Probability Quotes · Page 8

Science fiction - and the correct shortcut is 'sf' - uses actual scientific facts or theories for the source ideas or framework…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

The most important questions of life are indeed, for the most part, really only problems of probability.

— Pierre-Simon Laplace

Is it conceivable that a newly emancipated people can soar to the heights of liberty, and, unlike Icarus, neither have its wings…

— Simon Bolivar

In corporation [corporate] religions as in others, the heretic must be cast out not because of the probability that he is wrong…

— Antony Jay

The United States can pay any debt it has because we can always print money to do that. So there is zero…

— Alan Greenspan

Ignorance gives one a large range of probabilities.

— George Eliot

“If I had stayed working in Florida, there is a high probability I would have died in hurricane Ian.”

— Steven Magee

The scientific imagination always restrains itself within the limits of probability.

— Thomas Huxley

“There is wisdom in madness, and strong probability of truth in all accusations, for people are complete, and everybody is capable of…

— Joseph Heller

I teach something called The Law of Probabilities, which says the more things you try, the more likely one of them will…

— Jack Canfield

Digital television is no longer a probability, it is a certainty.

— Tessa Jowell

“​It's Hard, Not to Fail, but, there is Always a Chance of Success. Of course, there is No Chance of Success, if…

— Vineet Raj Kapoor

There is no error which hath not some appearance of probability resembling truth, which, when men who study to be singular find…

— Walter Raleigh

The atheist, agnostic, or secularist ... should insist on the need to engage in a meaningful debate on the entire issue of…

— Anonymous

The source of Pyrrhonism comes from failing to distinguish between a demonstration, a proof and a probability. A demonstration supposes that the…

— Andrew Michael Ramsay

I am convinced that it is impossible to expound the methods of induction in a sound manner, without resting them upon the…

— William Stanley Jevons

Even very low-probability events can, and indeed do, occur.

— Gavin Extence

There are no absolute certainties in this universe. A man must try to whip order into a yelping pack of probabilities, and…

— Jack Vance

The Three Theorems of Psychohistorical Quantitivity: The population under scrutiny is oblivious to the existence of the science of Psychohistory. The time…

— Isaac Asimov

The true logic of this world is the calculus of probabilities.

— James Clerk Maxwell

Wherever you see persecution, there is more than a probability that truth lies on the persecuted side.

— Hugh Latimer

“Predictability is not how things will go, but how they can go.”

— Raheel Farooq

Time Management Tips: One can make a radar-like sweep of the horizon to identify time and task challenges while these are still…

— Neal A. Maxwell

It is dangerous to attach probability zero to anything other than a logical impossibility.

— Dennis Lindley

The study of history, while it does not endow with prophecy, may indicate lines of probability.

— John Steinbeck