Hope is the belief in the probability of the possible rather than the necessity of the probable. — Marshall Ganz Copy Share Image
Use this day to do something daring, extraordinary and unlike yourself. Take a chance and shape a different pattern in your personal… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
Such an event is probable in Agathon's sense of the word: 'it is probable,' he says, 'that many things should happen contrary… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The earth in its rapid motion round the sun possesses a degree of living force so vast that, if turned into the… — James Prescott Joule Copy Share Image
Human intellectual progress, such as it has been, results from our long struggle to see things 'as they are,' or in the… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
This branch of mathematics [Probability] is the only one, I believe, in which good writers frequently get results which are entirely erroneous. — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
Failure saves lives. In the airline industry, every time a plane crashes the probability of the next crash is lowered by that.… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
The idea is to buy when the probability is greatest that the market is going to advance. — Martin Zweig Copy Share Image
The prospect, that a good general government will in all human probability be soon established in America, affords me more substantial satisfaction;… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Almost all thinking people agree that you should not have probability 1 (or 0) for any event, other than one demonstrable by… — Dennis Lindley Copy Share Image
The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
“You were born a winner, a warrior, one who defied the odds by surviving the most gruesome battle of them all -… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
Embrace the probability of your imminent death....and know there is nothing i can do to save you. — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
I have been too long acquainted with human nature to have great regard for human testimony; and a very great degree of… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
The certainty that life cannot be long, and the probability that it will be much shorter than nature allows, ought to awaken… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Fourth Law of Thermodynamics: If the probability of success is not almost one, then it is damn near zero. — David R. Ellis Copy Share Image
I find that the old Roman baths of this quarter, were found covered by an old burying ground, belonging to the Abbey;… — Tobias Smollett Copy Share Image
Contrary to the popular notion that only creationism relies on the supernatural, evolutionism must as well, since the probabilities of random formation… — Chandra Wickramasinghe Copy Share Image
The Law of Probabilities: the more things you try, the more likely one of them will work. — Jack Canfield Copy Share Image
Customers are wrestling with mission-critical decisions, evaluating solutions that all sound the same, and struggling to achieve the value they expect, when… — Jeff Thull Copy Share Image
The greatest threat now is a 9/11 occurring with a group of terrorists armed not with airline tickets and box cutters, but… — Dick Cheney Copy Share Image
We think that life develops spontaneously on Earth, so it must be possible for life to develop on suitable planets elsewhere in… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
If you get rid of emotion for a minute and think about the threat of terrorism statistically, it's not even there. The… — Pavel Durov Copy Share Image