Even if we could be certain that one of the world's religions were perfectly true, given the sheer number of conflicting faiths… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The artist reserves the right to remove a blot on the landscape, to change positions of things, to suit his composition, providing… — Walter J. Phillips Copy Share Image
The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
Leadership both projects to the future and reflects upon the past. It bursts with possibilities, flaunts peculiarities, and occasionally defies probabilities. — Marcia Whicker Copy Share Image
No man will be found in whose mind airy notions do not sometimes tyrannize, and force him to hope or fear beyond… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“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 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
In the beginning there were only probabilities. The universe could only come into existence if someone observed it. It does not matter… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I described to my patent lawyer our new algorithm-that I was hoping to patent- about detecting clustering, that involved three probabilities α… — Jennifer Tour Chayes 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
Probability is a kind of penance, which God made, suitable, I presume to that state of mediocrity and probationership he has been… — John Locke Copy Share Image
In a high tech world the cure for the tragic shortcomings and perilous fallacies of human intuition is education, but education in… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
But the stupidity which is common to all such "explanations" is, of course, simply that of proceeding as though the merits of… — David Stove Copy Share Image
Based on a detailed investigation of all the facts and supported by the testimony of the surviving Japanese leaders involved, it is… — Paul Nitze Copy Share Image
The knowledge of Natural-History, being Observation of Matters of Fact, is more certain than most others, and in my slender Opinion, less… — Hans Sloane Copy Share Image
Not smoking enough will cause lung cancer! If anybody is getting a cancerous activity in the lung, the probabilities are that it's… — L. Ron Hubbard Copy Share Image
The probability I knock out Chael Sonnen is very big. Man, everybody knows his game. He is never going to take me… — Wanderlei Silva Copy Share Image
Most people think the Iraq war has increased the probability of an attack. However, it's difficult to put this aspect into financial… — Joseph Stiglitz Copy Share Image
It is profitable wisdom to know when we have done enough: Much time and pains are spared in not flattering ourselves against… — William Penn Copy Share Image
A reasonable scale of probability-what is likely-forbids believing a whole range of imaginative possibilities, even though we do not know anything for… — Jennifer Michael Hecht Copy Share Image
Thus we can get the correct answer for the probability of partial reflection by imagining (falsely) that all reflection comes from only… — Richard P. Feynman 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
The art of drawing conclusions from experiments and observations consists in evaluating probabilities and in estimating whether they are sufficiently great or… — Antoine Lavoisier Copy Share Image
In short, absolute, so-called mathematical, factors never find a firm basis in military calculations. From the very start, there is an interplay… — Carl von Clausewitz Copy Share Image
It is natural to men to judge of things less known, by some similitude they observe, or think they observe, between them… — Thomas Reid Copy Share Image
A realistic definition of risk recognizes the potential loss of capital through inflation and taxes, and would include at least the following… — David Dreman Copy Share Image
And human instinct is ancient and reliable, utterly mysterious and possibly capable of great genius. I believe that refined, fluent instincts are… — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
The Old Testament contains over 300 references to the Messiah that were fulfilled in Jesus Christ. Computations using the science of probability… — Fritz Ridenour Copy Share Image
You want something, you dwell upon it consciously for a while, you consciously imagine it coming to the forefront of probabilities, closer… — Seth 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
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
An easterly is the most disagreeable wind in Lyme Bay — Lyme Bay being that largest bite from the underside of England's… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
Manners,[...] are severly underappreciated in my opinion". "Oh?" Where practiced well, they remove the probability that someone in my position will be… — Michelle Sagara Copy Share Image
“Believing that random probability is the answer to ‘Life, the Universe and Everything’ is like believing that a spherical die, thrown from… — Terence Thirteen Copy Share Image
We pride ourselves on being the only species that understands the concept of risk, yet we have a confounding habit of worrying… — Jeffrey Kluger 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
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
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
I find that the old Roman baths of this quarter, were found covered by an old burying ground, belonging to the Abbey;… — Tobias Smollett Copy Share Image
The prospect, that a good general government will in all human probability be soon established in America, affords me more substantial satisfaction;… — George Washington Copy Share Image