Everything is allowable in literature, but what is not allowable in criticism is objection on the grounds of probability. — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
Some people are under the impression that all that is required to make a good fisherman is the ability to tell lies… — Jerome K. Jerome Copy Share Image
We can say with certainty - or 90% probability - that the new industries that are about to be born will have… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
It has been pointed out already that no knowledge of probabilities, less in degree than certainty, helps us to know what conclusions… — John Maynard Keynes 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
I also, as I think most people do, have a healthy instinct that if we upset the balance of nature, we are… — Tony Blair Copy Share Image
I believe that we do not know anything for certain, but everything probably. — Christiaan Huygens 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
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
The probability that a genius can do stupid things is much higher than the probability that a stupid can do genius things. — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
Probability fractions arise from our knowledge and from our ignorance. — Ian Hacking Copy Share Image
The probability that we face global warming caused by fossil fuels is now so overwhelming that it is legitimate to doubt the… — Adair Turner, Baron Turner of Ecchinswell Copy Share Image
All knowledge resolves itself into probability. ... In every judgment, which we can form concerning probability, as well as concerning knowledge, we… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Nearly everybody nowadays accepts the 'causal completeness of physics' - every physical event (or at least its probability) has a full physical… — David Papineau Copy Share Image
In some ways more painful is the fact that their experience appears to be fading from the collective memory of humankind. Having… — Tadatoshi Akiba Copy Share Image
And human instinct is ancient and reliable, utterly mysterious and possibly capable of great genius. I believe that refined, fluent instincts are… — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
Any universe that could have preceded consciousness only existed in a probability state. — Robert Lanza Copy Share Image
Entropy theory, on the other hand, is not concerned with the probability of succession in a series of items but with the… — Rudolf Arnheim 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
It is a well-known fact that in countries in which the national debt is properly funded, and an object of established confidence,… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
But the stupidity which is common to all such "explanations" is, of course, simply that of proceeding as though the merits of… — David Stove Copy Share Image
All the politics in the world are nothing else but a kind of analysis of the quantity of probability in casual events,… — John Arbuthnot Copy Share Image
“She thought of the boy's features as an exquisite distillation out of random patterns-endless queues of happenstance meeting at this nexus.” — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
