Our beliefs are not just estimates of probabilities. They are also the instruments that guide our actions. — John Ortberg 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
For a film I shot on the most difficult mountain on God's wide earth in Patagonia for a sequence where there was… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
Do not expect to arrive at certainty in every subject which you pursue. There are a hundred things wherein we mortals. .… — Isaac Watts Copy Share Image
There is nothing in the nature of a miracle that should render it incredible:;: its credibility depends upon the nature of the… — Charles Babbage Copy Share Image
The road is a strange place. Shuffling along, I looked up and you were there walking across the grass toward my truck… — Robert James Waller Copy Share Image
Contemporary scholars have little explored the preconditions of genocide. Still less have they asked whether a society's weapons policy might be one… — Daniel D. Polsby Copy Share Image
Is the world ruled by strict laws or not? This question I regard as metaphysical. The laws we find are always hypotheses;… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
“if you are a carrier of a particular set of genes, your probability of committing a violent crime goes up by eight… — David Eagleman Copy Share Image
The more people you contact, the higher your sales will be because of the law of probabilities. — Brian Tracy Copy Share Image
It's not about the pace, it's about the direction we've set. The pace is of course a function of many factors, including… — Marek Belka Copy Share Image
The 50-50-90 rule: Anytime you have a 50-50 chance of getting something right, there's a 90% probability you'll get it wrong. — Andy Rooney Copy Share Image
If an event can be produced by a number n of different causes, the probabilities of the existence of these causes, given… — Pierre-Simon Laplace Copy Share Image
“The Coin of Life example: Say you have a coin with heads on one side and tails on the other side. One… — Virgil Kalyana Mittata Iordache Copy Share Image
The most important thing you can do individually and organizationally is to pay attention to your own creativity. Sports psychologists call this… — Michael Ray Copy Share Image
He who sees different ways to the same end, will, unless he watches carefully over his own conduct, lay out too much… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
In autism there is just genes in part more or less of a probability that you will have the disorder, and that… — Gerald Fischbach Copy Share Image
One of the most striking and fundamental things about probability theory is that it leads to an understanding of the otherwise strange… — Warren Weaver Copy Share Image
If you have the feeling of choice, if you feel free, you will be better off. And when I say better off… — Sheena Iyengar Copy Share Image
There is certainly the intention of efforts like the Common Core to raise education standards and make sure that every student masters… — Anya Kamenetz Copy Share Image
Nature prefers the more probable states to the less probable because in nature processes take place in the direction of greater probability.… — Max Planck Copy Share Image
They basically ask their engineers to volunteer some probability figures, then they take the average. This is not science. This is voodoo, — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
You never get bored ... when you have the probabilities of your next meal to speculate on, pro and con. — Samuel Hopkins Adams Copy Share Image
