Contrary Quote by Aristotle

“An unlikely event is likely to happen because there are so many unlikely events that could happen.”

— Per Bak

“One way to express the answer is that it might happen by 'chance'. But 'chance' is just a word expressing ignorance. It means 'determined…

— Richard Dawkins

“Probability is just that: probable. Nothing is certain.”

— Holly Jackson

The probable is what usually happens.

— Aristotle

It is a part of probability that many improbable things will happen.

— Aristotle

“There’s a big difference between probability and outcome. Probable things fail to happen—and improbable things happen—all the time.” That”

— Howard Marks

“A distinguished writer [Siméon Denis Poisson] has thus stated the fundamental definitions of the science: 'The probability of an event is the reason we…

— George Boole

The word 'chance' then expresses only our ignorance of the causes of the phenomena that we observe to occur and to succeed one another…

— Pierre-Simon Laplace

Even very low-probability events can, and indeed do, occur.

— Gavin Extence

“What men call chance is simply their ignorance of causes; if the statement that something had happened by chance were to mean that it…

— René Guénon

Chance is a word void of sense; nothing can exist without a cause.

— Voltaire

That which is impossible and probable is better than that which is possible and improbable.

— Aristotle