Probability Quotes · Page 8

The true Logic for this world is the Calculus of Probabilities, which takes account of the magnitude of the probability.

— James Clerk Maxwell

Opinion is the companion of probability within the medieval epistemology.

— Ian Hacking

An ingenious web of probabilities is the surest screen a wise man can place between himself and the truth.

— George Eliot

I'm trying to construct a world that maximises the probability that SpaceX continues its mission without me.

— Elon Musk

The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe…

— Abraham Lincoln

The consequences of an act affect the probability of its occurring again.

— B. F. Skinner

We make investment decisions based on our evaluation of the most profitable combination of probabilities.

— Warren Buffett

As for a future life, every man must judge for himself between conflicting vague probabilities.

— Charles Darwin

“The probability to follow your dreams and then struggle is close to one, but the probability to win for sure is close…

— Shivam Chaudhary

“If we parallelize quantum mechanics with reality, then we should consider more information than what we perceive as probable and as reality.”

— Maria Karvouni

The probability I knock out Chael Sonnen is very big. Man, everybody knows his game. He is never going to take me…

— Wanderlei Silva

In the beginning there were only probabilities. The universe could only come into existence if someone observed it. It does not matter…

— Anonymous

Mental Management is the process of maximising the probability of having a consistent mental performance, under pressure, on demand

— Lanny Bassham

“​It's Hard, Not to Fail, but, there is Always a Chance of Success. Of course, there is No Chance of Success, if…

— Vineet Raj Kapoor

A reasonable scale of probability-what is likely-forbids believing a whole range of imaginative possibilities, even though we do not know anything for…

— Jennifer Michael Hecht

It is profitable wisdom to know when we have done enough: Much time and pains are spared in not flattering ourselves against…

— William Penn

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

We have to deal with this new type of threat in a way we haven’t yet defined. . . . With a…

— Dick Cheney

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

“I am no friend of probability theory, I have hated it from the first moment when our dear friend Max Born gave…

— Erwin Schrödinger

The reality, as I have come to understand it, is that the future is not fixed, and that therefore it cannot be…

— Steven Forrest

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

It would be so weird if we knew just as much as we needed to know to answer all the questions of…

— George Saunders

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

I believe that we do not know anything for certain, but everything probably.

— Christiaan Huygens

Reason can get you to probability, but only commitment can get you to certainty.

— Anonymous

“If I had stayed working in Florida, there is a high probability I would have died in hurricane Ian.”

— Steven Magee

We often regret we did not do otherwise, when that very otherwise would, in all probability, have done for us.

— Charles Caleb Colton

In no other branch of mathematics is it so easy for experts to blunder as in probability theory.

— Martin Gardner

The entrepreneurial mind-set is that risk is the heightened probability that there is a big range of possible outcomes.

— Heidi Roizen

I don’t mind the low probability of success, but it better be impactful if we do succeed.

— Vinod Khosla

Many modern philosophers claim that probability is relation between an hypothesis and the evidence for it.

— Ian Hacking

Lies, fables and romances must needs be probable, but not the truth and foundation of our faith.

— Johann Georg Hamann

“Le vrai peut quelquefois n'être pas vraisemblable. (At times truth may not seem probable)”

— Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

Death is always a constant possibility and probability and of course an inevitability, as well.

— Cornel West

Probability and expectation are not the same. Its probability and probability times the pay off.

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

The price of freedom is the probability of crime. The price of protection is the probability of slavery.

— Dan Geer

The laws of probability, so true in general, so fallacious in particular.

— Edward Gibbon

“Everything in our life is a probability apart from two facts – Birth and Death”

— Anupama Garg

The most important questions of life are indeed, for the most part, really only problems of probability.

— Pierre-Simon Laplace