubt their own merit. — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
A man must study general conditions, to seize them so as to be able to anticipate probabilities. — Jesse Lauriston Livermore Copy Share Image
The probability that we will get into a car accident is a million times higher than the probability we will suffer as… — Pavel Durov Copy Share Image
The greatest threat now is a 9/11 occurring with a group of terrorists armed not with airline tickets and box cutters, but… — Dick Cheney Copy Share Image
If WE claim only reasonable probability, it will be as much as men who love the truth can ever at any given… — William James Copy Share Image
Wisdom - meaning judgment acting on experience, common sense, available knowledge, and a decent appreciation of probability. — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
The true power is in the imagination which dares to speculate upon that which is not yet. The imagination, backed by great… — Seth Copy Share Image
You must maximize the probability that someone shows up at front door of your store or website and ends up with a… — Drew Houston Copy Share Image
Consider the case of a person who holds a view with probability 1. Then coherence says that it is no use having… — Dennis Lindley Copy Share Image
If in a discussion of many matters ... we are not able to give perfectly exact and self-consistent accounts, do not be… — Plato Copy Share Image
In a business setting, one's intelligence is crucial. Many problems faced by today's executives are unique and ill-defined. So, one's ability to… — Justin Menkes Copy Share Image
Mrs. Boffin, insisting that Bella should make tomorrow's expedition in the chariot, she went home in great grandeur. Mrs. Wilfer and Miss… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Further, the same Arguments which explode the Notion of Luck, may, on the other side, be useful in some Cases to establish… — Abraham de Moivre Copy Share Image
“The law of probability combined with the law of large numbers states that to beat the odds, sometimes you have to repeat… — Jojo Moyes Copy Share Image
First, the only certainty is that there is no certainty. Second, every decision, as a consequence, is a matter of weighing probabilities.… — Robert Rubin Copy Share Image
In all probability, when the 1919 series is over, a diagnosis of it will show that the final result was brought about… — Billy Evans Copy Share Image
I teach something called The Law of Probabilities, which says the more things you try, the more likely one of them will… — Jack Canfield Copy Share Image
The high probability is if American forces withdraw from Afghanistan and if no alternative international arrangement is made that then the historic… — Henry Kissinger Copy Share Image
Human intellectual progress, such as it has been, results from our long struggle to see things 'as they are,' or in the… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
Contemporary scholars have little explored the preconditions of genocide. Still less have they asked whether a society's weapons policy might be one… — Daniel D. Polsby Copy Share Image
Have I ever remarked on how completely ridiculous it is to ask high school students to decide what they want to do… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
“The Coin of Life example: Say you have a coin with heads on one side and tails on the other side. One… — Virgil Kalyana Mittata Iordache Copy Share Image
So in this case, Kalamas, don't go by reports, by legends, by traditions, by scripture, by logical conjecture, by inference, by analogies,… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
The lower the family income, the higher the probability that the mother must work. Today, 1 out of 5 of these working… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
It is, I believe, justifiable to make the generalization that anything an organic chemist can synthesize can be made without him. All… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We come finally, however, to the relation of the ideal theory to real world, or "real" probability. If he is consistent a… — John Edensor Littlewood Copy Share Image
The balance of probabilities, therefore, comes out strongly against the existence of a god. — J. L. Mackie Copy Share Image
We may not be able to get certainty, but we can get probability, and half a loaf is better than no bread. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
