The fact that we don't keep repeating tests in the same arena is not because the probability of the hypothesis showing its… — Robert Nozick Copy Share Image
It doesn't matter what your probability of failure is. If there's a 90% chance of failure, there's a 10% chance of changing the world. — Vinod Khosla Copy Share Image
The uniformity of earth's life, more astonishing than its diversity, is accountable by the high probability that we derived, originally, from some… — Lewis Thomas 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
Is it 10 years, 20, 50 before we reach that tipping point where climate change becomes irreversible? Nobody can know. There's clearly… — Vinod Khosla Copy Share Image
“She thought of the boy's features as an exquisite distillation out of random patterns-endless queues of happenstance meeting at this nexus.” — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
Probability but no truth, facility but no freedom--it is owing to these two fruits that the tree of knowledge cannot be confused… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The statistical probability that organic structures and the most precisely harmonized reactions that typify living organisms would be generated by accident, is… — Ilya Prigogine Copy Share Image
Further, the same Arguments which explode the Notion of Luck, may, on the other side, be useful in some Cases to establish… — Abraham de Moivre Copy Share Image
“The law of probability combined with the law of large numbers states that to beat the odds, sometimes you have to repeat… — Jojo Moyes Copy Share Image
First, the only certainty is that there is no certainty. Second, every decision, as a consequence, is a matter of weighing probabilities.… — Robert Rubin 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
Mrs. Boffin, insisting that Bella should make tomorrow's expedition in the chariot, she went home in great grandeur. Mrs. Wilfer and Miss… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Much attention has been focused on the MMR shot itself, whereas in all probability it is a combination of the three factors… — Bernard Rimland Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“Trust a witness in all matters in which neither his self-interest, his passions, his prejudices, nor the love of the marvellous is… — Anonymous 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
They all talked at once, their voices insistent and contradictory and impatient, making of unreality a possibility, then a probability, then an… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
The word 'chance' then expresses only our ignorance of the causes of the phenomena that we observe to occur and to succeed… — Pierre-Simon Laplace Copy Share Image
Although we deal with probabilities and expectations, the actual results can deviate substantially from such expectations, particularly on a short-term basis. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Anyone who dares to speak about an aether is regarded as an ignorant and backward mind and he can only lose his… — Maurice Allais Copy Share Image
Just as entropy is a measure of disorganization, the information carried by a set of messages is a measure of organization. In… — Norbert Wiener 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
I have been too long acquainted with human nature to have great regard for human testimony; and a very great degree of… — Lord Chesterfield 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
Contrary to the popular notion that only creationism relies on the supernatural, evolutionism must as well, since the probabilities of random formation… — Chandra Wickramasinghe Copy Share Image
On moral grounds, I think that if you believe a certain outcome is a very possible outcome, you have an obligation to… — Joseph J. Romm 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
I have resigned from the professional undertaking of coin flipping. I am not here to tell you where gold's going to be.… — Hugh Hendry Copy Share Image
It is impossible for a Die, with such determined force and direction which makes it fall on such a determined side, only… — John Arbuthnot Copy Share Image
“What is your probability of winning twice the New Jersey lottery? One in 17 trillion. Yet it happened to Evelyn Adams, whom… — Fooled By Randomness Nassim Taleb Copy Share Image
It is a well-known fact that in countries in which the national debt is properly funded, and an object of established confidence,… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
What happens with fear is that probability doesn't matter very much. That is, once I have raised the possibility that something terrible… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
If often happens too, both in courts and in cabinets, that there are two things going on together,--a main plot and an… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
A problem of statistical inference or, more simply, a statistics problem is a problem in which data that have been generated in… — Morris H. DeGroot 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
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
Excess dietary salt is most notorious for increasing blood pressure. Americans have a 90 percent lifetime probability of developing high blood pressure… — Joel Fuhrman Copy Share Image
I found maths very easy, but I still enjoyed discovering things. You have to have the necessary information. For example, what's the… — Daniel Tammet 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
