Balance Quote by Arthur Conan Doyle

The scientific imagination always restrains itself within the limits of probability.

— Thomas Huxley

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

— Aristotle

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

The theory of probabilities is at bottom nothing but common sense reduced to calculus; it enables us to appreciate with exactness that which accurate…

— Pierre-Simon Laplace

The theory of probabilities is basically only common sense reduced to a calculus. It makes one estimate accurately what right-minded people feel by a…

— Pierre-Simon Laplace

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

— Stephen Schneider

Where observation is concerned, chance favors only the prepared mind.

— Louis Pasteur

Chance determines our lives in important ways.

— Gerhard Richter

“The probabilitation of possibilities is the mother of many unrealistic ideas,uninformative decisions,inappropriate measures and unfair actions because most of the times we were approximate…

— Mpho Leteng

Chance is a kind of god, for it preserves many things which we do not observe.

— Menander

It is the concept of likelihood that a real understanding of probability resides, and we must learn how to measure it.

— Anthony Stafford Beer

“People who can accurately sort probabilities from possibilities are generally strong at “practical thinking”;”

— Ray Dalio