Our beliefs are not just estimates of probabilities. They…

“I don't simply create probabilities, I guide them.”

— Lionel Suggs

Fear was stronger than the calculation of probabilities.

— George Eliot

If an event can be produced by a number n of different causes, the probabilities of the existence of these causes, given the event…

— Pierre-Simon Laplace

The more people you contact, the higher your sales will be because of the law of probabilities.

— Brian Tracy

History cannot be reduced to a set of statistics and probabilities.

— Alan Greenspan

He who has heard the same thing told by 12,000 eye-witnesses has only 12,000 probabilities, which are equal to one strong probability, which is…

— Voltaire

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

— Charles Darwin

The true Logic for this world is the Calculus of Probabilities, which takes account of the magnitude of the probability.

— James Clerk Maxwell

Probabilities direct the conduct of the wise man.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“If the universe was scientific and just left to itself, then we’d have statistical probabilities to rely on. But once people are involved it…

— Sara Sheridan

Arguments derived from probabilities are idle

— Plato

We can never achieve absolute truth but we can live hopefully by a system of calculated probabilities.

— Agnes Meyer Driscoll

Scientists are stuck in this belief that we tell people probabilities, not absolute answers.

— Stephen Schneider

It has been pointed out already that no knowledge of probabilities, less in degree than certainty, helps us to know what conclusions are true,…

— John Maynard Keynes

We balance probabilities and choose the most likely. It is the scientific use of the imagination.

— Arthur Conan Doyle