You can’t talk to thermodynamics and you can’t pray to…

A scientist worthy of a lab coat should be able to make original discoveries while wearing a clown suit, or give a lecture in…

— Eliezer Yudkowsky

It was our use of probability theory as logic that has enabled us to do so easily what was impossible for those who thought…

— Edwin Thompson Jaynes

The theory of probabilities is at bottom nothing but common sense reduced to calculus; it enables us to appreciate with exactness that which accurate…

— Pierre-Simon Laplace

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

— Martin Gardner

Probability theory is nothing but common sense reduced to calculation.

— Pierre-Simon Laplace

“Probability is orderly opinion and inference from data is nothing other than the revision of such opinion in the light of relevant new information.”

— Eliezer S. Yudkowsky

At a purely formal level, one could call probability theory the study of measure spaces with total measure one, but that would be like…

— Terence Tao

One of the most striking and fundamental things about probability theory is that it leads to an understanding of the otherwise strange fact that…

— Warren Weaver

I failed math twice, never fully grasping probability theory. I mean, first off, who cares if you pick a black ball or a white…

— Janet Evanovich

“I am no friend of probability theory, I have hated it from the first moment when our dear friend Max Born gave it birth.…

— Erwin Schrödinger

In all cases where work is produced by heat, a quantity of heat proportional to the work done is expended; and inversely, by the…

— Rudolf Clausius

The laws of thermodynamics may be regarded as particular cases of more general laws, applicable to all such states of matter as constitute Energy…

— William John Macquorn Rankine

The algebraic sum of all the transformations occurring in a cyclical process can only be positive, or, as an extreme case, equal to nothing.…

— Rudolf Clausius

If Thought is capable of beingclassed with Electricity, or Will with chemical affinity, asa mode of motion, it seems necessary to fall at once…

— Henry Brooks Adams

The laws of thermodynamics, as empirically determined, express the approximate and probable behavior of systems of a great number of particles, or, more precisely,…

— J. Willard Gibbs