Average Quote by Arthur Conan Doyle

“While the individual man is an insoluble puzzle, in the aggregate he becomes a mathematical certainty. You can, for example, never foretell what any…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

...while the individual man is an insoluble puzzle, in the aggregate he becomes a mathematical certainty.

— Arthur Conan Doyle

“Individuals vary, but percentages remain constant. So says the statistician.”

— Anonymous

The true and the approximately true are apprehended by the same faculty; it may also be noted that men have a sufficient natural instinct…

— Aristotle

“Impossible odds require improbable people”

— J.A. Young

You know the law of averages says: Anything will happen that can

— Steve Goodman

I believe the calculation of the quantity of probability might be improved to a very useful and pleasant speculation, and applied to a great…

— John Arbuthnot

Whatever way uncertainty is approached, probability is the only sound way to think about it.

— Dennis Lindley

Every individual forms his own estimate of himself and that basic estimate goes far toward determining what he becomes.

— Norman Vincent Peale

I've come loaded with statistics, for I've noticed that a man can't prove anything without statistics. No man can.

— Mark Twain

There are no absolute certainties in this universe. A man must try to whip order into a yelping pack of probabilities, and uniform success…

— Jack Vance

Sometimes the probabilities are very close to certainties, but they're never really certainties

— Murray Gell-Mann