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

“Impossible odds require improbable people”

— J.A. Young

“Outside of textbooks and casinos, probability almost never presents itself as a mathematical problem or a brain teaser.”

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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

— Anonymous

“Because these calculations generate precise numbers for an uncertain risk, they produce an illusory certainty.”

— Gerd Gigerenzer

Of Belief Human mathematics, so to speak, like the length of life, are subject to the doctrine of chances.

— William Godwin

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

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

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

— Norman Vincent Peale

“The certainty of mathematics depends on its complete abstract generality.”

— Alfred North Whitehead

“I know that the chances for success are slim. [...] But odds are mathematical formulas calculated to give people a reason not to try.”

— Jude Watson