Probability is not about the odds, but about the belief in the existence of an alternative outcome, cause, or motive. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
Does the logic connect? What are the range of probably outcomes? You want to figure out what those probabilities are and ideally… — Elon Musk Copy Share Image
The probability that the bowman's arrow hits the deer does not lie in the arrow or the deer. It lies in the… — Bart Kosko Copy Share Image
Probability but no truth, facility but no freedom--it is owing to these two fruits that the tree of knowledge cannot be confused… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
We often regret we did not do otherwise, when that very otherwise would, in all probability, have done for us. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Most, probably, of our decisions to do something positive, the full consequences of which will be drawn out over many days to… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
Many modern philosophers claim that probability is relation between an hypothesis and the evidence for it. — Ian Hacking Copy Share Image
One of the elementary rules of nature is that, in the absence of a law prohibiting an event or phenomenon, it is… — Kenneth W. Ford Copy Share Image
The representatives of business interests are the men to start this enterprise among our people and bring them to a full realization… — John J. Pershing Copy Share Image
You know that, according to quantum theory, if two particles collide with enough energy you can, in principle, with an infinitesimal probability,… — Isidor Isaac Rabi Copy Share Image
Do not personally give any more conscious consideration, either of you, to events that you do not want to happen. Any such… — Seth Copy Share Image
The laws of history are as absolute as the laws of physics, and if the probabilities of error are greater, it is… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
They were being driven to a prison, through no fault of their own, in all probability for life. In comparison, how much… — Nellie Bly Copy Share Image
Activity equals results. If you want to increase your success, increase your activity. Increase contact with customers. The more people you contact,… — Brian Tracy Copy Share Image
A man must study general conditions, to seize them so as to be able to anticipate probabilities. — Jesse Lauriston Livermore Copy Share Image
But the indeterminate future is somehow one in which probability and statistics are the dominant modality for making sense of the world.… — Peter Thiel Copy Share Image
“A likely impossibility is always preferable to an unconvincing possibility. The story should never be made up of improbable incidents; there should… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Mrs. Boffin, insisting that Bella should make tomorrow's expedition in the chariot, she went home in great grandeur. Mrs. Wilfer and Miss… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
The truth is, the greatest tool to lift children and families from poverty is one that decreases the probability of child poverty… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
The more connected that individual is to an issue they care about, the higher probability there is they will stay involved over… — Chris Hughes Copy Share Image
Even if we could be certain that one of the world's religions were perfectly true, given the sheer number of conflicting faiths… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
It is natural to men to judge of things less known, by some similitude they observe, or think they observe, between them… — Thomas Reid Copy Share Image
Once we see, however, that the probability of life originating at random is so utterly minuscule as to make it absurd, it… — Fred Hoyle Copy Share Image
It is only through the psyche that we can establish that God acts upon us, but we are unable to distinguish whether… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
The theory of probabilities is basically only common sense reduced to a calculus. It makes one estimate accurately what right-minded people feel… — Pierre-Simon Laplace Copy Share Image
