The probability of life ever evolving on Earth was slim to none. It's insane that we're all walking around and talking. — Kesha Copy Share Image
The photographer, like an acrobat, must defy the laws of probability or even of possibility; at the limit, he must defy those… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
If we have an atom that is in an excited state and so is going to emit a photon, we cannot say… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
With caution judge of probability. Things deemed unlikely, e'en impossible, experience oft hath proved to be true. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
In a high tech world the cure for the tragic shortcomings and perilous fallacies of human intuition is education, but education in… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
However, the small probability of a similar encounter [of the earth with a comet], can become very great in adding up over… — Pierre-Simon Laplace Copy Share Image
A good test case is a test case that has a high probability of detecting an undiscovered error, not a test case… — Glenford Myers Copy Share Image
In no other branch of mathematics is it so easy for experts to blunder as in probability theory. — Martin Gardner Copy Share Image
There exists a world. In terms of probability this borders on the impossible. It would have been far more likely if, by… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
And by letting go of trying to control the uncontrollable...you ironically increase...the probability of getting what you want. — Michael Neill Copy Share Image
Why couldn't she have this, just enjoy this, without creating obstacles, digging up problems, worrying about mistakes, about tomorrow's? Why let the… — Nora Roberts Copy Share Image
Just the more people you talk to, the higher the probability is you'll get something that's really one of a kind. — John Wilson Copy Share Image
If you do not have at least an eight-month emergency fund, and you think there's a probability you could loose your job… — Suze Orman Copy Share Image
Lies, fables and romances must needs be probable, but not the truth and foundation of our faith. — Johann Georg Hamann Copy Share Image
The probability I knock out Chael Sonnen is very big. Man, everybody knows his game. He is never going to take me… — Wanderlei Silva Copy Share Image
“Dawkins’s advice shows that he didn’t understand probability. . . . Dawkins said that a creature the lives millions of years would… — Lee Spetner Copy Share Image
In an environment where you've got to push innovations out the door fast and keep the cost of innovation low, the probability… — Clayton Christensen Copy Share Image
At 55 I said the probability is I won't have another relationship. I just didn't want to start another family. Between my… — Jack Nicholson Copy Share Image
Obviously, things can get derailed, particularly if, which looks more and more likely, you get a blow-up between Israel and Iran. I… — Steve Forbes Copy Share Image
“While most of us are comfortable acknowledging that luck plays a role in what we do, we have difficulty assessing its role… — Michael J. Mauboussin Copy Share Image
The stone that Dr. Johnson once kicked to demonstrate the reality of matter has become dissipated in a diffuse distribution of mathematical… — Morris Kline Copy Share Image
“Keynes concluded that citizens both rich and poor would have to be led gradually out of capitalism, a base and repugnant system… — David Roth Singerman Copy Share Image
The probability for the chance of formation of the smallest, simplest form of living organism known is 1 to 10340,000,000.... The size… — Harold Morowitz Copy Share Image