Wherever you see persecution, there is more than a probability that truth lies on the persecuted side. — Hugh Latimer Copy Share Image
Hope is the belief in the probability of the possible rather than the necessity of the probable. — Marshall Ganz Copy Share Image
The study of history, while it does not endow with prophecy, may indicate lines of probability. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Probability theory is nothing but common sense reduced to calculation. — Pierre-Simon Laplace Copy Share Image
The scientific imagination always restrains itself within the limits of probability. — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
From principles is derived probability, but truth or certainty is obtained only from facts. — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
“Statistics, likelihoods, and probabilities mean everything to men, nothing to God.” — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
We can never achieve absolute truth but we can live hopefully by a system of calculated probabilities. — Agnes Meyer Driscoll Copy Share Image
The machine has no feelings, it feels no fear and no hope ... it operates according to the pure logic of probability.… — Max Frisch Copy Share Image
We cannot live on probabilities. The faith in which we can live bravely and die in peace must be a certainty, so… — James Anthony Froude Copy Share Image
One of the elementary rules of nature is that, in the absence of a law prohibiting an event or phenomenon, it is… — Kenneth W. Ford Copy Share Image
“Conventional wisdom nor scientific, mathematical prove of randomness in life could do nothing to deter human's curiosity for the unknown, however small… — Vann Chow Copy Share Image
Unlike cheap stocks, inexpensive asset classes have a lower chance of big drawdowns (broad asset classes don't go to zero) and a… — Barry Ritholtz Copy Share Image
The solution of the Monty Hall problem hinges on the concept of information, and more specifically, on the relationship between added information… — Hans Christian von Baeyer Copy Share Image
If you leave school at 16 then, in all probability, there is a machine that can do what you can do better… — Nicholas Bloom Copy Share Image
Legends of prediction are common throughout the whole Household of Man. Gods speak, spirits speak, computers speak. Oracular ambiguity or statistical probability… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Without any doubt, the regularity which astronomy shows us in the movements of the comets takes place in all phenomena. The trajectory… — Pierre-Simon Laplace Copy Share Image
If we only identify with the mortal world, then we identify with a level of scarcity and lack and brokenness, and that… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
Rather, risk is a perception in each investor's mind that results from analysis of the probability and amount of potential loss from… — Seth Klarman Copy Share Image
All empty souls tend to extreme opinion. It is only in those who have built up a rich world of memories and… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
Is it conceivable that a newly emancipated people can soar to the heights of liberty, and, unlike Icarus, neither have its wings… — Simon Bolivar Copy Share Image
The percent likelihood of a society becoming physically violent if it is physically affectionate towards its infants and tolerant of premarital sexual… — James W. Prescott Copy Share Image
“Try calculating the probability of getting a call from an old friend after just thinking about them. Or, your favorite song coming… — Charles F. Glassman Copy Share Image
However, the small probability of a similar encounter [of the earth with a comet], can become very great in adding up over… — Pierre-Simon Laplace Copy Share Image
Science fiction - and the correct shortcut is 'sf' - uses actual scientific facts or theories for the source ideas or framework… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“A distinguished writer [Siméon Denis Poisson] has thus stated the fundamental definitions of the science: 'The probability of an event is the… — George Boole Copy Share Image
The approach and strategies are very similar in that you gather all the information you can and then keep adding to that… — Warren Buffett 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
“Natural selection is not only a parsimonious, plausible and elegant solution; it is the only workable alternative to chance that has ever… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“Dawkins’s advice shows that he didn’t understand probability. . . . Dawkins said that a creature the lives millions of years would… — Lee Spetner Copy Share Image
“Today is an ephemeral ghost... A strange amazing day that comes only once every four years. For the rest of the time… — Vera Nazarian 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
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