Scientists are stuck in this belief that we tell people probabilities, not absolute answers. — Stephen Schneider Copy Share Image
Crushed to earth and rising again is an author's gymnastic. Once he fails to struggle to his feet and grab his pen,… — Fannie Hurst Copy Share Image
When a person feels disposed to over estimate his own importance, let him remember that mankind got along very well before his… — Charles Simmons Copy Share Image
If a lack of empirical foundations is a defect of the theory of logical probability, it is also a defect of deductive… — David Stove Copy Share Image
We can never achieve absolute truth but we can live hopefully by a system of calculated probabilities. — Agnes Meyer Driscoll Copy Share Image
ROMANCE, n. Fiction that owes no allegiance to the God of Things as They Are. In the novel the writer's thought is… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Wherever you observe persecution, there is more than a probability that truth lies on il the persecuted side. — Hugh Latimer Copy Share Image
In all probability an outburst of desperation in the midst of general submissiveness will always help. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
What geographic profiling does is it takes a look at the locations of a connected series of incidents - say murders in… — Kim Rossmo Copy Share Image
An executive might have a very strong intuition that a given product has promise, without considering the probability that a rival is… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
Among all the occurrences possible in the universe the a priori probability of any particular one of them verges upon zero. Yet… — Jacques Monod Copy Share Image
Earlier attempts to show that simpler theories always have higher prior probabilities have failed, but there is a restricted circumstance in which… — Elliott Sober Copy Share Image
One must be careful with words. Words turn probabilities into facts and by sheer force of definition translate tendencies into habits. — Fay Weldon Copy Share Image
Some periods of our growth are so confusing that we don't even recognize that growth is happening...Those long periods when something inside… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
From principles is derived probability, but truth or certainty is obtained only from facts. — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
A realistic definition of risk recognizes the potential loss of capital through inflation and taxes, and would include at least the following… — David Dreman Copy Share Image
Investing is not a natural science but rather a social science. So, it's never purely empirical; what you are trying to do… — William Browne Copy Share Image
There is a great probability that our loss of capacity for enjoying the positive joys of life is largely due to the… — Lin Yutang Copy Share Image
