Probabilities Quotes

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The most important thing in life is to stop saying 'I wish' and start saying 'I will.' Consider nothing impossible, then treat possibilities as probabilities. — David Copperfield
The moment of enlightenment is when a person's dreams of possibilities become images of probabilities. — Vic Braden
We know the laws of trial and error, of large numbers and probabilities. We know that these laws are part of the mathematical and mechanical… — Albert Claude
In the beginning there were only probabilities. The universe could only come into existence if someone observed it. It does not matter that the observers… — Martin Rees
The office of science is not to record possibilities; but to ascertain what nature does ... As far as Darwinism deals with mere arguments of… — Louis Agassiz
As for a future life, every man must judge for himself between conflicting vague probabilities. — Charles Darwin
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 sort… — Pierre-Simon Laplace
Contrary to the popular notion that only creationism relies on the supernatural, evolutionism must as well, since the probabilities of random formation of life are… — Chandra Wickramasinghe
A man must study general conditions, to seize them so as to be able to anticipate probabilities. — Jesse Lauriston Livermore
Most, probably, of our decisions to do something positive, the full consequences of which will be drawn out over many days to come, can only… — John Maynard Keynes
Probability is expectation founded upon partial knowledge. A perfect acquaintance with all the circumstances affecting the occurrence of an event would change expectation into certainty,… — George Boole
All business proceeds on beliefs, or judgements of probabilities, and not on certainties. — Charles William Eliot
Coincidences, in general, are great stumbling blocks in the way of that class of thinkers who have been educated to know nothing of the theory… — Edgar Allan Poe
Certainty is not biologically possible. We must learn (and teach our children) to tolerate the unpleasantness of uncertainty. Science has given us the language and… — Robert A. Burton
An easterly is the most disagreeable wind in Lyme BayÂ â€” Lyme Bay being that largest bite from the underside of England's outstretched southwestern legÂ… — John Fowles
The province of faith begins where probabilities cease and sight and sense fail. — George Muller
Given our inevitably incomplete knowledge about key structural aspects of an everchanging economy and the sometimes asymmetric costs or benefits of particular outcomes, a central… — Alan Greenspan
If an event can be produced by a number n of different causes, the probabilities of the existence of these causes, given the event (prises… — Pierre-Simon Laplace
It has been pointed out already that no knowledge of probabilities, less in degree than certainty, helps us to know what conclusions are true, and… — John Maynard Keynes
The possibilities and probabilities are all we have to work with in medicine, though. What we are drawn to in this imperfect science, what we… — Atul Gawande

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