The probability of ten consecutive heads is 0.1 percent; thus, when you have millions of coin tossers, or investors, in the end… — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
The possibilities and probabilities are all we have to work with in medicine, though. What we are drawn to in this imperfect… — Atul Gawande Copy Share Image
What I'm trying to do is to maximise the probability of the future being better. — Elon Musk 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
Pi is not merely the ubiquitous factor in high school geometry problems; it is stitched across the whole tapestry of mathematics, not… — Robert Kanigel Copy Share Image
General relativity is in the old Newtonian framework where you predict what will happen, not the probability of what will happen. And… — Brian Greene Copy Share Image
Statement: A girl and a boy jump into a river. The boy swims over to the girl and says, "God, it's cold."… — Jenny Downham Copy Share Image
Probability is a kind of penance, which God made, suitable, I presume to that state of mediocrity and probationership he has been… — John Locke Copy Share Image
We make investment decisions based on our evaluation of the most profitable combination of probabilities. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Sometimes the probabilities are very close to certainties, but they're never really certainties — Murray Gell-Mann Copy Share Image
In a system of free trade and free markets poor countries - and poor people - are not poor because others are… — Margaret Thatcher 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
I think having worked in a department store setting, if my life had not taken a drastically different turn when I became… — Cory Monteith 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
Based on the law of probability Everything is possible because The sheer existence of possibility Confirms the existence Of impossibility. — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
The probability of finding a particular book increases in relation to the clarity of the store's focus, the diligence and shrewdness of… — Gabriel Zaid Copy Share Image
Blind nature will nearly always select the most probable, but man can let the most improbable become actual. — Hans Jonas Copy Share Image
No matter how slick the demo is in rehearsal, when you do it in front of a live audience, the probability of… — Mark Gibbs Copy Share Image
The historical museum has to be very conservative and careful in its choices. The modern museum, on the other hand, has to… — Alfred H. Barr, Jr Copy Share Image
First get a clear notion of what you desire to accomplish and then in all probability you will succeed in doing it. — Henry Maudslay Copy Share Image
In far from equilibrium conditions, the concept of probability that underlies Boltzmann's order principle is no longer valid if the structures we… — Ilya Prigogine Copy Share Image
“Promise has 50% chance of happening. At least always make 2 promises at once.” — Toba Beta Copy Share Image
The theory of probability is the only mathematical tool available to help map the unknown and the uncontrollable. It is fortunate that… — Benoit Mandelbrot Copy Share Image
In flying, the probability of survival is inversely proportional to the angle of arrival. — Neil Armstrong Copy Share Image
