Probability Quotes · Page 7

I don’t mind the low probability of success, but it better be impactful if we do succeed.

— Vinod Khosla

In no other branch of mathematics is it so easy for experts to blunder as in probability theory.

— Martin Gardner

We make investment decisions based on our evaluation of the most profitable combination of probabilities.

— Warren Buffett

The consequences of an act affect the probability of its occurring again.

— B. F. Skinner

“If I had stayed working in Florida, there is a high probability I would have died in hurricane Ian.”

— Steven Magee

We often regret we did not do otherwise, when that very otherwise would, in all probability, have done for us.

— Charles Caleb Colton

Reason can get you to probability, but only commitment can get you to certainty.

— Anonymous

As for a future life, every man must judge for himself between conflicting vague probabilities.

— Charles Darwin

If Death stepped miraculously through the glass and came in after you, in all probability you just got up and went along…

— J. D. Salinger

There is certainly the intention of efforts like the Common Core to raise education standards and make sure that every student masters…

— Anya Kamenetz

When a person feels disposed to over estimate his own importance, let him remember that mankind got along very well before his…

— Charles Simmons

The theory of probability is the only mathematical tool available to help map the unknown and the uncontrollable. It is fortunate that…

— Benoit Mandelbrot

There are no absolute certainties in this universe. A man must try to whip order into a yelping pack of probabilities, and…

— Jack Vance

Almost all thinking people agree that you should not have probability 1 (or 0) for any event, other than one demonstrable by…

— Dennis Lindley

Should the States reject this excellent Constitution, the probability is, an opportunity will never again offer to cancel another in peacethe next…

— George Washington

I know too well that these arguments from probabilities are imposters, and unless great caution is observed in the use of them,…

— Plato

It appears that there are enormous differences of opinion as to the probability of a failure with loss of vehicle and of…

— Richard P. Feynman

“And some scientists and other intellectuals are convinced—too eagerly in my view—that the question of God's existence belongs in the forever inaccessible…

— Richard Dawkins

People are entirely too disbelieving of coincidence. They are far too ready to dismiss it and to build arcane structures of extremely…

— Isaac Asimov

Evil grows and bears fruit, which is understandable, because it has logic and probability on its side and also, of course, strength.…

— Czeslaw Milosz

Does the logic connect? What are the range of probably outcomes? You want to figure out what those probabilities are and ideally…

— Elon Musk

Is the world ruled by strict laws or not? This question I regard as metaphysical. The laws we find are always hypotheses;…

— Karl Popper

Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper. Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle...…

— Thomas Jefferson

But it is necessary to insist more strongly than usual that what I am putting before you is a model-the Bohr model…

— Arthur Eddington

I believe that we do not know anything for certain, but everything probably.

— Christiaan Huygens

The most important questions of life are indeed, for the most part, really only problems of probability.

— Pierre-Simon Laplace

The probability that the bowman's arrow hits the deer does not lie in the arrow or the deer. It lies in the…

— Bart Kosko

Everything is allowable in literature, but what is not allowable in criticism is objection on the grounds of probability.

— Howard Jacobson

and realized that death was not only a permanent probability, as he had always believed, but an immediate reality.

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

First get a clear notion of what you desire to accomplish and then in all probability you will succeed in doing it.

— Henry Maudslay

It is dangerous to attach probability zero to anything other than a logical impossibility.

— Dennis Lindley

Probability is not about the odds, but about the belief in the existence of an alternative outcome, cause, or motive.

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Death is always a constant possibility and probability and of course an inevitability, as well.

— Cornel West

Probability and expectation are not the same. Its probability and probability times the pay off.

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

“Le vrai peut quelquefois n'être pas vraisemblable. (At times truth may not seem probable)”

— Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

Lies, fables and romances must needs be probable, but not the truth and foundation of our faith.

— Johann Georg Hamann

Many modern philosophers claim that probability is relation between an hypothesis and the evidence for it.

— Ian Hacking

“Everything in our life is a probability apart from two facts – Birth and Death”

— Anupama Garg

The laws of probability, so true in general, so fallacious in particular.

— Edward Gibbon

The price of freedom is the probability of crime. The price of protection is the probability of slavery.

— Dan Geer