Probability Quotes by Dennis Lindley

Uncertainty is a personal matter; it is not the uncertainty but your uncertainty.

— Dennis Lindley

In my opinion, it helps enormously to know why something is true, rather than being told it is true, for why should you believe…

— Dennis Lindley

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

— Dennis Lindley

Consider the case of a person who holds a view with probability 1. Then coherence says that it is no use having a debate…

— Dennis Lindley

Whatever way uncertainty is approached, probability is the only sound way to think about it.

— Dennis Lindley

Almost all thinking people agree that you should not have probability 1 (or 0) for any event, other than one demonstrable by logic, like 2 x 2 = 4.

— Dennis Lindley

I believe that almost all important, useful ideas are simple. Peter Whittle has recently put it nicely in an autobiographical essay. "If a piece…

— Dennis Lindley

In teaching there can be too much emphasis on certainty and a proper appreciation of uncertainty is to be encouraged.

— Dennis Lindley

Utility is the emotion pleading to be let into the house of pure reason and thereby enriching it.

— Dennis Lindley

Generally there is Stigler's law of Eponymy that says that a scientific notion is never attributed to the right person; in particular, the law…

— Dennis Lindley

It is not surprising that in talking about uncertainty we should lean heavily on facts, just as the court of law does when interrogating…

— Dennis Lindley

The grand assertion is that you must see the world through probability and that probability is the only guide you need.

— Dennis Lindley