There is a radical and unprecedented shift [in war] that is part of the general transformation of civilization. First, understand that the… — George Friedman Copy Share Image
Imagination is a good horse to carry you over the ground - not a flying carpet to set you free from probability. — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
If often happens too, both in courts and in cabinets, that there are two things going on together,--a main plot and an… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Physics tells us observations can't be predicted absolutely. Rather, there's a range of possible observations each with a different probability. — Robert Lanza Copy Share Image
“Oh, don’t worry, I am perfectly aware of the fantasy involved here, but what we want is almost never exempt from the… — Ben Marcus Copy Share Image
The probability of having some problem with the children is greater when the mother is over the age of 35 but I've… — Jamie Whyte Copy Share Image
If you look like your passport photo, in all probability you need the journey. — Earl Wilson Copy Share Image
It's not unlikely that God would lie that would be a matter of probability. It is impossible for God to lie. — James MacDonald Copy Share Image
Every company needs to have a skunkworks, to try things that have a high probability of failing. You try to minimize failure,… — Nolan Bushnell Copy Share Image
Its not even probable, let alone scientifically proven, that HIV causes AIDS. If there is evidence that HIV causes AIDS, there should… — Kary Mullis Copy Share Image
If to enjoy even an enjoyable present we must have the assurance of a happy future, we are “crying for the moon.”… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
Expert estimates of probability are often off by factors of hundreds or thousands. [...] I used to be annoyed when the margin… — Nate Silver Copy Share Image
A reasonable scale of probability-what is likely-forbids believing a whole range of imaginative possibilities, even though we do not know anything for… — Jennifer Michael Hecht Copy Share Image
“Natural selection is not only a parsimonious, plausible and elegant solution; it is the only workable alternative to chance that has ever… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Given our inevitably incomplete knowledge about key structural aspects of our ever-changing economy and the sometimes asymmetric costs or benefits of particular… — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
The probability of apocalypse soon cannot be realistically estimated, but it is surely too high for any sane person to contemplate with… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The most sublime efforts of philosophy can extend no farther than feebly to point out the desire, the hope, or, at most,… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
No idea for a new growth business ever comes fully shaped. When it emerges, it's half-baked, and it then goes through a… — Clayton Christensen Copy Share Image
The vast majority of large scale change efforts fail. Which means that the probability that you have actually experienced a failure, and… — John P. Kotter Copy Share Image
...99 percent confident that the world really was getting warmer and that there was a high degree of probability that it was… — James Hansen Copy Share Image
Anything is possible, but not always probable. Innovators increase the probability of the impossible. — Braden Kelley Copy Share Image
Unlike cheap stocks, inexpensive asset classes have a lower chance of big drawdowns (broad asset classes don't go to zero) and a… — Barry Ritholtz Copy Share Image
The true power is in the imagination which dares to speculate upon that which is not yet. The imagination, backed by great… — Seth Copy Share Image