“And some scientists and other intellectuals are convinced—too eagerly in my view—that the question of God's existence belongs in the forever inaccessible… — Richard Dawkins 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
Does the logic connect? What are the range of probably outcomes? You want to figure out what those probabilities are and ideally… — Elon Musk Copy Share Image
What geographic profiling does is it takes a look at the locations of a connected series of incidents - say murders in… — Kim Rossmo 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
One of the most basic and pervasive social processes is the sorting and labeling of things, activities, and people... Sorting and labeling… — Thomas Sowell 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
I've debated many economists who claim to specialize in risk and probability: when one takes them slightly outside their narrow focus, but… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb 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
“We either base our 'confidence' on reason (evident probabilities, past experience, competence, etc) or we base our beliefs on faith, which is… — AronRa Copy Share Image
One influential philosophical position about the use of probability in science holds that probabilities are objective only if they are based on… — Elliott Sober Copy Share Image
Even the humblest men have a strange reason behind greed. Every man thinks money solves problems - and every man thinks not… — Siddharth Katragadda Copy Share Image
“Occasionally I glanced at the big blue cradle of civilization hanging in the sky, remembered for the fiftieth or sixtieth or one… — Adam-Troy Castro Copy Share Image
If you get rid of emotion for a minute and think about the threat of terrorism statistically, it's not even there. The… — Pavel Durov 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
The probability for the chance of formation of the smallest, simplest form of living organism known is 1 to 10340,000,000… The size… — Harold Morowitz Copy Share Image
In quantum mechanics there is A causing B. The equations do not stand outside that usual paradigm of physics. The real issue… — Brian Greene Copy Share Image
A scientist worthy of a lab coat should be able to make original discoveries while wearing a clown suit, or give a… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
Obviously, things can get derailed, particularly if, which looks more and more likely, you get a blow-up between Israel and Iran. I… — Steve Forbes Copy Share Image
The reality, as I have come to understand it, is that the future is not fixed, and that therefore it cannot be… — Steven Forrest Copy Share Image
“I am no friend of probability theory, I have hated it from the first moment when our dear friend Max Born gave… — Erwin Schrödinger Copy Share Image
Some of my Arcanum bunkmates taught me a card game called dogs-breath. I returned the favor by giving an impromptu lesson in… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
We have to deal with this new type of threat in a way we haven’t yet defined. . . . With a… — Dick Cheney Copy Share Image
Nearly everybody nowadays accepts the 'causal completeness of physics' - every physical event (or at least its probability) has a full physical… — David Papineau Copy Share Image
To be a super-trader, you'll need an edge to overcome the laws of probability and the uncertainty of the marketplace. That edge… — Ari Kiev Copy Share Image
Some people are under the impression that all that is required to make a good fisherman is the ability to tell lies… — Jerome K. Jerome Copy Share Image
It would be so weird if we knew just as much as we needed to know to answer all the questions of… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
If you go back and look at the history of Supreme Court fights from the very beginning there is a corresponding interest,… — Joe Biden Copy Share Image
“You were born a winner, a warrior, one who defied the odds by surviving the most gruesome battle of them all -… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
Most, probably, of our decisions to do something positive, the full consequences of which will be drawn out over many days to… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
It is only through the psyche that we can establish that God acts upon us, but we are unable to distinguish whether… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The earth in its rapid motion round the sun possesses a degree of living force so vast that, if turned into the… — James Prescott Joule Copy Share Image
If you sat with a pencil and jotted down all the decisions you've taken in the past week, or, if you could,… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
The stone that Dr. Johnson once kicked to demonstrate the reality of matter has become dissipated in a diffuse distribution of mathematical… — Morris Kline Copy Share Image
No idea for a new growth business ever comes fully shaped. When it emerges, it's half-baked, and it then goes through a… — Clayton Christensen Copy Share Image