So vast, so limitless in capacity is man's imagination to disperse and burn away the rubble-dross of fact and probability, leaving only… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“Statistics, likelihoods, and probabilities mean everything to men, nothing to God.” — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
When a coincidence seems amazing, that's because the human mind isn’t wired to naturally comprehend probability & statistics. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
The solution of the Monty Hall problem hinges on the concept of information, and more specifically, on the relationship between added information… — Hans Christian von Baeyer Copy Share Image
We are not made safe from terrorists by helicopters, or missiles or boots on the ground. Nor is it drones, torture or… — Bret Weinstein Copy Share Image
We are not good at recognizing distant threats even if their probability is 100%. Society ignoring [peak oil] is like the people… — James R. Schlesinger Copy Share Image
There is a much higher probability that a first-class scholar should commit an error than that an author who usually writes nonsense… — Otto E. Neugebauer Copy Share Image
When I was 16 I started keeping a diary in which I recorded my disagreements with the famous philosophers. I didn't insist… — Albert Ellis Copy Share Image
“Trust a witness in all matters in which neither his self-interest, his passions, his prejudices, nor the love of the marvellous is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
One of the most basic and pervasive social processes is the sorting and labeling of things, activities, and people... Sorting and labeling… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
The entrepreneurial mind-set is that risk is the heightened probability that there is a big range of possible outcomes. — Heidi Roizen Copy Share Image
The fact that we don't keep repeating tests in the same arena is not because the probability of the hypothesis showing its… — Robert Nozick Copy Share Image
The probability of the people in power being individuals who would dislike the possession and exercise of power is on a level… — Frank Knight Copy Share Image
An aphorism is an extreme synthesis of thesis and antithesis, theory and practice, it's a mixture of intuition and observation, hypothesis and… — William C. Brown Copy Share Image
Expansions do not die of old age. The probability of recession in the following year is the same for a three-year-old expansion… — Edgar Fiedler Copy Share Image
Without any doubt, the regularity which astronomy shows us in the movements of the comets takes place in all phenomena. The trajectory… — Pierre-Simon Laplace Copy Share Image
Neither nature, experience, nor probability informs these lists of 'entitlements', which are subject to no constraints except those of the mind and… — Jeane Kirkpatrick Copy Share Image
If you sat with a pencil and jotted down all the decisions you've taken in the past week, or, if you could,… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
One would appear ridiculous who would say, that it is only probable the sun will rise to-morrow, or that all men must… — David Hume Copy Share Image
The theory of probabilities is at bottom nothing but common sense reduced to calculus; it enables us to appreciate with exactness that… — Pierre-Simon Laplace Copy Share Image
The grand assertion is that you must see the world through probability and that probability is the only guide you need. — Dennis Lindley Copy Share Image
If you trace back all those links in the chain that had to be in place for me to be here, the… — Jim Al-Khalili Copy Share Image
It is prima facie highly implausible that life as we know it is the result of a sequence of physical accidents together… — Thomas Nagel Copy Share Image
