“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
I think the probability of a supernatural creator existing is very very low, — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The province of faith begins where probabilities cease and sight and sense fail. — George Muller Copy Share Image
Scientists are stuck in this belief that we tell people probabilities, not absolute answers. — Stephen Schneider Copy Share Image
If a guy tells me the probability of failure is 1 in 100,000, I know he's full of crap. — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
The 50-50-90 rule: Anytime you have a 50-50 chance of getting something right, there's a 90% probability you'll get it wrong. — Andy Rooney 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
“If the universe was scientific and just left to itself, then we’d have statistical probabilities to rely on. But once people are… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
The United States can pay any debt it has because we can always print money to do that. So there is zero… — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
On the relationship side, if you teach people to respond actively and constructively when someone they care about has a victory, it… — Martin Seligman Copy Share Image
“The probability of life originating from accident is comparable to the probability of the Unabridged Dictionary resulting from an explosion in a… — Edwin Conklin 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
If scientific reasoning were limited to the logical processes of arithmetic, we should not get very far in our understanding of the… — Vannevar Bush 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
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
What geographic profiling does is it takes a look at the locations of a connected series of incidents - say murders in… — Kim Rossmo Copy Share Image
Is the world ruled by strict laws or not? This question I regard as metaphysical. The laws we find are always hypotheses;… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
Evil grows and bears fruit, which is understandable, because it has logic and probability on its side and also, of course, strength.… — Czeslaw Milosz Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
One influential philosophical position about the use of probability in science holds that probabilities are objective only if they are based on… — Elliott Sober Copy Share Image
“We either base our 'confidence' on reason (evident probabilities, past experience, competence, etc) or we base our beliefs on faith, which is… — AronRa Copy Share Image
I've debated many economists who claim to specialize in risk and probability: when one takes them slightly outside their narrow focus, but… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
“4. Religion. Your reason is now mature enough to examine this object. In the first place, divest yourself of all bias in… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“One of the recent arguments from design, that based on the so-called fine-tuning life of some fundamental physical constants, founders on the… — Colin Howson Copy Share Image
“Another mistaken notion connected with the law of large numbers is the idea that an event is more or less likely to… — Leonard Mlodinow Copy Share Image
“Perhaps the most striking illustration of Bayes’s theorem comes from a riddle that a mathematics teacher that I knew would pose to… — Siddhartha Mukherjee Copy Share Image
“There is always opportunity cost in choosing one path over others. The betting elements of decisions—choice, probability, risk, etc.—are more obvious in… — Annie Duke Copy Share Image
“He could not believe that any of them might actually hit somebody. If one did, what a nowhere way to go: killed… — James Jones Copy Share Image
There is nothing in the nature of a miracle that should render it incredible:;: its credibility depends upon the nature of the… — Charles Babbage 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
