Women are sometimes drawn in to believe against probability by the unwillingness they have to doubt their own merit. — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
“Nothing's impossible. Everything's got screwed up probability ratios.” — S.E. Anderson Copy Share Image
It is the concept of likelihood that a real understanding of probability resides, and we must learn how to measure it. — Anthony Stafford Beer Copy Share Image
I don't believe in providence and fate, as a technologist I am used to reckoning with the formulae of probability. — Max Frisch Copy Share Image
It's not unlikely that God would lie that would be a matter of probability. It is impossible for God to lie. — James MacDonald Copy Share Image
“the only thing that can be predicted is the probability of different events.” — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
Embrace the probability of your imminent death…and know there is nothing i can do to save you. — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
I know too well that these arguments from probabilities are imposters, and unless great caution is observed in the use of them,… — Plato Copy Share Image
Should the States reject this excellent Constitution, the probability is, an opportunity will never again offer to cancel another in peacethe next… — George Washington Copy Share Image
There are no absolute certainties in this universe. A man must try to whip order into a yelping pack of probabilities, and… — Jack Vance Copy Share Image
Almost all thinking people agree that you should not have probability 1 (or 0) for any event, other than one demonstrable by… — Dennis Lindley Copy Share Image
He was at a starting point which makes many a man's career a fine subject for betting, if there were any gentlemen… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
One would appear ridiculous who would say, that it is only probable the sun will rise to-morrow, or that all men must… — David Hume Copy Share Image
There exists a world. In terms of probability this borders on the impossible. It would have been far more likely if, by… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
The probability that we face global warming caused by fossil fuels is now so overwhelming that it is legitimate to doubt the… — Adair Turner, Baron Turner of Ecchinswell Copy Share Image
Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper. Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle...… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
But it is necessary to insist more strongly than usual that what I am putting before you is a model-the Bohr model… — Arthur Eddington Copy Share Image
At 55 I said the probability is I won't have another relationship. I just didn't want to start another family. Between my… — Jack Nicholson Copy Share Image
Customers are wrestling with mission-critical decisions, evaluating solutions that all sound the same, and struggling to achieve the value they expect, when… — Jeff Thull 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
To those of us who have been following the climate debate for decades, the next few years will be electrifying. There is… — Ross McKitrick Copy Share Image
Everybody knows you're going to miss some. It's just the reality and the probability of it. It's the ultimate paradox for a… — Nate Kaeding 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
“One of the recent arguments from design, that based on the so-called fine-tuning life of some fundamental physical constants, founders on the… — Colin Howson Copy Share Image
I was speaking on the radio in South Texas [in 2016], and I was speaking to Hispanics, and I said 'You know,… — Rafael Cruz 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
It is, I believe, justifiable to make the generalization that anything an organic chemist can synthesize can be made without him. All… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We come finally, however, to the relation of the ideal theory to real world, or "real" probability. If he is consistent a… — John Edensor Littlewood Copy Share Image
“The Coin of Life example: Say you have a coin with heads on one side and tails on the other side. One… — Virgil Kalyana Mittata Iordache Copy Share Image
Have I ever remarked on how completely ridiculous it is to ask high school students to decide what they want to do… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image