Very few people would choose to have even the most fabled assortment of goods if it meant getting cancer within the year.… — Paul L Wachtel Copy Share Image
The belief in the probability of death with dignity is our, and society’s, attempt to deal with the reality of what is… — Sherwin B. Nuland Copy Share Image
Card games are one of the best ways to teach basic maths skills. From adding up and multiplying to understanding probability, there… — Julia Hartley-Brewer Copy Share Image
It was wonderful love that Christ should rather die for us than for the angels that fell. They were creatures of a… — Thomas Watson Copy Share Image
“The wave quality of light is the same as that of the electron. The wave determines the probable location of the photon… — Marcus du Sautoy Copy Share Image
“A distinguished writer [Siméon Denis Poisson] has thus stated the fundamental definitions of the science: 'The probability of an event is the… — George Boole Copy Share Image
When asked what he meant by a miracle: Oh, anything with a probability of less than 20%. — Enrico Fermi Copy Share Image
A point of great importance would be first to know: what is the capacity of the earth? And what charge does it… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
Have I ever remarked on how completely ridiculous it is to ask high school students to decide what they want to do… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
The machine has no feelings, it feels no fear and no hope ... it operates according to the pure logic of probability.… — Max Frisch Copy Share Image
We have to deal with this new type of threat in a way we haven’t yet defined. . . . With a… — Dick Cheney Copy Share Image
Probability is not a mere computation of odds on the dice or more complicated variants; it is the acceptance of the lack… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
While feeling far less injured by toil than my friends took for granted I must be, I yet was always aware of… — Harriet Martineau Copy Share Image
On their way toward modern science human beings have discarded meaning. The concept is replaced by the formula, the cause by rules… — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
The probability of separate worlds meeting is very small. The lure of it is immense. We send starships. We fall in love. — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“Even if you turn back the clock of the whole universe, you still can't stop and evildoer from exercising his free will.” — Bob Bello Copy Share Image
In a business setting, one's intelligence is crucial. Many problems faced by today's executives are unique and ill-defined. So, one's ability to… — Justin Menkes Copy Share Image
The high probability is if American forces withdraw from Afghanistan and if no alternative international arrangement is made that then the historic… — Henry Kissinger Copy Share Image
It was our use of probability theory as logic that has enabled us to do so easily what was impossible for those… — Edwin Thompson Jaynes Copy Share Image
The issue, as correctly emphasized by Carl Sagan, is the probability of the evolution of high intelligence and an electronic civilization on… — Ernst Mayr Copy Share Image
I am fully assured, that no general method for the solution of questions in the theory of probabilities can be established which… — George Boole Copy Share Image
It may be laid down as a general rule, that their confidence in and obedience to a government, will be commonly proportioned… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Death is always a constant possibility and probability and of course an inevitability, as well. — Cornel West Copy Share Image
