We may not be able to get certainty, but we can get probability, and half a loaf is better than no bread. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I'm trying to construct a world that maximises the probability that SpaceX continues its mission without me. — Elon Musk Copy Share Image
To be a super-trader, you'll need an edge to overcome the laws of probability and the uncertainty of the marketplace. That edge… — Ari Kiev Copy Share Image
The risk of a business being hit by a low probability, high impact event is far higher than most boards realize because… — Patrick Dixon Copy Share Image
Synchronicity: A meaningful coincidence of two or more events where something other than the probability of chance is involved. — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
motivation is highest when the probability of success is 50 percent: We don't get involved if the task is too easy or… — Judith M Bardwick Copy Share Image
Misunderstanding of probability may be the greatest of all impediments to scientific literacy. — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
We cannot live on probabilities. The faith in which we can live bravely and die in peace must be a certainty, so… — James Anthony Froude Copy Share Image
Although we deal with probabilities and expectations, the actual results can deviate substantially from such expectations, particularly on a short-term basis. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
The knowledge of Natural-History, being Observation of Matters of Fact, is more certain than most others, and in my slender Opinion, less… — Hans Sloane Copy Share Image
No man will be found in whose mind airy notions do not sometimes tyrannize, and force him to hope or fear beyond… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Consider the case of a person who holds a view with probability 1. Then coherence says that it is no use having… — Dennis Lindley Copy Share Image
In the beginning there were only probabilities. The universe could only come into existence if someone observed it. It does not matter… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When you turn from one room to the next, when your animal senses no longer perceive the sounds of the dishwasher, the… — Robert Lanza Copy Share Image
The public totally discounts low-probability high-consequence events. The individual says, it's not going to be this plane, this bus, this time. — Amanda Ripley Copy Share Image
If you equate the probability of the birth of a bacteria cell to chance assembly of its atoms, eternity will not suffice… — Christian de Duve Copy Share Image
Whatever way uncertainty is approached, probability is the only sound way to think about it. — Dennis Lindley Copy Share Image
All empty souls tend to extreme opinion. It is only in those who have built up a rich world of memories and… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
In quantum mechanics there is A causing B. The equations do not stand outside that usual paradigm of physics. The real issue… — Brian Greene Copy Share Image
If you find that your organization can't make the hard decisions that Scrum demands, then high-risk, uncertain projects have very little probability… — Jim Highsmith Copy Share Image
There is no reason to regard God as immune from consideration along the spectrum of probabilities. And there is certainly no reason… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The first step is to establish that something is possible; then probability will occur. — Elon Musk Copy Share Image
I was speaking on the radio in South Texas [in 2016], and I was speaking to Hispanics, and I said 'You know,… — Rafael Cruz Copy Share Image
My favourite fellow of the Royal Society is the Reverend Thomas Bayes, an obscure 18th-century Kent clergyman and a brilliant mathematician who… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
The statistical probability that organic structures and the most precisely harmonized reactions that typify living organisms would be generated by accident, is… — Ilya Prigogine Copy Share Image
