Probability is not about the odds, but about the belief in the existence of an alternative outcome, cause, or motive. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
It is dangerous to attach probability zero to anything other than a logical impossibility. — Dennis Lindley Copy Share Image
First get a clear notion of what you desire to accomplish and then in all probability you will succeed in doing it. — Henry Maudslay Copy Share Image
Everything is allowable in literature, but what is not allowable in criticism is objection on the grounds of probability. — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
The probability that the bowman's arrow hits the deer does not lie in the arrow or the deer. It lies in the… — Bart Kosko Copy Share Image
and realized that death was not only a permanent probability, as he had always believed, but an immediate reality. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
Most people think the Iraq war has increased the probability of an attack. However, it's difficult to put this aspect into financial… — Joseph Stiglitz Copy Share Image
Even if we could be certain that one of the world's religions were perfectly true, given the sheer number of conflicting faiths… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
All that belongs to human understanding, in this deep ignorance and obscurity, is to be sceptical, or at least cautious, and not… — David Hume Copy Share Image
The probability of a fatal nuclear detonation is greater now than at any time during the Cold War. As the Russian military… — Alan Cranston Copy Share Image
There is no reason to regard God as immune from consideration along the spectrum of probabilities. And there is certainly no reason… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Leadership both projects to the future and reflects upon the past. It bursts with possibilities, flaunts peculiarities, and occasionally defies probabilities. — Marcia Whicker Copy Share Image
No man will be found in whose mind airy notions do not sometimes tyrannize, and force him to hope or fear beyond… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to… — Hannah Arendt 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
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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
The artist reserves the right to remove a blot on the landscape, to change positions of things, to suit his composition, providing… — Walter J. Phillips Copy Share Image
Why couldn't she have this, just enjoy this, without creating obstacles, digging up problems, worrying about mistakes, about tomorrow's? Why let the… — Nora Roberts Copy Share Image
Fame, we may understand, is no sure test of merit, but only a probability of such; it is an accident, not a… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
In trials of fact, by oral testimony, the proper inquiry is not whether is it possible that the testimony may be false,… — Simon Greenleaf Copy Share Image
There may be aliens in our Milky Way galaxy, and there are billions of other galaxies. The probability is almost certain that… — Buzz Aldrin Copy Share Image
Ultimately you want to optimize championship probability over some window. But if you literally take that to the logical extreme, you would… — Daryl Morey 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
The highest historical probability can be adduced in support of the proposition that, if it were possible to annihilate the Bible, and… — Edward Everett Copy Share Image
Consider the case of a person who holds a view with probability 1. Then coherence says that it is no use having… — Dennis Lindley Copy Share Image
You must maximize the probability that someone shows up at front door of your store or website and ends up with a… — Drew Houston Copy Share Image
The greatest threat now is a 9/11 occurring with a group of terrorists armed not with airline tickets and box cutters, but… — Dick Cheney Copy Share Image
The true power is in the imagination which dares to speculate upon that which is not yet. The imagination, backed by great… — Seth Copy Share Image
Wisdom - meaning judgment acting on experience, common sense, available knowledge, and a decent appreciation of probability. — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
If WE claim only reasonable probability, it will be as much as men who love the truth can ever at any given… — William James Copy Share Image
The probability that we will get into a car accident is a million times higher than the probability we will suffer as… — Pavel Durov Copy Share Image
...99 percent confident that the world really was getting warmer and that there was a high degree of probability that it was… — James Hansen Copy Share Image
On the relationship side, if you teach people to respond actively and constructively when someone they care about has a victory, it… — Martin Seligman Copy Share Image
“The probability of life originating from accident is comparable to the probability of the Unabridged Dictionary resulting from an explosion in a… — Edwin Conklin Copy Share Image
