Available Quote by Benoit Mandelbrot

I like the probability of the impossible.

— Nicolas Roeg

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

I am fully assured, that no general method for the solution of questions in the theory of probabilities can be established which does not…

— George Boole

Consider nothing impossible, then treat possiblities as probabilities.

— Charles Dickens

In its efforts to learn as much as possible about nature, modern physics has found that certain things can never be "known" with certainty.…

— Richard P. Feynman

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

Probability theory is nothing but common sense reduced to calculation.

— Pierre-Simon Laplace

“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

If we look at the way the universe behaves, quantum mechanics gives us fundamental, unavoidable indeterminacy, so that alternative histories of the universe can…

— Murray Gell-Mann

It was our use of probability theory as logic that has enabled us to do so easily what was impossible for those who thought…

— Edwin Thompson Jaynes

It is impossible to trap modern physics into predicting anything with perfect determinism because it deals with probabilities from the outset.

— Arthur Eddington

“It is probably better to realize that the probability concept is in a sense subjective, that it is always based on uncertain knowledge, and…

— Richard P. Feynman