A miscalculation is not negligence, nor prudence a crime. I am a scientist. I base my action or inaction upon probability and… — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
Saudi Arabian oil production is at or very near its peak sustainable volume (if it did not, in fact peak almost 25… — Matthew Simmons Copy Share Image
Seeking an acquisition from the start is more than just bad advice for an entrepreneur. For the entrepreneur it leads to short… — Vinod Khosla Copy Share Image
“The probabilitation of possibilities is the mother of many unrealistic ideas,uninformative decisions,inappropriate measures and unfair actions because most of the times we… — Mpho Leteng Copy Share Image
The endeavor of scientific research to see events in their more general connection in order to determine their laws, is a legitimate… — Max Horkheimer Copy Share Image
In all probability the Human Genome Project will, someday, find that I carry some recessive gene for optimism, because despite all my… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
If scientific reasoning were limited to the logical processes of arithmetic, we should not get very far in our understanding of the… — Vannevar Bush Copy Share Image
Fame, we may understand, is no sure test of merit, but only a probability of such; it is an accident, not a… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
As in the piling up of hypothetical alternatives, creative accidents follow the law of probabilities the more we fish, the more likely… — Alex Faickney Osborn Copy Share Image
Before you invest, you must ensure that you have realistically assessed your probability of being right and how you will react to… — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
“4. Religion. Your reason is now mature enough to examine this object. In the first place, divest yourself of all bias in… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Mental Management is the process of maximising the probability of having a consistent mental performance, under pressure, on demand — Lanny Bassham Copy Share Image
We cannot judge either of the feelings or of the characters of men with perfect accuracy from their actions or their appearance… — Maria Edgeworth Copy Share Image
One: demonstrations always crash. And two: the probability of them crashing goes up exponentially with the number of people watching. — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
“If the universe was scientific and just left to itself, then we’d have statistical probabilities to rely on. But once people are… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
Opinion is the companion of probability within the medieval epistemology. — Ian Hacking Copy Share Image
Regarding the air raid over Los Angeles it was learned by Army G2 that Rear Admiral Anderson...recovered an unidentified airplane off the… — George C. Marshall Copy Share Image
Every conjecture we can form with regard to the works of God has as little probability as the conjectures of a child… — Thomas Reid Copy Share Image
The approach and strategies are very similar in that you gather all the information you can and then keep adding to that… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
The fact that I have no remedy for all the sorrows of the world is no reason for my accepting yours. It… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The true Logic for this world is the Calculus of Probabilities, which takes account of the magnitude of the probability. — James Clerk Maxwell Copy Share Image
Generally, a betting system for which each wager depends only on present resources and present probability of success is known as a… — Richard Arnold Epstein Copy Share Image
I am now about to set seriously to work upon preparing for the press an account of my theory of Logic and… — George Boole Copy Share Image
