Probability Quotes · Page 6

Hope provides comfort, and hope does not always require probability.

— John Perry

I would have to say the probability of us dying seems extremely high.

— Pythagoras

“Outside of textbooks and casinos, probability almost never presents itself as a mathematical problem or a brain teaser.”

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

“Raising the probability of being right is valuable no matter what your probability of being right already is.”

— Ray Dalio

People assign much higher probability to the truth of their opinions than is warranted.

— Daniel Kahneman

Variant: When it is not in our power to follow what is true, we ought to follow what is most probable.

— Rene Descartes

We didn't push the Russians to intervene, but we knowingly increased the probability that they would.

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

The Law of Probabilities: the more things you try, the more likely one of them will work.

— Jack Canfield

I think we have to be very careful. If we do go back in, we need to understand why and what the…

— Richard A. Clarke

There is no error which hath not some appearance of probability resembling truth, which, when men who study to be singular find…

— Walter Raleigh

Use this day to do something daring, extraordinary and unlike yourself. Take a chance and shape a different pattern in your personal…

— Vera Nazarian

The photographer, like an acrobat, must defy the laws of probability or even of possibility; at the limit, he must defy those…

— Roland Barthes

In the financial system we have today, with less risk concentrated in banks, the probability of systemic financial crises may be lower…

— Timothy Geithner

If we look at the way the universe behaves, quantum mechanics gives us fundamental, unavoidable indeterminacy, so that alternative histories of the…

— Murray Gell-Mann

This branch of mathematics [Probability] is the only one, I believe, in which good writers frequently get results which are entirely erroneous.

— Charles Sanders Peirce

So vast, so limitless in capacity is man's imagination to disperse and burn away the rubble-dross of fact and probability, leaving only…

— William Faulkner

The art of drawing conclusions from experiments and observations consists in evaluating probabilities and in estimating whether they are sufficiently great or…

— Antoine Lavoisier

We cannot judge either of the feelings or of the characters of men with perfect accuracy from their actions or their appearance…

— Maria Edgeworth

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

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

In a high tech world the cure for the tragic shortcomings and perilous fallacies of human intuition is education, but education in…

— Steven Pinker

Probability is a kind of penance, which God made, suitable, I presume to that state of mediocrity and probationership he has been…

— John Locke

Based on a detailed investigation of all the facts and supported by the testimony of the surviving Japanese leaders involved, it is…

— Paul Nitze

But the stupidity which is common to all such "explanations" is, of course, simply that of proceeding as though the merits of…

— David Stove

... the novelist is bound by the reasonable possibilities, not the probabilities, of his culture.

— Flannery O'Connor

The province of faith begins where probabilities cease and sight and sense fail.

— George Muller

Fourth Law of Thermodynamics: If the probability of success is not almost one, then it is damn near zero.

— David R. Ellis

Just the more people you talk to, the higher the probability is you'll get something that's really one of a kind.

— John Wilson

Digital television is no longer a probability, it is a certainty.

— Tessa Jowell

I think the probability of a supernatural creator existing is very very low,

— Richard Dawkins

“You, dear reader, have now two accounts to choose between and there can be no doubt which is most probable.”

— Alasdair Gray

When asked what he meant by a miracle: Oh, anything with a probability of less than 20%.

— Enrico Fermi

“Every other question has an answer to why. Only probability is inexplicable.”

— Scott Adams

“bottom of the list. No one there has a probability over ten percent. I’ve got a couple who hit low”

— J.D. Robb

Misunderstanding of probability may be the greatest of all impediments to scientific literacy.

— Stephen Jay Gould

Consider nothing impossible, then treat possiblities as probabilities.

— Charles Dickens

Imagination is a good horse to carry you over the ground - not a flying carpet to set you free from probability.

— Robertson Davies

If a guy tells me the probability of failure is 1 in 100,000, I know he's full of crap.

— Richard P. Feynman

Scientists are stuck in this belief that we tell people probabilities, not absolute answers.

— Stephen Schneider

Wherever you observe persecution, there is more than a probability that truth lies on il the persecuted side.

— Hugh Latimer